The assessment of the government’s achievements in the last two and a half years is to create awareness among the populace and aid them in realizing how far the government had gone in fulfilling its campaign promises, Policy think-tank, IMANI Ghana has said.
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"Our assessment was not meant to berate gov't" – IMANI
IMANI in a party-based assessment (Manifesto) graded the Mahama-led administration 47% for its overall performance since it took over power in 2012.
[From left to right] Vice president Amissah Arthur and President Mahama
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IMANI in a party-based assessment (Manifesto) graded the Mahama-led administration 47% for its overall performance since it took over power in 2012.
On the performance of the economy, it graded the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government a cumulative score of 36.4% while non-formal education, distant learning and open schooling earned 65.7%.
In an interview with Bernard Avle on the , Assistant Research Director at IMANI Ghana, Maud Martei said that the study was meant to create awareness about government’s performance and measure its progress.
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“This is an output assessment where we were measuring first key deliverables,” she said, “now the idea of the dialogue that we were hoping that this will stir was if these activities that the government promised have been fulfilled and if these activities are fulfilled to the max- 100%will that give us the amount to the impact we expect?”
“If no or yes, then it means that as an electorate you need to be critical about the promises that the government makes to us because even if government has fulfilled its promises, we may not receive the impact we need. At 47%, this is what the state of the economy is and we need to think critically.”
Maud Martei added that the assessment is an outcome/output assessment.
“The study we gave was an outcome/output based assessment and not necessarily an impact assessment…For impact assessment we will probably do it after the four year term.”
Government has however described as “flawed” the overall 47% grade awarded it by IMANI Ghana, noting that the methodology used by the policy think-tank organisation was wrong.
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