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Integrating NPoAs with Existing National Plans: Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes

Integrating NPoAs with Existing National Plans: Country Experiences

Identification and Tracking of APRM Projects Within National Plans

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Integrating NPoAs with Existing National Plans:

Objectives, Strategies, Policies,

and Outcomes

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies,

and Outcomes

two Overarching Issues

harmonising the Institutional framework

harmonising the planning cycles

overarching issues

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and

Outcomes

The NGC could be placed within the principle institution in the national planning framework

The NGC will have influence at the heart of the national planning system

The performance of the NGC is likely to be affected by the authority, capacity, competence, and organisational culture of the existing national planning system

institutional framework-1


Outcomes

The NGC could be included in the national planning architecture as an independent body

The NGC will have to contest for influence with other players in the national planning framework

Some of the NGC’s time and resources will be spent on participating in the processes of the national planning system, rather than working on overseeing the APRM-NPoA



Outcomes

Representatives of some (or all) major national planning institutions allocated places on the NGC

There is a danger that the NGC will be more influenced by the other members of the national planning system than it will be able to influence them.

The inter-institutional rivalries of the members of the national planning system may be played out in the NGC.



Outcomes

The planning cycle of the npoa often differed from that of the preexisting national plan(s)

In some cases this allowed the NPoA to inform the national plan.

In the event that all the objectives of the NPoA were not synchronised with the PRSP, the annual budgets were.

In other instances the NPoA was not harmonised with the national plan, but the projects of the NPoA were sometimes incorporated int o the MTEF

planning cycles


Outcomes

Challenge-1: harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: overlapping development projects

challenge-2: harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: new development projects

challenge-3: harmonising the npoa with pre-existing national plans: the governance aspects

options


Outcomes

countries commonly have several development plans being implemented simultaneously.

Examples:

A Strategic National Development Plan

PRSPMDGsHIPCMCA AGOA

•thus harmonising plans not new to African planners

•harmonising the npoa with pre-existing national plans had to resolve three scenarios

the plans


and Outcomes

• Challenge-1:

harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: overlapping development projects

options


and Outcomes

the more the npoa overlapped with pre-exiting national plans, the easier it is to harmonise the two

objectives


and Outcomes

the more the npoa shared the same projects as pre-exiting national plans, the easier it was to harmonise the two

no harmonisation was required

objectives


and Outcomes

• challenge-2:

harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: new development projects

options


and Outcomes

option-1: cluster aprm-npoa development projects as a separate package of projects to be managed by the responsible mdas

option-2: distribute aprm-npoa development projects the responsible mdas within context of national plan

objectives


and Outcomes

• challenge-3:

harmonising the npoa with pre-existing national plans: the governance aspects

options


Outcomes

the challenge: to harmonise the governance framework of the aprm-npoa with those of the pre-existing development plans, if any

aprm as governance


Outcomes

the questionnaire sets the stage for questions about the main governance focus areas

the outcome of the initial self-assessments set the stage for the npoa, and future self assessments

the npoa determines the choices of objectives, strategies, policies, and outcomes

aprm as governance

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Integrating NPoAs with Existing National Plans:

Country Experiences


Outcomes

the task of harmonisation tended to fall on a strategic ministry in particular one responsible for planning

Ghana

Uganda

aprm as governance


Outcomes

ghana had a Growth and poverty reduction strategy GPRS-II which was completed in november 2005.

The self assessment was conducted between May 2004 to March 2005

the npoa was prepared from september 2004 to may 2005

GPRS-II was modified to include the npoa.

ghana


Outcomesghana

GPRS II NPOA

1. Continued Macroeconomic Stability 1. Democracy and Good Political Governance

2. Private Sector Competitiveness 2. Economic Governance and Management

3. Human Resource Development 3. Corporate Governance

4. Good Governance and Civic Responsibility

4. Socio-Economic Development


Outcomes

The Poverty poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs).

Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) 1997/8 to 2007/8 extended to 2010

aprm-npoa produced 2009

NDP launched 2010

uganda


Outcomes

Objectives of NDP

National Vision of Growth, Employment and Socio-economic Transformation for Prosperity

to address the structural features of the economy by identifying

The most binding constraints limiting growth in Uganda

Mixture of economic growth and poverty eradication

Mixture of market led and state led interventions, including

business approach to service delivery

to be financed through increase in tax base, efficiency gains, PPP,

capital markets, DPs)

Proposed sectoral interventions

uganda


Outcomes

APRM was completed before the NDP, so the latter was informed by the former

those preparing the ndp examined each objective of each thematic area of the npoa and sought to capture it and make it a part of the ndp, if possible.

as a result most of the objectives of the npoa were included in the ndp

those that were not came under the democracy and political governance theme:

reversal of the decision to remove the presidential term limit

review of the representation of special interest groups

uganda


Outcomes

All main sections of the national plan should have a clear governance component where the agreed governance indicators and targets are set out.

content overlap


Outcomes

Work is undertaken to ensure that the governance indicators of the APRM-NPoA and pre-existing national plans conform one with the other.

In principle the NPoA preparation process should have ensured that this was already the case, but it may be that such a harmonisation will have to wait until the next cycle of the national plan in order to make it possible.

content overlap


Outcomes

The direction of the changes deemed necessary to bring this about, should be in the direction of the more demanding or higher standard.

The lead MDAs of the national plan, should also be the lead MDAs for the corresponding section of the APRM-NPoA.

content overlap

3.

Identification and Tracking of APRM Projects Within

National Plans

Identifying APRM projects Within National Plans

Running plans simultaneously is a common feature of african planning

tagging aprm projects within plan undertaken by the MDAs and coordinating ministry

Tracking APRM Projects and Programmes

Requirement that MDAs send regular reports to NGC to show their implementation performance

MDAs can copy in NGC as they report to strategic ministry

If ngc is represented within planning system then it will as a matter of course have access to this information

institutional

Tracking APRM Projects and Programmes

Reports from local government bodies

Participatory monitoring

District Oversight committees (ghana)

Surveys of public opinion on APRM implementation

institutional

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