The government has launched a digital system that will evaluate and track the implementation progress and performance of national government development projects.
National Government Administrative Officers (NGAOs) will use the digital monitoring tools dubbed “project BETA” to track the implementation of projects in their respective areas.
According to Internal Security Principal Secretary Dr. Raymond Omollo, the tool will ensure information on government projects and programmes is marked by timelinessand credibility.
While distributing region and county specific tablets to Regional and County Commissioners at the Kenya School of Government, Dr. Omollo
stressed that projects from now on will be uploaded and tracked in real
time with the information available at a one stop dashboard.
”The purpose of Project BETA is to capacitate our officers to supervise better, coordinate and oversee effective implementation of National Government policies, programmes, and projects with an emphasis on the lowest administrative unit being the Sub-Location cascaded upwards to the Region level,” said PS Omollo.
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Additionally, the system’s dashboard will filter crime statistics, allowing instant retrieval of criminal activities in the last hour, 24 hours, 1 week, or 1 month.
PS Omollo further said that Regional and County Commissioners, acting as Chairpersons of the National Government Development Implementation Coordination and Management Committees, will use Project BETA to appraise ongoing projects, analyze budgetary allocations, and assess actual expenditures at different Regions and Counties.
According to PS Omollo play a pivotal role in transforming and maximizing the impact of this targeted investment.
”This digital reporting capability and enhanced oversight capacity moves us faster to a more modern, functional, and efficient NGAOs that is highly responsive,” PS Omollo said.
This comes against the backdrop of His Excellency President William
Ruto last week during a two-day National Executive Pitstop Retreat revealing that the government would launch a tracker that would discharge of every commitment made by the Government and in the BETA plan.
