Policy think tank IMANI Ghana has scored the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 52.9 per cent as far as the fulfillment of its 2012 manifesto promises are concerned.
Speaking at a programme called Final Report Card on the National Democratic Congress’ performance in office at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra on Thursday, 6 October, Mr Brian Dzansi, Director of Technology and Social Media at IMANI, said: “If I will take you back to our scale, we had different rates for each of our sub-themes and when we put all the data together into that scale, we scored 52.9 per cent but one will ask, what does the 52.9 per cent, which is a fair performance, mean?”
“As researchers, what we have done is to collate all these promises, about 500 of them, and collect data on each of the promise. We did our analysis and we did our scoring. Then we went to validate this with the ministries, departments, and agencies and this was the final score we came out with.
“Now we throw it back to you, the listener and the voter. What does 52.9 per cent performance mean to you? We pose the question if the NDC has been able to fulfil 52.9 per cent of their promise. Has it impacted your life? Has our livelihood improved over the last four years if 52.9 per cent of these promises were fulfilled? If the answer is no, then we need to ask ourselves one critical question: ‘Were the promises even what we actually needed?’”
According to Mr Dzansi, Ghanaians “should also ask ourselves the new promises which the political parties are coming out with right now for the 2016 elections, we need to demand that these promises are smart, they should be specific, we want them to be measurable, we want them to be achievable, we want them to be relevant to our situations and we want them to be time-bound because when we were doing the scoring, one thing we realised was that most of the promises were really vague – ‘we will encourage’, ‘we will try’ – those promises are very difficult to track and do those promises actually solve our problems? That is the question we are throwing out there to you. We are demanding that moving forward, all political powers should come out with very smart promises”.
Source: Classfmonline
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The infrastructure gap was indeed too huge. Let us support Mahama to continue the good work he has began. Good to get such a mark from a think tank that has been so critical of government over the years
All it takes is for NDC to give some $100,00 and these guys will even equate NDC's performance to the work of God. It is now becoming more & more difficult to find a single credible non curupt entity in Ghana at the moment. So sad. I listen to this IMANI PRO being interviewed on Adom fm and so surprised to hear him F00OLISHLY say we just checked if it was done but not its impact or credibility. How? 'W'agyimi?' And he ended up saying "we leave the rest to Ghanaians" F00OLISHNESS!!!!
IMANI DONT GET IT NOW,THEY SEEMS TO HAVE LOSS THEIR WAY FORWARD,OR THE PAJERO GIFT HAS SILENCE EVERYTHING.
Election 2016 will be a surprise to both NDC & NPP
I am not surprise at all...the government has done well in Ghana but there is more room for improvement in terms of fine tuning the Ghanaian Economy. I believe in his next term he will fulfill that. The man has projected the country very well internationally and am very proud of him and my country. He is building the country from the bottom up thus building infrastructures which is the way to go and be replicated all over Africa. Real growth is created when there is enough infrastructure. i know it cannot be enough but a step in the right direction. Lets encourage that!
With the money that has come through under this government and you still rate them above average with high level of suffering. Then this think thank don't think at all