The scorecard has been developed by the EAC
Secretariat with the support of the World Bank Group, according to the
principal planning and research officer with the regional body, Mr David
Sajjabi.
“We are pleased to announce that development of
this scorecard is now complete and will be launched on February 18, at
Mt Meru Hotel in Arusha,” he said in a statement circulated to the
media.
He added: “The aim of this seminar is to deepen
understanding of the media on different issues under the Common Market
Protocol and also enable the media to do extensive coverage on
identified projects and programmes.”
Article 50 of the EAC Common Market Protocol
requires the development of a framework for monitoring and evaluating
the implementation of the protocol. The Protocol was signed by the
regional leaders on November 21, 2009 and came into force on July 1,
2010.
The EAC Common Market Scorecard 2014 has been
developed over the last two years led by an EAC Common Market Scoreboard
Reference Group with the participation of the EAC partner states, EAC
Secretariat, East African Business Council (EABC), World Bank Group and a
number of regional research institutions.
Scorecard is a strategy performance management
tool used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by
the staff within their control and to monitor the consequences arising
from the activities.
It is also a strategic planning and management
system that is used extensively in business and industry as well as
government and nonprofit organisations worldwide to align business
activities to the vision and strategy of the organisation.
What Mr Sajjabi could not say is that the
introduction of the scorecard was aimed to speed up the implementation
of the EAC Common Market Protocol which has been criticised for having
failed to take off as anticipated when it was agreed upon by members of
the bloc four years ago.
Requisite implementation of the protocol and the
consequent slow pace of economic integration has also been blamed on
lack of commitment by a section of leaders in East Africa and failure by
member states to harmonize a raft of laws and regulations.
When he spoke in Arusha late last year, the
chairman of the East African Trade Union Confederation (EATUC), Mr
Francil Atwoli, said ‘borderless’ EA was only possible if the regional
leaders implemented what they have been preaching all along.
He added that although Article 7 and 10 of the
Common Market Protocol was explicit on the movement of workers and
persons in the region, the five partner states have not harmonised their
labour laws, regulations and social security systems in tandem with the
arrangement.
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