8. I have restricted myself to those factors affecting policy decisions related to:
- the level of funding from government budgetary sources;
- the proportion of expenditure on staff and non-staff items; - cost recovery; and
- privatization.
9. As is well-known the dividing line between political factors on the one hand, and economic and social factors on the other is blurred in most instances. So I have not attempted to make that distinction in listing the determinant factors. Neither have I attempted to attach weights to the different factors to indicate the order of priority which DVS may have to give in their action to influence policy. Perhaps these are points that need to be given further attention.
10. In this part of the paper I identify and list those factors which, according to my judgement, have something to do with the policy variables indicated (Figures 1 to 4). This is by no means exhaustive. It is here that I also make some judgement about the latitude which DVS have in bringing about favourable or desirable changes in the major policy variables (which they cannot directly change) affecting the financing and/or restructuring of livestock services. The phrase "potential DVS leverage" is meant to attach some qualitative measure of how wide or narrow this latitude can be vis-a-vis the determinant factors. In order not to crowd the presentation I have deferred the discussion of "strong-leverage-factors" and possible instruments available to DVS to the following section.
