General News of Sunday, 19 January 2025
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a fellow of public law and justice at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD), has proposed an initiative to track and assess the performance of government ministers.
According to Prof. Asare, his initiative, dubbed Operation Monitor All Ministers’ Performance & Accountability Mechanism (OMAMPAM), will help set clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the ministers and track their performance to determine their suitability for their roles.
“Those who are performing will become very clear, and those who are not performing will also become very clear. Then the signal will be sent to the president that if a minister hasn’t delivered within the set period, it may be time to bring someone else to do the job,” he stated during an appearance as a guest on TV3’s Key Points on Saturday, January 19, 2025.
He explained that OMAMPAM will be a citizen-led performance-tracking system to monitor the effectiveness of not only ministers but also heads of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
The initiative aims to introduce data-driven governance, transparency, and accountability into the public sector.
Under OMAMPAM, ministers will be assigned KPIs upon appointment, which will be publicly announced. A dedicated mobile application will provide real-time tracking of ministers’ performance, enabling citizens to actively monitor and engage in governance by assessing whether ministers meet their targets.
For instance, the Minister of Agriculture could be tasked with increasing food production by 10% within a year, while the Minister of Education may be assigned a literacy rate improvement target.
The initiative is expected to bring several benefits to Ghana’s governance system, including:
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- Promoting accountability: Making ministers directly responsible for their performance and allowing underperformers to be replaced.
- Enhancing transparency: Public tracking will reduce corruption and inefficiency.
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- Encouraging citizen participation: Ghanaians will have a role in evaluating ministers’ performance.
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- Reducing political patronage: Appointments and retention will be based on competence rather than political connections.
- Fostering performance-oriented governance: Ministers will focus on tangible results rather than political theatrics
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