Dr. Nii Moi Thompson, Chairman of National Development Planning Commission (NDPC)
Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr. Nii Moi Thompson has questioned why donor support funds running into billions have not found true expression in the public sector.
According to him, his own rough calculations show that financial support from donor agencies should add up to a billion dollars.
He therefore finds it difficult to understand why there has not been any real impact.
Speaking on workplace productivity in government offices in an interview with Channel One TV, on March 5, 2025, he stated that his outfit will conduct series of research to unravel the cause of the problem.
“By my own reckoning, over the past forty years, we might have received something close to a billion dollars in donor assistance in all forms. Some 200 million, others 300 million for public sector reforms and yet the impact appears to be zero,” he said.
He indicated his readiness to collaborate with Lydia Lamisi Akanvariba, Minister of State in charge of Public Sector Reforms to explore ways to transform the sector.
“In our current context, the president has appointed a minister of State Public Sector Reforms. I just got her number. So, we are going to reach out to her, but it will take a number of diagnostics to see how come we spend so much money which does not yield results,” he said.
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