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In 2015, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority became the implementing agency for the Farm Road Rehabilitation Programme (FRRP). According to the Auditor General’s Performance Report on the RADA’s Management of Farm Roads (October 2019).
RADA could not readily distinguish between farm roads and the parochial roads managed by municipal corporations. Given that the farm road rehabilitation programme is extended to surrounding communities comprising parochial roads, we expected that RADA would have established criteria to distinguish farm roads from parochial roads to prevent overlap with municipal corporations.
Despite 5 years of responsibility for the programme and despite developing a priority list for rehabilitation, RADA could not identify which of the criteria the roads on the list satisfied, and we were unable to determine whether the stated criteria were utilised in determining the works projects; raising doubts regarding the transparency of the selection process.
Permanent Secretary (current): Dermon Spence
Permanent Secretary (at breach):
Breach Category: Project Management
Breach Type: Inadequate Project Monitoring
Status: Lagging
Year Reported: 2019
Last Assessed: July 27, 2020
Year Resolved:
There is need for an effective inventory and data management system that can also be relied on for planning and budgeting activities, as well as link RADA’s core functions to its objective to improve agricultural production and rural development.
JAMP is awaiting the Agency’s response to its Access to Information request.
No Calls To Action are currently associated with this breach.
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