Breaking Out of Policy Silos

In the context of the economic recovery and public budget cuts, policy silos and fragmented short-term policy interventions have become luxuries that our economies can no longer afford. Government intervenes in a myriad of ways at the local level, and rarely are these interventions co-ordinated effectively. Most of us are familiar with policy silos. Such divisions are often taken for granted, blamed on historical working relationships (it has always been like that) and organisational cultures (t