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Notes

1. Ethnicity, religion and other cleavages may be natural to human society; they lead to crisis when they are exploited by politicians or power-seeking elites.
2. The Citizens’ Needs Assessment methodology seeks to include community demands in the State’s planning and budgeting process.

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