{{“The Office of The President in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government will, today Friday, release publicly the outcome of the 2012-2013 fiscal year performance contracts evaluation and sign the performance contracts for the fiscal year 2013-2014”, the Minister of Local Government revealed.}}
This follows the three weeks performance evaluation that was carried out in all districts countrywide from July 16th to August 10th, 2013, which evaluation was conducted by a National Team composed of Senior Officials and Experts from different sectoral ministries, public agencies, Civil Society Platform, and Private Sector.
Nonetheless, this year’s evaluation had a supervisory team composed of Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Senior Officials from the Office of The President and Prime Minister’s Office who were monitoring and ensuring efficiency of imihigo evaluation exercise.
The Minister of Local Government appreciated the level of achievements all Districts showcased and stressed the need to maintain the momentum in this journey of self-reliance.
“Imihigo program and its annual evaluations findings have promoted the spirit of competitiveness in Local Economic Development; identifying challenges that impede implementation of government priorities and contributes to identifying solutions for fast-tracking socio-economic development whereas identifying best practices”, Minister James Musoni said.
The just concluded districts performance contracts established the following key highlights; Increased access to both electricity and clean water; increased kilometers
of public street lights; more efforts put in constructing feeder and tarmac roads; construction of classrooms and teachers’ hostels with citizens’ contribution, 1,739 classrooms and 416 teachers’ hostels were constructed in all districts.
Besides set imihigo, evaluators assessed how other cross cutting national priorities are performing e.g. reinstating properties for genocide survivors, use of alternative energy sources among the few and key development challenges encountered by Local Governments.
The total number of activities evaluated was 1846, clustered in pillars of economic development (927); Social Development (381); Governance and Justice (538). The general performance was very impressive in all pillars.
The Ministry of Local Government will soon get an opportunity to elaborate
further in the course of the next week and thereafter.
The average performance is tremendously increasing while the margin between the first and the last districts has been narrowing every successive year.
The Minister of Local Government, Hon James Musoni, has also outlined the way forward for local governments to keep the development path towards self-reliance:
“District leaders should maintain the course in improving their planning, coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation and support to lower entities. As we are signing Imihigo for the new fiscal year, local governments understand that, all institutions concerned (both at central and local level) shall consider the challenges observed and address them in the forthcoming planning and budgeting processes”, Minister James Musoni
observed.
“Central Government’s support to Districts remains vital, especially on some challenges where districts capacities are too low compared to the need. Now that Imihigo have been institutionalized in central and local governments, we should all join our efforts and have them institutionalized at village and household levels”, Minister James Musoni asserted.
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