Dream No. 10 Of 10: Measuring Success l "...a far more superior methodology to that of a party politician who saw tarmac roads and glass buildings in Juba as signs of national development. It is the life of the average citizen, not the V8 owner, which better indicates the nation’s development." 20 August 2016
By Alfred Sebit Lokuji You know that the mind-set of the leadership and attitudes about public service have changed using indicators such as corruption, nepotism, patronage, or the incessant quest for easy gain. Professionals can design the appropriate statistical tools to achieve more reliable evaluations. One can gauge the liberation of gender from the shackles of tradition by simply looking at - gender frequency tables in Church (sitting patterns), schools, at work place and wherever males and females have a challenge to interact. Employment figures – wage labour, self-employment and white-collar occupation – can all reveal the extent to which gender is amicably incorporated. Within the same breathe, the ultimate test of utilizing human resources according to individual abilities can also be discerned from labour market figures. It should be remembered that when specific statistical measures do not seem to fit a situation (internal or construct validity problems), nothing prevents the person so-concerned from designing a more credible measure. The communication connections of all regions of the nation with appropriate infrastructure are not difficult to measure. For instance, percentages of citizens with mobile phones in per county; new road surfaces opened in kilometres in a year per Payam, County or the Boma; number of boats in use or estimated amount of goods transported in kilograms, etc.. South Sudan can also design its own power utilization index if it is dis-satisfied with existing indicators. One can count the number of families in a Boma who use power; the number of individuals who have lights in their own rooms; and the number of businesses/ enterprises that use power. Institutions such as UNICEF and UNESCO have been engaged in the field of education for decades; the indicators they use are good enough for South Sudan – down to percentages of literacy, people who read newspapers, novels, etc. It would be quite easy to monitor improvements in adult literacy! Health indicators abound, broken down by region, providing such information as infant malnutrition, or mortality, maternal mortality, incidents of the various common diseases: malaria, typhoid, diarrhoea, etc - broken down by Boma, County, State, or even boarding schools. The volume of trade on the nation’s highways, broken down by product and origin in weight or dollars; as well as the number of persons, by various occupations using the highways can be determinants of progress. A reduction in the number of incidents of roadside stops (buabas), demands for ID, etc can point to a growing unfettered movement. Others may want to utilize the more sophisticated hierarchy of needs (Abraham Maslow) – a controversial but nevertheless excellent way to conceptualize human development – a far more superior methodology to that of a party politician who saw tarmac roads and glass buildings in Juba as signs of national development. It is the life of the average citizen, not the V8 owner, which better indicates the nation’s development. Posted in: Opinions - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19783/Default.aspx#sthash.Iezgoy8s.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opZEKHuzkBMqvbH4H7hbeOxiJaj%3Dt8RByY4rN0%2BbbNGNQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
