Nigerians would provide feedback on the performance of government ministries, departments, and agencies based on a comprehensive matrix of 204 deliverables and 888 indicators between 2024 to 2027, Saturday PUNCH observed.
The deliverables comprise various government policies, programmes, and projects.
This followed the Presidency’s launch of the Citizens’ Delivery Tracker on April 8 to provide a “strong feedback loop between citizens and the government.”
The Presidency said the tracker would hold ministers and heads of government agencies accountable against the backdrop of these deliverables and KPIs spread across the eight priority areas of the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
The CDT highlights priority areas ranging from economic stability and infrastructure to social welfare and education, mapping MDAs with specific deliverables and KPIs for 2024 in the short term and 2027 in the long term.
For instance, in reforming the economy to deliver sustained and inclusive growth, the ministries of finance, budget, and national planning, the Presidential Committee on Consumer Credit, and the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee have been tasked with 28 deliverables and 53 indicators among which increasing the Tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 per cent and boosting IGR to the N27.17tn.
The ministries of interior, police affairs, and defense would be assessed based on six deliverables and 65 KPIs, including registering at least 88,000 inmates with National Identity Numbers.
The ministries of power, petroleum resources, solid minerals, and steel development, among others, have been tasked with unlocking energy and natural resources for sustainable development along 27 deliverables and 130 indicators, comprising the production of at least 1.4 million barrels of crude oil per day.
While launching the Tracker in Abuja recently, the President’s Special Adviser on Policy and Coordination, Hadiza Bala-Usman, said the platform “will be constantly modified to enhance ease of use and maintain a strong feedback loop between citizens and the government.”
The modifications will also allow citizens to track the implementation of constituency projects allocated to Senators and members of the House of Representatives.
In arriving at the deliverables and KPIs, Bala-Usman, who also heads the Central Coordination Delivery Unit, said the Unit held numerous bilateral meetings with all the Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, and their respective technical teams for six weeks.
She explained, “The bilateral sessions looked at the mandate of the respective ministries in line with the Presidential Priority Areas and arrived at the final deliverable and KPIs
“For each of these priority areas, we agreed on specific deliverables and developed KPIs, which formed the basis for the performance bond, which all ministers and Permanent Secretaries signed with the President in November 2023.
“These parameters will guide the Quarterly Assessments and Annual Scorecards, which the CDCU is mandated to present to the President.”
The presidential aide also described the CDT as a one-click portal for President Tinubu to view the performance of his ministers in real-time from his office.
At the cabinet retreat for ministers, presidential aides, permanent secretaries, and top government functionaries held in November 2023, President Tinubu said the CDCU would be strengthened to make citizens an integral part of his government’s monitoring and performance management process.
Reacting to the development, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, said “The government is acknowledging the role of citizens as integral stakeholders in monitoring and evaluating performance.
“Nigerians can now monitor what ministers and Heads of Departments and agencies of Government are doing to deliver on the eight priority areas of the administration.”
