Outline 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

1. 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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 institutional framework-2

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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. institutional framework-3

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes countries commonly have several development plans being implemented simultaneously. Examples: A Strategic National Development Plan PRSP MDGs HIPC MCA AGOA thus harmonising plans not new to African planners harmonising the npoa with pre-existing national plans had to resolve three scenarios the plans

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes Challenge-1: harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: overlapping development projects options

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes the more the npoa overlapped with pre-exiting national plans, the easier it is to harmonise the two objectives

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, 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

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes challenge-2: harmonising the npoa with preexisting national plans: new development projects options

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, 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

Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes challenge-3: harmonising the npoa with pre-existing national plans: the governance aspects options

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

2 I ntegrating NPoAs with Existing National Plans: Country Experiences

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes the task of harmonisation tended to fall on a strategic ministry in particular one responsible for planning Ghana Uganda aprm as governance

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes ghana had a Growth and poverty reduction strategy GPRS-II which was completed in november 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes ghana GPRS IINPOA 1. Continued Macroeconomic Stability1. Democracy and Good Political Governance 2. Private Sector Competitiveness2. Economic Governance and Management 3. Human Resource Development3. Corporate Governance 4. Good Governance and Civic Responsibility 4. Socio-Economic Development

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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

Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and 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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