Ministers To Face Quarterly Assessments
Federal Government will begin quarterly assessments of the performance of the 48 ministers in January when their ministries will have received the budget for the 2024 fiscal year.
The Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Ms Hadiza Usman, explained that the annual scorecard would be reviewed during periodic retreats where performances would be assessed against key performance indicators.
Speaking in an interview on TVC television on Tuesday, Usman stated, “We’re looking to commence an assessment of the respective ministries in January 2024. We’re going to have a quarterly assessment of performance which would culminate into an annual scorecard.”
Before that, however, the presidential aide said the Federal Executive Council members would participate in a retreat in early November where the key performance index would be defined and the ministers would sign a performance bond.
“We’re going to have a cabinet retreat in the first week of November where the final details will be hashed with the full cabinet in place with Mr President.
“At the end of it, we’re going to culminate with the performance bond. They’ll be signed by each ministry, every minister, and the Permanent Secretary will sign a performance board with Mr. President,” she explained.
The bond will detail the deliverables each ministry plans to achieve within the one-year 2024 budget cycle.
“That performance bond is what we’re going to use to track the performance of that minister.”
She noted that the Federal Government would prioritise citizens’ engagement to ensure that Nigerians were part of the assessment.
“We’re going to deploy an application, a software, where citizens are able to report back on project-based deliverables that the federal government has committed to doing within the period to 2024.”
“We sat with the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. We have worked effectively to define exactly the deliverables for each ministry.
“And those deliverables are also deliverables that I mentioned cascade to the agencies of government. So, for example, you have the sectoral deliverables for a sector in health, and everything that is contained within the value chain or the ecosystem within that sector will be contained within the deliverables.
“Those deliverables are translated into key performance indicators for the respective ministries. And once you have your key performance indicators, you’re able to clearly understand what your deliverables are over the period of the four years of the administration.”