.Andrews (2004) suggests that the failures in reform implementation
described earlier are due in part to reformers
focusing too much on technical aspects—trying to ‘copy
whatever is ‘‘best practice’’ in performance-based reforms’
and to reproduce initiatives from other settings—a strategy
which he feels is ‘almost guaranteed to fail’. Andrews believes
that the adaptation of reforms to context is essential: reformers
must focus on expanding reform space by increasing appropriate
authority to collect and use performance information,
increasing acceptance of reform goals by political officials and
managers (including alignment of incentives for reform adoption)
and increasing organizational capacity or ability to
complete PBB reforms such as the development of personnel,
data and accounting systems and other structural supports
(Andrews 2004).