admin
Harare Bureau
THE government has crafted a new monitoring and evaluation policy to facilitate effective implementation of its medium term economic blue blueprint, Zim-Asset with all key public officials set to be trained in this regard.
The National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy is anchored on an integrated results based management methodology, chief secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda said during the official launch at Pandhari Hotel yesterday.
This comes after the realisation that the biggest challenge facing the government is the lack of sustainable implementation of its policies since independence in 1980.
Policies implemented since 1980 include Growth with Equity (1981), the Transitional Development Plan in 1982 and the five-year National Development Plan in 1986. The second year of the five-year National Development Plan was abandoned in favour of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) in 1991.
After that there was Zimbabwe Programme for Economic and Social Transformation (Zimprest) in 1996, Vision 2020 in 1999 after the devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar in November 1997, the Millennium Economic Recovery Programme (MERP) in 2000 among others.
“The weakest link in the implementation of policies, programmes and projects has been absence of a national monitoring and evaluation policy to give guidance and credence to the achievements of results through correct diagnosis,” according to the policy document
It is believed that the achievements, that brought socio-economic transformation, growth and development, could have been up-scaled on a more sustainable way if the government operations were guided by results based framework.
According to analysts, the problem which the government has been facing is the failure in linking up the vision with the reality on the ground.
Online Reporter