Internal Security Principal Secretary Dr. Raymond Omollo, on Wednesday 22 November 2023, issued monitoring tablets to Regional and County Commissioners at the Kenya School of Government.
In a statement, the PS said a digital reporting and monitoring tool was installed on the tablets to monitor the specific tasks in their regions.
Notably, the priority programs will include Presidential Directives and Crime Statistics across the country through the National Government Administration Officers system.
He added that the tool would ensure information on government projects and programs was marked by timeliness and credibility.
How tool Works
In a dispatch from the Interior Ministry, the digital reporting and monitoring tool was dubbed as “Project BETA”.
Notably, the tool is to evaluate and track the implementation, progress, and performance of National Government Development Projects.
The system has Artificial Intelligence capability and will also be able to evaluate delayed projects and relay feedback on implementation challenges.
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While issuing the tablets to Regional and County Commissioners, Dr. Omollo emphasized that projects from now on will be uploaded and tracked in real time with the information available at a one stop dashboard.
“The purpose of Project BETA is to capacitate our officers to better supervise, coordinate and oversee effective implementation of National Government policies, programmes and projects with emphasis on the lowest administrative unit being the Sub-Location cascaded upwards to the Region level,” said PS Omollo
Additionally, project BETA will be able to appraise on ongoing projects and the progress achieved while analyzing budgetary allocations and actual expenditures in the different Regions and Counties.
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Similarly, crime statistics at all levels will be filtered on the dashboard with criminalities committed in the last hour, 24 hours, 1 week or even 1 month easily and instantly retrievable.
PS Omollo said, “NGAOs being the government’s first point of contact with the grassroots, will play a pivotal role in transforming and maximizing the impact of this targeted investment. This digital reporting capability and enhanced oversight capacity moves us faster to a more modern, functional, and efficient NGAOs that is highly responsive.”
Priority projects that will be tracked under Project BETA
- Houses built under the Affordable Housing Scheme
- Farmers registered for the distribution of subsidized fertilizer in support of Ministry of Agriculture
- Trees grown under the 15 billion tree campaign spearheaded by the Ministry of Environment
- Beneficiaries registered for the Inua Jamii Cash Safety-net Programme among others.
President William Ruto had earlier during a two-day National Executive Pitstop Retreat revealed that the government would launch a tracker that would discharge of every commitment made by the Government and in the BETA plan.
