Monitoring and evaluation
Introduction
Ambazonia is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, whose powers are vested by the Ambazonian Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. The national, county and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the Constitution as distinctive, interdependent and interrelated.
Operating at both national and county are advisory bodies drawn from Ambazonia’s traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the country be run on a system of cooperative governance. Government is committed to the building of a free, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and successful Ambazonia.
Legislative authority (Restoration Council)
Parliament (national)
• National Assembly (61 – 200 members) current setup
• National Council of Counties (61 delegates)
Executive authority
Cabinet (national)
• President
• Vice President
• Secretaries of States
Legislative authority (county)
County Legislature
Executive authority (county)
Executive council
• Premier/Governors
• Members of the Executive Council
Judicial authority
Courts including the:
• Supreme Court of Appeal
• Courts of Appeal
• Appeals’ Courts
• Circuit courts
• District courts
• Territorial courts
The Judicial Service Commission appoints judges.
State institutions supporting democracy
• Public Protector
• Human Rights Commission
• Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious Communities
• Commission for Gender Equality
• Auditor-General of Ambazonia
• Independent Communications Authority of Ambazonia
• Election Commission of Ambazonia (ECA)
Government clusters
Government clusters are groupings of government departments with cross-cutting programmes. They foster an integrated approach to governance that is aimed at improving government planning, decision-making and service delivery. The main objective is to ensure proper coordination of all government programmes at national and county levels.
The main functions of the clusters are to ensure the alignment of government-wide priorities, facilitate and monitor the implementation of priority programmes and to provide a consultative platform on cross-cutting priorities and matters being taken to Cabinet.
The clusters of the Forum of Ambazonian Directors-General (FOAD) mirror the secretarial clusters. The FOAD clusters provide technical support to the Secretary of Secretarial clusters. The Director-General (DG) in The Presidency is the chairperson of FOAD. Secretaries of State enter into delivery agreements with the President, having to give progress reports on their departments’ set targets.
Economic Sectors, Investment, Employment and Infrastructure Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Mineral Resources and Energy (Chair)
- Tourism (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Communications and Information Technologies
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Finance
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Foreign Affairs
- Police
- Public Enterprises
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Trade, Industry and Competition
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of Mineral Resources and Energy
- Secretary Of State of Tourism
Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) (Chair)
- Public Service and Administration (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Enterprises
- The Presidency
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of CoGTA
- Secretary Of State of Public Service and Administration
Social Protection, Community and Human Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Health (Chair)
- Basic Education (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- Social Development
- Sport, Arts and Culture
- The Presidency
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Health
- Secretary of State of Basic Education
International Cooperation, Trade and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Sport, Arts and Culture (Chair)
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Chair)
- Communications and Digital Technologies
- Defence and War Veterans
- Finance
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Mineral Resources and Energy
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Tourism
- Trade, Industry and Competition
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Sport, Arts and Culture
- Secretary of State of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Justice, Crime Prevention and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Defence and War Veterans (Chair)
- Police (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (The Presidency)
- Social Development
- State Security
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Defence and War Veterans
- Secretary of State of Police
Monitoring and evaluation
Institutional Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (IPME)
This function monitors the quality of management practices in government departments through the Management Performance Assessment Tool. The Frontline Service Delivery Monitoring programme of IPME is responsible for designing and implementing hands-on service delivery monitoring activities with Offices of the Premier/Governors and for setting up and supporting the implementation of citizens-based monitoring systems.
The programme has also been successful in elevating monitoring and evaluation to strategic levels in certain sector departments, several of which have developed their own iterations of the programme. One of the key focuses of the programme is on monitoring the implementation of the National Development Policy.
The programme assesses the following:
- Transport: driver’s licence testing centres.
- Education: schools.
- Health: hospitals, clinics, community health centres.
- Home Affairs.
- Local Government: municipal customer care centres.
- The National Youth Development Programme.
- The Ambazonian Police Service: police stations.
- Ambazonian Social Security
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Structure and functions of the Ambazonian Government
Introduction
Ambazonia is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, whose powers are vested by the Ambazonian Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. The national, county and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the Constitution as distinctive, interdependent and interrelated.
Operating at both national and county are advisory bodies drawn from Ambazonia’s traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the country be run on a system of cooperative governance. Government is committed to the building of a free, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and successful Ambazonia.
Legislative authority (Restoration Council)
Parliament (national)
• National Assembly (61 – 200 members) current setup
• National Council of Counties (61 delegates)
Executive authority
Cabinet (national)
• President
• Vice President
• Secretaries of States
Legislative authority (county)
County Legislature
Executive authority (county)
Executive council
• Premier/Governors
• Members of the Executive Council
Judicial authority
Courts including the:
• Supreme Court of Appeal
• Courts of Appeal
• Appeals’ Courts
• Circuit courts
• District courts
• Territorial courts
The Judicial Service Commission appoints judges.
State institutions supporting democracy
• Public Protector
• Human Rights Commission
• Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious Communities
• Commission for Gender Equality
• Auditor-General of Ambazonia
• Independent Communications Authority of Ambazonia
• Election Commission of Ambazonia (ECA)
Government clusters
Government clusters are groupings of government departments with cross-cutting programmes. They foster an integrated approach to governance that is aimed at improving government planning, decision-making and service delivery. The main objective is to ensure proper coordination of all government programmes at national and county levels.
The main functions of the clusters are to ensure the alignment of government-wide priorities, facilitate and monitor the implementation of priority programmes and to provide a consultative platform on cross-cutting priorities and matters being taken to Cabinet.
The clusters of the Forum of Ambazonian Directors-General (FOAD) mirror the secretarial clusters. The FOAD clusters provide technical support to the Secretary of Secretarial clusters. The Director-General (DG) in The Presidency is the chairperson of FOAD. Secretaries of State enter into delivery agreements with the President, having to give progress reports on their departments’ set targets.
Economic Sectors, Investment, Employment and Infrastructure Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Mineral Resources and Energy (Chair)
- Tourism (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Communications and Information Technologies
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Finance
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Foreign Affairs
- Police
- Public Enterprises
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Trade, Industry and Competition
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of Mineral Resources and Energy
- Secretary Of State of Tourism
Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Chair)
- Public Service and Administration (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Enterprises
- The Presidency
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of CoGTA
- Secretary Of State of Public Service and Administration
Social Protection, Community and Human Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Health (Chair)
- Basic Education (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- Social Development
- Sport, Arts and Culture
- The Presidency
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Health
- Secretary of State of Basic Education
International Cooperation, Trade and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Sport, Arts and Culture (Chair)
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Chair)
- Communications and Digital Technologies
- Defence and War Veterans
- Finance
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Mineral Resources and Energy
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Tourism
- Trade, Industry and Competition
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Sport, Arts and Culture
- Secretary of State of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Justice, Crime Prevention and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Defence and War Veterans (Chair)
- Police (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (The Presidency)
- Social Development
- State Security
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Defence and War Veterans
- Secretary of State of Police
Monitoring and evaluation
Institutional Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (IPME)
This function monitors the quality of management practices in government departments through the Management Performance Assessment Tool. The Frontline Service Delivery Monitoring programme of IPME is responsible for designing and implementing hands-on service delivery monitoring activities with Offices of the Premier/Governors and for setting up and supporting the implementation of citizens-based monitoring systems.
The programme has also been successful in elevating monitoring and evaluation to strategic levels in certain sector departments, several of which have developed their own iterations of the programme. One of the key focuses of the programme is on monitoring the implementation of the National Development Policy.
The programme assesses the following:
- Transport: driver’s licence testing centres.
- Education: schools.
- Health: hospitals, clinics, community health centres.
- Home Affairs.
- Local Government: municipal customer care centres.
- The National Youth Development Programme.
- The Ambazonian Police Service: police stations.
- Ambazonian Social Security
Structure and functions of the Ambazonian Government
Monitoring and evaluation
Introduction
Ambazonia is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, whose powers are vested by the Ambazonian Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. The national, county and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the Constitution as distinctive, interdependent and interrelated.
Operating at both national and county are advisory bodies drawn from Ambazonia’s traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the country be run on a system of cooperative governance. Government is committed to the building of a free, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and successful Ambazonia.
Legislative authority (Restoration Council)
Parliament (national)
• National Assembly (61 – 200 members) current setup
• National Council of Counties (61 delegates)
Executive authority
Cabinet (national)
• President
• Vice President
• Secretaries of States
Legislative authority (county)
County Legislature
Executive authority (county)
Executive council
• Premier/Governors
• Members of the Executive Council
Judicial authority
Courts including the:
• Supreme Court of Appeal
• Courts of Appeal
• Appeals’ Courts
• Circuit courts
• District courts
• Territorial courts
The Judicial Service Commission appoints judges.
State institutions supporting democracy
• Public Protector
• Human Rights Commission
• Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious Communities
• Commission for Gender Equality
• Auditor-General of Ambazonia
• Independent Communications Authority of Ambazonia
• Election Commission of Ambazonia (ECA)
Government clusters
Government clusters are groupings of government departments with cross-cutting programmes. They foster an integrated approach to governance that is aimed at improving government planning, decision-making and service delivery. The main objective is to ensure proper coordination of all government programmes at national and county levels.
The main functions of the clusters are to ensure the alignment of government-wide priorities, facilitate and monitor the implementation of priority programmes and to provide a consultative platform on cross-cutting priorities and matters being taken to Cabinet.
The clusters of the Forum of Ambazonian Directors-General (FOAD) mirror the secretarial clusters. The FOAD clusters provide technical support to the Secretary of Secretarial clusters. The Director-General (DG) in The Presidency is the chairperson of FOAD. Secretaries of State enter into delivery agreements with the President, having to give progress reports on their departments’ set targets.
Economic Sectors, Investment, Employment and Infrastructure Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Mineral Resources and Energy (Chair)
- Tourism (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Communications and Information Technologies
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Finance
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Foreign Affairs
- Police
- Public Enterprises
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Trade, Industry and Competition
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of Mineral Resources and Energy
- Secretary Of State of Tourism
Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) (Chair)
- Public Service and Administration (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Enterprises
- The Presidency
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of CoGTA
- Secretary Of State of Public Service and Administration
Social Protection, Community and Human Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Health (Chair)
- Basic Education (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- Social Development
- Sport, Arts and Culture
- The Presidency
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Health
- Secretary of State of Basic Education
International Cooperation, Trade and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Sport, Arts and Culture (Chair)
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Chair)
- Communications and Digital Technologies
- Defence and War Veterans
- Finance
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Mineral Resources and Energy
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Tourism
- Trade, Industry and Competition
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Sport, Arts and Culture
- Secretary of State of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Justice, Crime Prevention and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Defence and War Veterans (Chair)
- Police (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (The Presidency)
- Social Development
- State Security
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Defence and War Veterans
- Secretary of State of Police
Monitoring and evaluation
Institutional Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (IPME)
This function monitors the quality of management practices in government departments through the Management Performance Assessment Tool. The Frontline Service Delivery Monitoring programme of IPME is responsible for designing and implementing hands-on service delivery monitoring activities with Offices of the Premier/Governors and for setting up and supporting the implementation of citizens-based monitoring systems.
The programme has also been successful in elevating monitoring and evaluation to strategic levels in certain sector departments, several of which have developed their own iterations of the programme. One of the key focuses of the programme is on monitoring the implementation of the National Development Policy.
The programme assesses the following:
- Transport: driver’s licence testing centres.
- Education: schools.
- Health: hospitals, clinics, community health centres.
- Home Affairs.
- Local Government: municipal customer care centres.
- The National Youth Development Programme.
- The Ambazonian Police Service: police stations.
- Ambazonian Social Security
Structure and functions of the Ambazonian Government
Introduction
Ambazonia is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, whose powers are vested by the Ambazonian Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. The national, county and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the Constitution as distinctive, interdependent and interrelated.
Operating at both national and county are advisory bodies drawn from Ambazonia’s traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the country be run on a system of cooperative governance. Government is committed to the building of a free, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and successful Ambazonia.
Legislative authority (Restoration Council)
Parliament (national)
• National Assembly (61 – 200 members) current setup
• National Council of Counties (61 delegates)
Executive authority
Cabinet (national)
• President
• Vice President
• Secretaries of States
Legislative authority (county)
County Legislature
Executive authority (county)
Executive council
• Premier/Governors
• Members of the Executive Council
Judicial authority
Courts including the:
• Supreme Court of Appeal
• Courts of Appeal
• Appeals’ Courts
• Circuit courts
• District courts
• Territorial courts
The Judicial Service Commission appoints judges.
State institutions supporting democracy
• Public Protector
• Human Rights Commission
• Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious Communities
• Commission for Gender Equality
• Auditor-General of Ambazonia
• Independent Communications Authority of Ambazonia
• Election Commission of Ambazonia (ECA)
Government clusters
Government clusters are groupings of government departments with cross-cutting programmes. They foster an integrated approach to governance that is aimed at improving government planning, decision-making and service delivery. The main objective is to ensure proper coordination of all government programmes at national and county levels.
The main functions of the clusters are to ensure the alignment of government-wide priorities, facilitate and monitor the implementation of priority programmes and to provide a consultative platform on cross-cutting priorities and matters being taken to Cabinet.
The clusters of the Forum of Ambazonian Directors-General (FOAD) mirror the secretarial clusters. The FOAD clusters provide technical support to the Secretary of Secretarial clusters. The Director-General (DG) in The Presidency is the chairperson of FOAD. Secretaries of State enter into delivery agreements with the President, having to give progress reports on their departments’ set targets.
Economic Sectors, Investment, Employment and Infrastructure Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Mineral Resources and Energy (Chair)
- Tourism (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Communications and Information Technologies
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Finance
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Foreign Affairs
- Police
- Public Enterprises
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Trade, Industry and Competition
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of Mineral Resources and Energy
- Secretary Of State of Tourism
Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Chair)
- Public Service and Administration (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Enterprises
- The Presidency
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary Of State of CoGTA
- Secretary Of State of Public Service and Administration
Social Protection, Community and Human Development
The departments in this cluster are:
- Health (Chair)
- Basic Education (Chair)
- Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
- Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- Employment and Labour
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
- Higher Education, Science and Innovation
- Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Public Works and Infrastructure
- Social Development
- Sport, Arts and Culture
- The Presidency
- Transport
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Health
- Secretary of State of Basic Education
International Cooperation, Trade and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Sport, Arts and Culture (Chair)
- Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Chair)
- Communications and Digital Technologies
- Defence and War Veterans
- Finance
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Mineral Resources and Energy
- State Security
- The Presidency
- Tourism
- Trade, Industry and Competition
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Sport, Arts and Culture
- Secretary of State of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Justice, Crime Prevention and Security
The departments in this cluster are:
- Defence and War Veterans (Chair)
- Police (Chair)
- Finance
- Home Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice and Correctional Services
- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (The Presidency)
- Social Development
- State Security
- Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (in The Presidency)
Co-Chairpersons:
- Secretary of State of Defence and War Veterans
- Secretary of State of Police
Monitoring and evaluation
Institutional Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (IPME)
This function monitors the quality of management practices in government departments through the Management Performance Assessment Tool. The Frontline Service Delivery Monitoring programme of IPME is responsible for designing and implementing hands-on service delivery monitoring activities with Offices of the Premier/Governors and for setting up and supporting the implementation of citizens-based monitoring systems.
The programme has also been successful in elevating monitoring and evaluation to strategic levels in certain sector departments, several of which have developed their own iterations of the programme. One of the key focuses of the programme is on monitoring the implementation of the National Development Policy.
The programme assesses the following:
- Transport: driver’s licence testing centres.
- Education: schools.
- Health: hospitals, clinics, community health centres.
- Home Affairs.
- Local Government: municipal customer care centres.
- The National Youth Development Programme.
- The Ambazonian Police Service: police stations.
- Ambazonian Social Security