facilitate knowledge-pooling and simplity decision making processes. No single institution public or private
has knowledge necessary to decide what service would work better for the region. This knowledge is often
a mix of centrally owned strategic notions and local key information .
In this framework , facilitating information sharing and mutual trust is critical to combine national and
subnational as well as public and private instruments to respond to the service needs of different areas.
In Scotland new relationships were culticated with local government that was founded on mutual understanding
and trust ; public agencies were streamlined to allow local government to work out how to achive their
outcomes. After the recent restructuring in the USDA ,each state director became a 'GEO ' of the respective office with increased flexibility and autonomy in decision - making .USDA's reforms also aimed to revialise the institutional
arrangement by making it "smaller" and "leaner" with a moe "market oriented " focus.