KNOW THE LOCAL AUTHORITY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT (LAPA) TOOL

1.0       LAPA Tool

The Ministry of Local Government through Governance to Enable Service Delivery (GESD) project conducted LAPA for 2019/2020 Financial years in November to December, 2020 as a precursor for Performance Based Grant (PBG). The results of the assessment will determine eligibility for and the amount of, the PBG that will supplement the District Development Fund (DDF).

The Local Authority Performance Assessment is a tool that has been designed to help assess the performance of the local authority in wide range is areas including service delivery. The LAPA tool will:

1. Determine whether LAs have the basic capacities/safeguards to manage the development grants (to ensure that before LAs access the PBG they demonstrate basic capabilities and safeguards);
2. Provide fiscal incentives to improve LA performance by rewarding good and penalizing poor LA performance
3. Identify performance gaps and inform the development and implementation of performance improvement plans for LAs; and
4. Provide information that will be used as an input into dialogues and forums regarding enhancing local government financing and institutional performance and service delivery at both the LA and national levels.

2.0       The LAPA tool has three elements/dimensions:

1. Minimum Access Conditions (MACs) which are basic safeguards to ensure proper use of the grants. There are MACs for the Performance Based Grant which determines a LA’s eligibility to access the allocated development funding. The LAs that fails the minimum access conditions will not access the performance-based grant (PBG).  MACs are either on or off (absolute). A LA that will not meet all MACs at the time of the LAPA will forfeit its grant allocation for the coming Financial Year. The LAs that fails MACs will receive performance improvement support to help address the performance gaps identified during assessment.

To be continued