COUNTRY SELF ASESSMENT PROCESS

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COUNTRY SELF ASESSMENT PROCESS THE ROLE OF
STAKEHOLDERS

• By
• AYODELE ADERINWALE

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Objective To improve governance in four thematic
areas, namely

• The political focus area (to strengthen
  stability)
• The economic focus area (to promote growth and
  sustainable development)
• The social focus area (to promote social reforms
  and human development)
• The corporate focus area (to improve corporate
  governance).

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Good governance represents

• An internal expectation
• A basic condition for development
• A claim by the people and a wish by the
  continents leaders to whom we precisely owe the
  creation and operation of a mechanism likely to
  reinforce transparency and promote partnership
  between the countries of the continent.

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NEPAD GOOD GOVERNANCE

• Good governance and the best way to implement it
  in each country is one of NEPADs primary
  objectives as well as to accelerate sub-regional
  and continental economic integration.

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Self-assessment process is

• Global (the 4 focus areas of governance)
• Rigorous (normative frame) and
• Transparent and participative (Civil Society).

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BASIC STEPS

• Preparation of Country Self Assessment Report
  (CSAR) and a National Programme of Action (NPoA)
  under the leadership of the National Focal Point
  
• There must be a validation exercise before both
  CSAR NPoA is finalized
• Country visit by the CRT and consultations to
  reach a consensus especially on the most
  difficult issues.

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CSAR

• Desk research is conducted
• Questionnaire administered
• Draft report is produced
• Draft NPoA is generated
• Both draft NPoA and Questionnaire is subject to
  validation by stakeholders
• Final CSAR produced

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VALIDATION

• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO VALIDATE THE REPORT?
• What is being measured in the first place?
• Attitudes? Opinions?
• How should CA be validated? By whom? And withion
  which framework?

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The Validation Process

• The drafting of the report
• Contents of the report
• The gaps in governance identified- how true are
  these? How real are these? How might these be
  corrected?
• How do we validate?
• Can we be involved without invitation?
• What is the framework for validation?

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QUESTIONNAIRE CONTENT, INTENT AND METHODOLOGY

• The questionnaire is not definitive, but
  indicative
• It provides a framework within which we can
  assess our current reality with regard to the
  codes and standards
• We must domesticate sections through modification
  of the questionnaire.

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QUESTIONNAIRE CONTENT, INTENT AND METHODOLOGY

• In practical terms the questionnaire must be
  redrafted for different stakeholders, groups and
  levels of government to ensure relevance,
  comprehensiveness and rigour in application.
• Need to distinguish between objective questions
  and subjective questions dealing with perceptions
  and opinions and possibly recast subjective
  questions in survey format.
• Any section or question that is deleted should be
  explained

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RD Contd.

• Selective empirical approach
• One constitutionally recognised LGA in only one
  of the three Senatorial Districts per State as
  the base sampling unit, which is the designated
  target survey LGA for all the TRIs in the four
  thematic areas of survey
• 2 LGAs per geo-political zone

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Challenges to be subdued

• What criteria should be used in defining the
  stakeholders?
• How do we ensure that the various zones interest
  and issue areas are covered?
• Is it possible to achieve a link between national
  process, state and local government including the
  communities?
• How do you deal with the literacy challenge?

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REVISITING EXPECTED ROLES

• QUESTIONAIRE ADMINISTRATION RESPONSES
• VALIDATION STAGE
• ENGAGEMENT WITH COUNTRY REVIEW TEAM

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DESIGN OF NPOA
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• Thats all folks
• Thanks