Business Recorder: Pakistan: Tuesday,
April 12, 2016.
The federal
government earned an overall score of 44% for the Quality of Governance in
2014-2015 but declined on account of transparency with a low score of 22%.
According to Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency
(PILDAT) latest scorecard on the performance of the federal government titled "Federal
Scorecard on Quality of Governance in 2014-2015", released here on Monday
the PML-N government has emerged strongest in its foreign policy management
(74%).
The institute
while elaborating the poor performance of the federal government on account of
transparency said that it has not yet passed the Right to Information (RTI)
Bill, which was passed in February 2014 by the Senate Standing Committee on
Information and Broadcasting and since than the approval is awaited of the
federal cabinet to be tabled in the Parliament.
PILDAT's
analysis reveals that the quality of governance at the centre has in general
improved in the second year of the federal government. The Federal Government
received a score of 44%, out of the 27 governance assessment parameters
assessed, with showing improvement in performance in 18 parameters and decline
in 9 parameters. The Federal Government has emerged strongest in its foreign
policy management (74%). Federal Government improved international relations by
initiating almost 112 bilateral and/or multilateral peace and reconciliation
agreements between Pakistan and other countries in 2014-2015 as compared to 34
in 2013-2014. The Federal Government received the second highest score for
Management of Inflation (65%) and third highest for Merit-based Recruitments
and Promotions (63%) in the second year of the Government, since assuming
office in 2013.
This score
card is the second of its kind in this series of federal and provincial score
cards on the assessment of the quality of governance in the second year of the
governments in Office. Earlier on March 31, 2016 PILDAT has released score
cards on comparative assessment of the quality of governance of the provincial
governments, which can be found on the PILDAT Website; (http://www.pildat.org/).
In this stand-alone assessment of the quality of governance, the federal
government received an average score of 42% for rule of law, 44% for management
of economy, 50% for administrative effectiveness, and the highest for service
delivery at 51%. For social indicators with a score of 30% the PML-N
government's performance deteriorated during its second year in Office.
The objective
behind PILDAT's initiative on assessment of the Quality of Governance is to
highlight key areas of strengths and potential areas requiring improvement in
the quality of governance. The initiative is by no means an exercise in finger
pointing at the government, but in fact is a collaborative effort intended to
enable us in making informed, fact-based assessment regarding governance at the
Centre.
Methodology
PILDAT has assessed the overall performance of the Federal Government across 27
parameters by calculating percentage change for over 100 governance indicators
from 2013-2014 to 2014-2015. Scores were assigned on a scale of 1-5 depending
on the magnitude of the percentage increase or decrease. The scores of the
Federal Government are not to be compared with the Provincial Governments since
the Provinces were scored under a different methodology and relative to each
other. The data for the Federal Score Card was requested by PILDAT and provided
by the Federal Government. It was supplemented with published surveys (ie Labor
Force Survey, Pakistan Economic Survey, PSLM etc). The Scores were calculated
by aggregating policy (25% weightage) and implementation scores (75%
weightage).
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