The Democratic Governance Support Programme (DGSP)

Accountability and Performance

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Respondents were asked to agree or disagree with the statement that decision for the various funds are taken within the funds mandate; in other words, whether the fund managers are using the funds for the purpose intended. Awareness regarding whether decisions taken are within the mandates of the respective funds is relatively low for all the funds with most of the respondents stating that they do not know. This is consistent with the generally low levels of awareness about the funds. At 53%, free primary education has the highest number of respondents indicating that they agree with the statement. Significantly, amongst all the other funds only a maximum of 15% of respondents rate accountability as good. More than double the number of respondents disagrees than agree that the various funds operate within their mandate, indicating the generally high levels of distrust in fund managers, with more than 30% of respondents indicating a lack of accountability within management. For all the funds, except for free primary education, few respondents agree that decisions taken are well justified. Those who agree that decisions were justified were less than 10% for the Rural Electrification Fund, Local Authority Transfer Fund, and the and Road Maintenance funds. CDF, HIV/AIDS and the Secondary School Bursary funds scored only slightly better at around 15%. With the exception of the Free Primary Education Fund where over 50% agree that fund decisions are sufficiently justified, the data shows large dissatisfaction in the probity of decision-making, with CDF drawing the strongest opinions (46% indicating that fund decisions are not sufficiently justified).