Promises are tracked after the votes are counted.
The Public Performance Monitoring System compares what was promised with what was budgeted, procured, built and verified — and updates whenever new evidence appears.
An announcement is not a project. Spending is not an outcome.
Each commitment moves through a chain of evidence. The dashboard shows exactly how far along that chain the public record goes.
Five honest statuses.
Illustrative template. The rows below are fictional examples showing how a municipal dashboard will look. They do not describe any real representative or municipality.
| Commitment | Sector | Budget | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upgrade the ward health post to a 24-hour birthing centre | Health | Allocated | In progress | Budget line published; construction tender pending |
| Blacktop the municipal ring road (12 km) | Infrastructure | Partially spent | Delayed / not completed | 4.5 km completed; contractor delay reported |
| Free vocational training for 500 youths per year | Employment | Spent | Completed (evidence) | Attendance registers and completion certificates reviewed |
| Piped drinking water to every household in Ward 6 | Water | Announced | Unable to verify | Announcement only; no procurement record found |
| Digitise municipal service requests | Governance | Allocated | In progress | Pilot portal live for two services |
| Cold-storage facility for vegetable farmers | Agriculture | — | Not yet assessed | Scheduled for next assessment cycle |
| Publish quarterly municipal expenditure reports | Governance | Spent | Completed (evidence) | Three consecutive reports on the municipal website |
| Build a public library and study hall | Education | Allocated | Delayed / not completed | Land dispute unresolved; explanation published |
Beyond scorekeeping: institutional reform.
Monitoring findings feed the Policy & Governance division's work on public policy, institutional capacity and governance reform — and NLPAI's Post-Election Support helps representatives set up constituent-service processes and performance tracking of their own.
Bring a municipality's commitments into the open.
Research collaborations, programme partnerships, academy enrolment and advisory enquiries.