The Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the House of Representatives has disclosed that it has written about 50 committees of the House in demand for their quarterly reports.
Chairman of the committee, Hon. Obinna Aguocha, who made the disclosure noted that the success or failure of the 10th House of Representatives rests squarely on the adding that report from the committees is expected to cover from the inception of the 10th assembly to March 31, 2024.
Aguocha stated these Monday at a one-day capacity building workshop for the House Committee on Monitoring and Evaluation of Implementation of Legislative Agenda, and Committee on Monitoring and Evaluation of Standing/Ad-hoc Committees, organised by NILDS, the Konrad Foundation and the office of the Speaker in Abuja.
He said the panel has also drafted the 10th House Committees Evaluation Metrics with uniquely assigned key performance indicators that align with different committees’ mandates and major activities as well as rating mechanisms for each activity line.
“Additionally, we have also developed a Process and Reporting Template for all committees. The draft reporting framework also stipulated the responsibilities, obligations and privileges of each party and the timeline for report submissions to enable both the committees and the M&E.
Committee to adequately process the reports, evaluate the legislative outputs and make submissions to the House.
“Also, recognising that without effective and efficient monitoring, there cannot be an effective evaluation outcome, the M&E Committee have drafted the 10th House of Reps Standing/AdHoc Committees Monitoring Framework and Reporting Template to ensure an effective monitoring system and plans to group the Committees of the House and assign committee members and ad-hoc to provide supervision for committee activities.”
