The Federal Government has unveiled the upgraded Citizens’ Delivery Tracker App, which will enable all citizens to view the deliverables and key performance indicators for all ministries and give their assessments.
The government said the tracker is available at app.cdcu.gov.ng. and can be downloaded on Google Play Store and Apple Store. However, checks by Nairametrics show that the app is not yet available on those platforms as of the time of filing this report.
Hadiza Usman, Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination and Head of the Central Delivery Coordination Unit (CDCU), spoke at the go-live event of the app on Monday in Abuja.
Usman said the initiative was in tandem with President Bola Tinubu’s earlier promise at the cabinet retreat for ministers, presidential aides, and others that his administration would ensure that citizens were an integral part of tracking management process of the government.
Usman said that in arriving at the deliverables and key performance indicators (KPIs), the CDCU, supported by development partners and consultants, held numerous bilateral meetings with ministers, permanent secretaries, and their respective technical teams over six weeks.
According to the special adviser, the Citizens’ Delivery Tracker is an application that allows citizens to view the priority programs and projects of the Federal Government on their devices.
Usman said that the tracker offered citizens the opportunity to give real-time feedback on their assessment of policies, projects, and programs of government from anywhere in the country.
She said that the tracker was dynamic and would be constantly modified to enhance ease of use and maintain a strong feedback loop between citizens and their government.
In her remarks, Cynthia Rowe, Development Director, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, UK, commended the initiative, saying that she was proud of the UK-Nigeria partnership.
She said that since 2019, the UK-funded Partnerships to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) program had been run largely by Nigerian experts and supported the CDCU.
On his part, Ifeanyi Peters, Team Lead, Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO-PERL), said he was happy that the effort put in the project had come to fruition.
He said the upgrading was to make sure the app captured its real essence while being more accessible to the citizens.