President Jakaya Kikwete

President Jakaya Kikwete has said all ministers will have to review and break down their strategic plans into workable priorities within a specific timeframe to sur economic growth.

The president made the statement yesterday, when winding up a two-day workshop on Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Framework of the National Development Plan held in Dodoma.

He said the country was not doing well in identifying priorities, creating proper systems, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of things thus stalling economic growth.

“We need to transform our ways of doing things, by being focused and having goals in mind…I hope we can do it using our 2025 vision,” he said.

Kikwete said the country will achieve “Big, Fast Results” in a short period of time only if the experience of Malaysia on framework for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of economic and government transformation programmes will be fully adopted and put in place.

When identifying priorities, the president said, each minister should ensure they set working plans that identify who should do what, how it should be done and when it should be done before requesting funds from a treasury.

For his part, the Chief Secretary, Ambassador Ombeni Sefue when identifying workshop resolutions said the government has committed itself to adopt and customise the Malaysian “Big Fast Results” model to suit the Tanzanian environment.

He said the government intends to put in place a robust and enforceable monitoring, evaluation and transparent incentives system for performance and non- performers.

“We will establish a multidisciplinary team drawn from a wide spectrum of stakeholders to propose and prepare a roadmap for operationalisation of an effective delivery government unit, learning from the Malaysian Pemandu model and the lab approach,” he said.

The chief secretary explained however that the team will be commissioned to respond to any challenge or problem facing implementation of a government plan.

He said the Pemandu Model in Malaysia, requires all members of the cabinet in the country to report strategic plans progress to the prime minister for evaluation every three months.

“We’re going to have such a model. All ministers will have to report to the prime minister or the president monthly to table progress of proposed projects,” he said.