The Sindh Government has developed Annual Development Plan (ADP) dashboard for better utilization of funds and speedy execution of development projects in the province.
The capacity of the Monitoring and Evaluation Cell, Planning & Development Department enhanced and other monitoring mechanisms to monitor the quantity and quality of execution of the development portfolio, including civil works construction has also been enhanced with improved information collection, analysis and visualization, official documents suggest.
Documents indicated that monitoring of the major programmes for improved decision-making to address bottlenecks could be enhanced with management dashboards.
In particular, various measures could help understand the quality and spatial coverage of expenditure like using smart phones to collect geo-tagged data of scheme progress and quality; targeted use of third parties to inspect quality of construction including use of photo-enforced monitoring; proactively engaging beneficiaries of projects to get feedback on quality and maintenance; and a management dashboard, for input and output monitoring and related decision-making.
It will also improve the perception of beneficiaries regarding the usefulness of the scheme and the quality of construction; the capacity to analysis, visualize, and present the data for enhanced timely decision-making; and the capacity to understand the impact of various interventions.
Also, Sindh Development Project Facility was designed to finance feasibility studies for projects to be undertaken in the framework of public-private partnership mode with the government of Sindh, as well as capacity building and development of team members involved in such projects. Fund expenses are approved by the PPP Policy Board.
Separate PDF Guidelines have also been approved for the usage of the fund under which all expenditures from the fund are approved by the PPP Policy Board through a defined process. The current asset value of the fund as at 30th June 2019 is 371 million.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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