President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday launched the National Monitoring and Evaluation App EYEMARK during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House in Abuja.
The app will help in tracking, monitoring and evaluating execution of development projects embarked upon by the Federal Government nationwide.
This was disclosed last year by the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clem Ikanade Agba, while justifying the development of the application.
According to the minister, the GRID 3 geo-spatial technology, which is domiciled in the Monitoring and Evaluation Department in the Planning Arm of the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, would ensure transparency and integrity in projects execution through citizen participation.
He said, “To ensure more credibility in the generation of information, better utilisation and ownership by stakeholders, the ministry is moving forward with incorporating and deploying more innovative tools and strategies to promote transparency, citizen participation and ownership of the M&E processes.
“Among these innovative strategies is the current development by the ministry of a citizen-centric web application, the Eye-mark that will provide citizens with capability to track and report back on projects and programmes earmarked in the government’s annual budgets.”
On his part, the Director-General, NIPSS, Brig Gen Chukwumeka Udaya (retd.), said the national policy on monitoring and evaluation was one of the most important national policies to be formulated recently with implications for national development.
Present during the launching included Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Chief of Staff Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, SGF Boss Mustapa, and Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed.
