Issues in PPM

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Issues in PPME that need to be addressed in
order to enhance our organisational performance
GHANA MINISTRY OF LANDS AND FORESTRY (MLF)

• T.K. Orgle

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The organisation
Policy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Division (PPMED)

• Purpose
• Established in 1983 - to provide a framework
  for planning, monitoring and evaluation of
  Ghanas Ministry of Lands and Forestrys policies
  and programmes

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Me? ME Coordinator
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• My role?
• Supervise evaluation of efficiency and
  effectiveness of strategies and programmes of the
  MLF against government policies

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MLFs Mission

• To ensure the sustainable management and
  utilisation of Ghanas lands, forests and
  wildlife resources for the socio-economic growth,
  poverty alleviation and development of society

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Principal stakeholders

• Local Communities
• Customary land owners
• Local authorities
• NGOs/CBOs
• Development partners
• Professional associations
• Judiciary
• Research and training institutions
• Private industry

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Why (P)PME?

• Need to increase access and security to land,
  forest and wildlife resources on a sustainable
  basis
• Need to create an enabling environment for
  effective stakeholder participation
• To facilitate public awareness and involvement in
  natural resources development and management

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My involvement in (P)PME

• Elementary more of a control function - until
  recently, confined to Govt departments and
  agencies
• Community Forest Committees established in 2002
• Land Administration Project (LAP - designed with
  participatory M E as well as beneficiary impact
  assessments) initiated in Dec 2003

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Potential benefits to MLF

1. lessons learnt from stakeholders will be fed-back
   into policy development and implementation so
   that MLF remains responsive to ever-changing
   national and local conditions

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1. Adopting a learning approach which recognizes
   that diverse experiences will be generated under
   different local conditions provides better
   support to the policy planning cycle helping
   MLF achieve its goals and objectives

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1. Encourages reflection and promotes critical
   analysis of policy implementation by all
   stakeholders
2. Promotes decentralisation and self reliant
   development at the local level
3. Promotes local ownership of government policies
   and thereby the likelihood of sustained impact

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Core issue to be addressed

• Developing practical mechanisms for involving
  stakeholders in policy planning and ME data
  capture, processing and reporting

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What have we tried?

• Identified 10 key stakeholder groups for (P)PME
• Involved key stakeholders in the preparation of
  forest management plans
• Involved selected stakeholders in the validation
  of ME systems developed by MLF

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What did not work?

• Havent succeeded in sorting out the issue of
  stakeholder representation
• Who?
• Which ?
• How many?

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Personal objectives?

1. To appreciate what represents optimum levels of
   participation
2. To adopt ways of involving stakeholders in ME
   data capture, processing and reporting

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• Thank you