Coordination and integration: The perpetually elusive grail of governance

David Everatt and Lulu Gwagwa jointly wrote a chapter in Daniel Plaatjies’ book, which itself was an attempt to provide South African case studies, theories and praxis on which to base teaching of governance and development. David and Lulu re-visit their own practice in the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme and (in Lulu’s case) Project Consolidate, in order to try and understand why both horizontal and vertical co-ordination and integration have proved so elusive since 1994, despite whole programmes posited on achieving both in practice.