1. NPoA Harmonisation Presentation Made At National APRM Workshop on
“Harmonizing the Mauritius National Plan of Action (NPoA) with the existing development strategies and Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)”
Domaine Les Pailles, Mauritius
23-24 April 2012 by
Adotey Bing-Pappoe

2. Outline
Integrating with Existing National Plans: Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
Identification of APRM Projects Within National Plans
Tracking APRM Projects and Programmes

3. NPoA Harmonisation
Integrating with Existing National Plans: Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes

4. Integrating Objectives,Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
overarching issues
two Overarching Issues
harmonising the Institutional framework
harmonising the planning cycles

5. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
institutional framework-1
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

6. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
institutional framework-2
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

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

8. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
planning cycles
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

9. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
options
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

10. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
the plans
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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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 among existing national plans managed by the responsible mdas

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

17. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
aprm as governance
the challenge: to harmonise the governance framework of the aprm-npoa with those of the pre- existing development plans, if any

18. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
aprm as governance
the questionnaire sets the stage for questions about the main governance focus areas
the benchmarking sets the stage for the npoa, and future self assessments
the npoa determines the choices of objectives, strategies, policies, and outcomes

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aprm as governance
the task of harmonisation tended to fall on a strategic ministry in particular one responsible for planning
Ghana
Uganda
Mauritius

20. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
ghana
ghana had a Growth and poverty reduction strategy GPRS-II was completed in november 2005.
The self assessment was conducted
the npoa was prepared from september 2004 to may 2005
GPRS-II was modified to include the npoa.

21. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
ghana
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

22. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
uganda
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

23. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
uganda
Objectives of NDP
National Vision of Growth, Employment and Socio-economic Transformation for Prosperity
to address the structural features of 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, business approach to service delivery
to be financed through increase in tax base, efficiency gains, PPP, capital markets, DPs)
Proposed sectoral interventions

24. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
uganda
APRM was completed before the NDP, so the latter was informed by the former
those preparing the ndp examined each objective og 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 to 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

25. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
content overlap
All main sections of the national plan should have a clear governance component where the agreed governance indicators and targets are set out.

26. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
content overlap
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.

27. Integrating Objectives, Strategies, Policies, and Outcomes
content overlap
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.

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31. Identification of APRM Projects Within National Plans
NPoA Harmonisation
Identification of APRM Projects Within National Plans

32. Identifying APRM projects Within National Plans

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35. Identifying APRM projects Within National Plans

36. Tracking APRM Projects and Programmes
NPoA Harmonisation
Tracking APRM Projects and Programmes

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