They said that steps are needed to address issues relating to enhancing effectiveness of devolution, improving people’s participation and involvement of civil society, especially voluntary organizations.
Empowerment of marginal and excluded classes would be needed to act as pressure groups to check deterioration in governance and exploitation of the public, they added.
The Corporate governance issues are also needed to be addressed, including improvement of public-private interface, and development of legal and regulatory frameworks.
Public sector management needs to be made more efficient through a variety of measures; civil service reforms; procedural reforms; procedural regulations and controls; tax and judicial reforms.
E-governance and IT would need a big push to increase transparency, fair play and make systems faster and user friendly and effective monitoring and evaluation should be encouraged and supported, they added.
They said that a number of Monitoring and Evaluation activities to be undertaken in 2011-12 to achieve the objective of good governance and effective service deliver to the masses welfare.
Highlighting the measures, they said that realization of President’s Vision for utilizing satellite images to enhance affectivity of planning and monitoring of Infrastructure Development projects like Bridges, Roads and Dams would be ensured.
They said that emphasis will be given for further improvement of “Project Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) and efforts will also be made to bring all ministries/divisions in loop of PMES during the FY 2011-12.
They further said that capacity building of the Monitoring Officers with respect to skills development as per monitoring standard including submission of cash/work plan and data for PMES would also be ensured.
The official sources added that twenty completed projects have been targeted for ex-post impact evaluation during 2011-12 while all Technical Sections of the Planning Commission will be brought on-line and access would be provided to them for smooth implementation of PMES.
They further said that evaluation module of PMES software will be made operational during 2011-12.
They added that an amount of Rs 5.6 billion including foreign aid of Rs 3.1 billion has been allocated for the governance sector in 2011-12, indicating a decrease of 43% over the last year’s allocation of Rs 9.8 billion.
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Quelle/Source: Associated Press of Pakistan, 09.06.2011
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