Variables 11 and 12 in Table 1 reveal that 17 NSOs reported lack of planning for high performance in their sports and 19 NSOs show no formal planning for increasing the mass participation rates in their sports. Furthermore, the majority of the NSOs sampled seem to function with informal bureaucratic procedures since their internal rules and regulations manuals either remain to be compiled or have not been revised according to contemporary administrative and technical needs (variable 10, Table