GOVERNANCE SECRETARIAT - ZAMBIA

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GOVERNANCE SECRETARIAT - ZAMBIA

• Country-led Governance Assessment Sharing
  Experience
• and Increasing Political Accountability
• 02-05 November 2009
• Windhoek, Namibia
• PRESENTATION ON GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENTS FOR
  MONITORING NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS -
  CHALLENGES FACING THE USE OF NATIONAL STATISTICAL
  OFFICES
• By
• VANNY HAMPONDELA
• Email vanny_at_governance.gov.zm
• Monitoring and Evaluation/Information Specialist
• Governance Secretariat
• Zambia

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Need for National Development Plans

• To guide Development
• To identify priority needs
• To optimise the use of resources

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Governance Assessments for Monitoring National
Development Plans (NDPs)

• To facilitate effective reporting, the Governance
  Monitoring is paramount.
• To track progress on the implementation of
  programmes and activities in the NDP.
• To provide management and other stakeholder with
  information aimed at assessing the performance of
  the nation on Governance.
• To enable centralising of governance data for
  easy retrieval and analysis by users.
• To guide management on areas that need adjustment
  as well as supplementary or reduction of
  resources.

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Zambias experience on Monitoring of Governance
under the National Development Plan

• The Government of the Republic of Zambia launched
  the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) for
  2006-2010.
• One of the key components of the plan is the
  governance programme which concentrates on
  implementation of 5 components

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Components of Governance in FNDP

• Administration of Justice
• Constitutionalism
• Democratisation
• Human Rights
• Accountability and Transparency

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Vision for Zambia

• to become a middle income country by 2030.
• Governance vision
• total adherence to principles of good governance
  by 2030.

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Detailing Governance Chapter

• In order to outlines the details of
  implementation of the FNDP, the Governance
  Secretariat (GS) prepared a Governance Programme
  Document (GPD) to guide implementation
  strategies.

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Institutions under Governance Chapter of FNDP

• The Governance chapter (31) of the FNDP
  identifies fifteen (15) institutions that will
  undertake the implementation of the Governance
  programmes
• The identified institutions deal with various
  aspects of governance.

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Institutions under Governance Chapter of FNDP

• a) The Human Rights Commission
• b) Police Public Complaints Authority
• c) National Assembly of Zambia
• d) Anti-Corruption Commission
• e) Commission for Investigations
• f) Judicial Complaints Authority
• g) Office of the Auditor-General
• h) Judiciary
• i) Ministry of Justice
• j) Central Statistical Office
• k) Directorate of Public Prosecutions
• l) Legal Aid Board
• m) Electoral Commission of Zambia
• n) Office of the Vice President (Parliamentary
  Business Division) and
• o) Ministry of Finance and National Planning

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OTHER GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS

• Since governance is a crosscutting issue, there
  are many other institutions that deal with
  governance matters (but are not specifically
  under chapter 31 of FNDP). Some of them are as
  follows
• Decentralisation Secretariat
• Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services
• Gender in Development Division
• Public Safety and Order
• Ministry of Youth and Child development
• Min of Community Development Social Services
• Civil Society Organisations

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HOW DO WE GET ALL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
INVOLVED? Formation of committees under GSAG
Governance Sector Advisory Group (GSAG)
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Challenges facing the use of National Statistics
Offices

• Field of Governance is alien to many developing
  countries. Low understanding of Governance
  terminologies
• Most National Statistics Offices do not have
  insight on Governance issues.
• Low capacities to formulate governance indicators
  effectively.
• Inadequate resources for collection of data
  (survey) Surveys are not done on schedule

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Situation on supply of Governance information
MoJ
MoCDSS
ACC
MoFNP
GIDD
JCA
CFI
Province
NAZ
MoHCW
etc
PPCA
MoLSS
MoLGH
OAG
CO
CSO
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Desired Situation for Governance Assessment
Framework

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Advantages of using National Statistics Offices

• Easy institutionalisation of the process.
• Legally authorised institution to conduct surveys
  in the nation. (The Central Statistical Office
  (CSO) is the only Institution mandated under the
  Census and Statistics Act, Chapter 127 to produce
  official statistics for the country).
• Experience in logical flow and formulation of
  survey questions.
• NSOs understand the local environment better
  than outsiders.
• Coverage of lager samples during surveys
• Centralisation of governance data.

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CONCLUSION

• Governance Assessment should be everyones
  concern in order to establish vibrant National
  Statistics Offices.
• Since Governance is a new territory for most
  African countries, there is need for capacity
  building in order for officers to understand
  handle its monitoring effectively.

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• THANK YOU