44. Project monitoring and evaluation

Each public entity shall ensure that all public investment projects, including public-private partnership projects be delivered on time within the budgetary allocation, and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Secretary to the Treasury.

Each Chief Accounting Officer or Accounting Officer responsible for the implementation and monitoring of approved public investment projects shall submit the annual action plan, and provide information on the implementation of each such projects to be monitored monthly by the

There shall be a Committee appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers comprising members not more than eleven from the Heads of entities responsible for planning, resource mobilizing, budgeting, financing and monitoring, to take expeditious strategic decisions relating to implementation of public investment projects based on information provided by the relevant Chief Accounting Officers and Accounting

The Head of the Department responsible for project monitoring and evaluation shall be the Secretary to the

The functions and responsibilities of the Committee and the manner of monitoring and evaluation of projects as may be prescribed.

Any substantial changes to contracts or agreements affecting the sustainability and affordability of any project specified in subsection (1) shall be approved in advance by the Minister of Finance. The Minister of Finance may determine the criteria for determining any change in a contract or agreement as substantive, taking into account relevant written laws or guidelines.