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Website to track President Mnangagwa's performance launched
A website called Mnangagwameter has been launched with a mission to
collate, track and analyze promises made by President Mnangagwa since
his first day in office. No longer will an incumbent President make
promises that remain unfulfilled or remain forgotten in the depths of
Google and recycled newspaper.
The man behind this initiative, Vusi Nyamazana, a Political Scientist,
introduces this novel government watchdog tool that's unlike anything
else found in Zimbabwe. "The website
is a non-partisan resource that is useful to all people, regardless of
political viewpoint, who are interested in monitoring the
accomplishments of President Mnangagwa in an unfiltered manner." says
Nyamazana.
What inspired Nyamazana to introduce the website is that increasingly,
Zimbabweans are losing faith in politics. The biggest reason for this is
the seemingly unrealistic, empty and unfulfilled promises. "How can
anyone keep faith in politics whilst there are such confusing pile of
conflicting pile of conflicting views on the government's progress?" he
says .
"If we want a strong and responsive democracy in Zimbabwe,
we need to develop a culture of "Monitorial Citizenship", where we
monitor these promises and challenge the government where it falls
short. Civic engagement is too important to be something we do only at
elections." he adds.
On the sites homepage, there are four themes
representing the policy categories Mnangagwameter aims to monitor,
including governance, economy, social issues, and industry &
commerce. Within each category, are the individual verifiable promises
President Mnangagwa made through policy positions or in news media.
Nyamazana laid overwhelming emphasis on President Mnangagwa to publicly
release the Ministerial targets for the first 100 days and beyond.
"Armed with this information, the citizens can easily assess
government's progress and effectiveness in achieving promises," he says.
As progress takes place in each of these categories, a tracker next to
the specific promise will be updated from "Not Started", "Adequate
Progress", "Inadequate Progress", or "Achieved". Nyamazana has made sure
that the status of a particular promise is solely based on evidence -
online news articles and official government websites.
So far,
the website has tracked President Mnangagwa's 73 days in office, and to
date the website has listed 89 promises made by President Mnangagwa.
The site also has access to an analytics board, which features several
useful graphs charting President Mnangagwa's promises over time or by
category.
The website, true to its claim of being non-partisan, will provide a
discussion forum that allow citizens to post comments on the Presidents
performance. Citizens can also discuss the promises on the Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/MnangagwaMeter.
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