The IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has scored the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 56.77% on its 2020 IMANIFesto final score card.
This score stems from 510 promises the NPP made prior to the 2016 elections.
Based on the five parameters used for the assessment, the NPP’s 56.77% score was rated as a ‘fairly satisfactory progress.’
Meanwhile, opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) scored 52.9% out of 540 promises between 2013 and 2016.
Score indicators
Breaking the five key indicators used for the assessment, the NPP were scored as follows:
Economy, 57.62%; Governance, 59.25%; Social Services, 58.85%; Human Capital Investment, 55.87% and 51.71% on Infrastructure.
IMANI says the grading is based on the promises made, those that have fully been executed and those in progress.
It says the assessment in the case of successive Ghanaian governments since 2008, had taken the shape of;
- The manifesto’s ability to transform the Ghanaian economy along some baseline parameters,
- An interim (midterm) assessment of the winning party’s commitment to the manifesto, and
- A final assessment of the execution of promises over the term of the government, considering various opportunities and threats the government could have been exposed to, domestically or internationally.
The final assessment provides the basis for understanding the state of key sectors of the economy, prior to an election, which corroborates the expectations of citizens.
Read also: IMANIFesto: Performance of NPP, NDC administrations in first three years
Purpose of IMANIFesto
Speaking with GhanasOnline on the sidelines of the report presentation, IMANI’s Founder and President, Franklin Cudjoe said the exercise aims to propel Ghana’s democracy by shapping promises political parties make.
“The objective of this study is to ensure that manifesto promises are qualitative, they are measurable, they are not fanciful, and they are made with some level of understanding of resource envelope that we have.
“As we realise, the NPP made 510 promises in 2016 election but it has the reduced the promises to almost 155 in the 2020 election face. This time their promises are a bit more carefully created and a bit more measurable and they’ve put some monetary value to it. That is exactly what we want to achieve with this. But you cannot be promising when you don’t know the resource envelope of your country in reality,” Mr. Cudjoe explained.
Read the full powerpoint presentation detailing each of the indicators here.