Political Economy Scorecards

Rating and Improving African and Developing Countries' Political Economies and Systems

African Political Economy Scorecards

This programme covers research and consulting in the social sciences and humanities fields, for example sociology, economics, political science, and development studies. It interfaces these disciplines within problem contexts and explores how they combine to produce new knowledge and new practices that impact the world significantly.

Some of the underpinning research topics include:

  • socio-technical systems and cybernetics;
  • technology-based innovations;
  • the philosophy and sociology of science;
  • rationality and heuristics;
  • psychology of work and human performance;
  • model-based knowledge management;
  • social marketing;
  • strategic negotiations and conflict resolution.

National Economic and Social Development Movements 

  • There is an imperative to train a cadre of Nigerian and African citizens in creative advocacy and civic duties, aimed at transforming the mindsets of the electorates towards claiming their rights to corruption-free, and authentic socio-economic development.
  • An example is a Nigerian Economic and Social Development Movement (NESDEM), which will address equitable use of local governments, states, and federal government revenue allocations in cost-effective development of key sectors of the economy – education, health, business, etc.

Supporting ICRED School

The programme is supported by research in the ICRED School of Divinities Philosophy and Metaphysics of Knowledge Production, see

www.oseluxworldhero3e.com.

Outcomes

The programme applies related research results in these topic areas to ethical management and world development. Hence, it institutes a watchdog which will score (African) countries and key elites on issues, behaviours, and key performance indicators in wider economic spheres, issues which signal their anti-corruption credentials, for example.

This organization is called the

AfricanPoliticalEconomyScorecard.org

and will be piloted in Nigeria through the Nigerian Political Economy Scorecard Experiment.

The experiment will build performance scorecards in key sectors of the economy and polity, for example the educational, economic, political, leadership and governance, financial, hospital and health systems. The importance of this work informs the name we give to this programme in AFRIHERO, African Political Economy Scorecard.

The multi-methodology for each scorecard includes

  • Extensive consultations with pertinent stakeholders in different sectors of a country, statistical analysis of consultation results, and similar practices and scorecards used in business and education globally.
  • Examples of these practices include: the balanced scorecard (and its extensions); integral excellence models (see our publications on this topic in the Publications section); credit scoring algorithms; and league tables for comparing performances among educational and health institutions.

The methodology also includes UN indicators, for example elements of the UN Knowledge Economy Index (UN-KEI), in order to ascertain how the operators’ schemes and behaviours contribute to a nation’s potential to become a knowledge economy. It will underpin specialist interventions towards national socio-economic development, such as

  • Electoral Geography, Polling and Political Consulting, and
  • Organizational Performance Modelling and Evaluation,

using established criteria and frameworks, for example the (UK) Professional Standards Framework, (UK) Research Excellence Framework (UK REF), and African Research and Teaching Excellence Framework ARETEF©, an AFRIHERO trademark.

For the NESDEMs,

the methodology involves NGO-style national reconscientization, moral rearmaments, and altruistic socio-political education, in collaboration with churches, academia, industry, government, and global philanthropists.

The key outcome of the programme

Will be scorecards that rate operators in the polity, rebased to 100%, so that we can describe an operator-entity (for example individuals, groups, and organizations) as an x % anti-corruption performer, for example. This will enable the scorecards to make vital inputs into reward and sanctions schemes facing such operators, for example career advancements, government support, and access to international sponsorships.

Again, for the NESDEMs, this will be in the form of a socio-economic development scorecards along similar lines, whereby we talk about, say, 1-10 NESDEM ratings for elites and governments, with 7-10 as desirable target scores.

Collaborations

We will convene AFRIHERO-ICRED events around these and related ideas such as conferences, seminars, training workshops, client projects, and development of educational resources, as appropriate. We do these in collaborations with the best minds and organizations in different regions of the world.

Dissemination pathways

  • Convening annual AfriWorldhero3e International Schools, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops (ISSCWs) with all these topics as themes
  • Publishing related proceedings, journal papers, superbooks and research monographs.

Enquiries

For more details, please contact us at:

Email:  info@afrihero.org.uk; or through Tel. no:  +447772632150 to speak to the Director of Research and Enterprise Development, Dr Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE