The IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has made an analysis of the progress report of the erstwhile Mahama administration and the Akufo-Addo led governance as presented in their respective IMANIFesto.
This takes into consideration the first three years of the Mahama leadership and that of the Akufo-Addo led administration.
IMANIFesto is a framework that assesses political parties’ manifestos using a coding system comprised of quantitative indicators.
It analyses the status of implementation of pledges contained in the manifesto of the ruling party, the feasibility of manifestos presented by political parties prior to elections and the impact of their promises on the livelihood of the citizenry.
Below is the analysis as put out by the Think tank’s president, Franklin Cudjoe.
Report analysis
In July 2015, after three years of executing the NDC’s 2012 manifesto, IMANI published a progress report on the level of execution of the NDC’s 2012 manifesto, which had 540 promises according to IMANI’s count.
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The NDC was awarded a progress performance score of 47%. However, the NDC in the the three year period (2012-2015) scored 51.36 % on Infrastructure. The economy under NDC scored 36.4%, governance and social policy scored 43% and 49% respectively whilst Education scored 65.7%
In 2019, after three years of executing the ( 2016-2019) IMANI’s NPP manifesto, it revealed that on Infrastructure, the NPP scored a good 46.44%. The NPP had done more in infrastrcture than they claim.
Infrastructure promises verified by IMANI were extracted from( roads, railways, ports and harbours, maintenance schemes, aviation, ICT, Housing and water infrastructure)
From our IMANIFesto 2019, The NPP government scored 48.78% for the overall ( progress) fulfillment of its 2016 manifesto promises.
IMANI counted 510 promises made.
Disaggregating this performance, the NPP government scores, 54.35 percent in the delivery of its commitments on the economy, which means they did better than the NDC, 46.21 percent on governance, also better than the NDC, and 46.44 percent on infrastructure, less than the NDC’s 51.36%.
The government scores 39.13 percent and 43.78 percent on human capital development and social services respectively.
In 2016, NDC’s final manifesto score per the IMANI scale was 52.25% but they lost the election.
Stay tuned for the final output assessment of the NPP’s manifesto in October.