DPME and Gauteng
Cogta conduct citizen based monitoring
The Department of
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in partnership with the Gauteng
Department of Cooperative Governance (CoGTA) started the three days Citizen
Based Monitoring (CBM) survey in Endicott, Gauteng to collect the views of
citizens about government services in the Lesedi Municipality situated in
Heidelberg, Gauteng.
The survey started
today on Tuesday, 7 November and will end on Thursday, 9 November
2017. CBM is an approach to monitoring government performance that focuses on
the experience of ordinary citizens in order to strengthen public
accountability. The survey is the second one to be conducted in the local
government sphere.
The DPME conducted the
first survey in the local government sphere on 09th of February 2017, in
Colesberg, with an Integrated Development Plan (IDP) Representative Forum which
will lay the ground for community survey and multi-stakeholder feedback
meetings. The community of Colesberg made inputs into the IDP through a
door-to-door survey, which were facilitated by a team of selected community
members.
The National
Development Plan (NDP) highlights the need to make citizen engagement more
meaningful to build an active citizenry and a capable developmental state, CBM
supports this through the production of, and engagement around, evidence of
government performance. Citizen-based monitoring also shifts the emphasis to
focus on building local level accountability through the co-production of
monitoring information by citizens and frontline officials.
To date, DPME has
implemented citizen-based monitoring in 17 health facilities, 17police
stations, 11 SASSA local offices and 9 welfare service offices for the Department
of Social Development. The various tools and methods are captured in a CBM
toolkit which is available on DPME’s website. www.dpme.gov.za/.../cbmSite/CBM%20Documents/CBM%20Toolkit%20V1.pdf
For media enquiries contact:
Tshegofatso.Modubu@dpme.gov.za
/ 083 276 0786 or Mmabatho Ramompi
on 076 4803513 or Mmabatho.Ramompi@dpme.gov.za
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Issued by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME)
7 November 2017
