National Operations Room NOR

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National Operations Room (NOR)

• Focus on Divisional Level Monitoring

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Mission of the National Operations Room (NOR)

• Focal point to collect, analyze and present
  development information to policy makers
• Monitor national and sub national level
  development work

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• National Operations Room
• Development Management Information System

NOR

• Thematic Monitoring
• Economic Policy Reforms
• (EPRP) Regaining
• Sri Lanka (RSL), PRS MDG, RRR
• Sector Performance
• Macro Economic performance

• Project Monitoring
• On - going Projects
• Pipeline Projects
• Completed Projects
• B.O.I. Pipe line Projects

• Performance Monitoring
• Line Ministries
• Provincial Councils
• Decentralized budget (D.C.B.)
• Divisional level development
• Special Programmes

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Divisional Level Monitoring

• Why we select divisional level monitoring
• In the administrative hierarchy the division
  represents the lowest level
• Variety of development activities are taking
  place at this level.
• No adequate monitoring and co-ordination
  mechanism at present to assess the performance at
  this level.
• As such M/PDI initiated action to conduct a
  diagnostic survey to identify priority
  development problems in the divisional level
  covering all 324 Divisions Island wide.

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Identification of Development Priorities and
problems

• This diagnostic survey was carried out to
  identify priority development problems,
  potentials and take corrective measures at the
  divisional level.
• And also to get involved all the stakeholders,
  I.e. Public, Private and NGO sectors in
  formulating and monitoring development projects
  at divisional level
• Accordingly a questionnaire was prepared
  covering almost all the sectors as given below at
  the divisional level.

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Sectors covered in the diagnostic survey
Questionnaire

• Education facilities
• Health
• Road and Transport
• Electricity Energy
• Agriculture
• Livestock
• Fisheries
• Plantation
• Irrigation
• Land

• Drinking Water
• Industrial Development
• Vocational Training
• Environment
• Entrepreneurship
• Housing
• Population
• Employment / Religious etc
• Communication
• Financial Services
• Private Sector Information Education/Health/Transp
  ort etc.
• Tourism

• This questionnaire was prepared in consultation
  with Divisional Secretaries and other relevant
  stakeholders

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Divisional Secretary DivisionEllaBadulla
DistrictPriority Development Problems Identified
in the Division

• No proper coordination and monitoring mechanism
  existing in the division to monitor the
  performance of the public and private sector
  development projects
• Insufficient drinking water supply
• No proper programmes are implemented to address
  the problems faced by the rural people living
  away from the main roads in the interior areas.

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Education

• Key Issues
• Shortage of Teachers 36 Nos
• math's 4, Science 08, English 03, Arts 8,
  Commerce 2, Primary 10, PTI. 1
• Shortage of Physical Resources
• schools need class rooms - 02
• schools need Science lab - 03
• schools need libraries - 19
• schools need play grounds -10

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Health Sector

• Key Issues
• Non existence of Divisional Health Director's
  Office
• Lack of basic facilities for clinics such as
  water, electricity etc.
• Non Availability of safe Drinking Water
• No rural hospital\No basic facilities to control
  communicable deceases.
• Shortage of Health staff RDHS, MOH, Public Health
  Nurse, Public Health Worker

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Road and Transport

• Key Issues
• No proper maintenance of roads
• Lack of funds for repairs and maintenance of
  roads
• No of roads need immediate rehabilitation -5 (15
  km)
• No of roads without transport facilities due to
  deterioration of roads - 5
• No of villages that doesnt have motorable roads
  - 15
• No of villages in need of at least wooden bridges
  - 5

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Electricity and Energy

• Key Issues
• Illegal consumption of power
• (number of cases reported 18)
• Lack of funds for providing electricity to remote
  areas.
• No of houses without electricity - 528
• No of houses without meters - 150
• No of consumers affected low voltage - 20

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Agriculute

• Key Issues
• No reasonable price for vegetable
• No proper transport facilities and marketing
  centers
• Problems regarding middle men

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livestock

• Key Issues
• No milk collecting centre or chilling centre
• High cost of production and low income
• Poor farmers dont have investment capabilities
• Non availability of animal food sales outlets
• Non availability of hybrid varieties
• Insufficient extension staff and transport
  facilities

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Plantation

• Key Issues
• Scarcity of lands with proper ownership to
  cultivate
• Farmers are not interested in cultivating
  additional crops other than tea
• Marketing problems due to lack of transport
  facilities
• Non availability of loan facilities
• Shortage of nurseries and plants
• Shortage of Extension workers and insufficient
  facilities for them.

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Irrigation

• Key Issues
• Non rehabilitation of irrigation schemes. (125
  anicuts)
• Non Rehabilitation of minor tanks
• Lack of funds for rehabilitation of tanks and
  irrigation schemes
• Inadequate involvement of farmer organizations

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Land

• Key Issues
• No regularized land ownership. There are 1134
  such families.
• Encroachment of lands. There are 1584 such
  encroaches or illegal occupants in the crown
  lands.
• Scarcity of crown lands
• No of landless families 482
• Cultivable land but not cultivated due to
  shortage of water - Low land - 37 ha.
• High land -
  556 ha.

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Industrial Development

• Key Issues
• Non affordability of modern equipment
• Inadequate credit facilities
• Difficulty in obtaining technical /Vocational
  training
• No proper marketing facilities

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Environment

• Key Issues
• Illegal felling of timber
• Lack of dumping areas for garbage disposal
• 40 of the people dont have proper lavatory
  facilities
• Soil erosion
• Metal quarry dust
• Illegal constructions in the reservation areas.

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Housing

• Key Issues
• Lack of capital to invest for housing
• Inadequate land for houses and no proper
  ownership for land
• 650 Houses are temporary or semi permanent

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Population Employment and Social Security

• Key Issues
• No of Samurdhi beneficiary families 5333
• No of Public assistant recipients 2100
• No of disable persons - 619
• No unemployed - 9425
• No of unlicensed liquor sales points - 65
• No of monthly incidence on consumption of illegal
  liquor and drugs 7
• No of suicide cases reported last year - 16

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Communication

• Key Issues
• Number of Post offices Without Telephone
  Facilities 2 out of 10
• Number of People Waiting for new Telephone
  Connections 357
• No Connectivity Facility for Mobile Phones

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Monitoring Mechanism

• It is a web based information system
• Objective is to have information on line
• Data collected at the source - D.S Division
• Information is available for anybody anywhere

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Pilot Project

• Information is being collected for all the
  divisions
• Nuwara Eliya District has been selected to link
  online with NOR as a pilot project
• Software ,hardware provided and necessary
  training has been given
• Developed a monitoring format to monitor the
  performance . Initial information collected used
  as a baseline data and thereafter monitoring to
  be done biannually or once in 6 months

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Benefits Expected

• Since division is the lowest level of
  administration set up proper link can be maintain
  with the division
• Once we identified priority development problems
  , the future plans can be decided accordingly.
• It can avoid ad hoc planning existing at present
  and investment can direct to the identified
  problem areas.
• Policy reforms can be taken based on the
  divisional information
• Provide interaction with citizens
• Improving Transparency , accountability and good
  governance.