ESWATINI n = 20 Yes No 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? • 6. Does the institution provide written reasons for the refusal of information? • 7. Did the institution disclose information about its operations, budgets, structure etc? • 8. Did the authority provide information without questioning the aims and motivations of the applicant? • 9. Did the institution acknowledge your request for information within 7 days? • 10. Was the information received clear and understandable? • Partial Additional Information Total Score: 4/20 2. Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) CATEGORY 1: WEBSITE www.gov.sz/index.php/ministries-departments/ministry-of-agriculture The MoA’s website is hosted by the government portal. Although each ministry is free to update its own site within the revamped portal, this website is not updated. It still contains the email address of long-retired Principal Secretary Dr Robert Thwala. The site was designed by Ironstamp. n = 20 Yes No Partial • 1. Does this website contain up-to-date information? Additional Information Standard information is provided but does not have a ‘News and Events’ section. 2. Does the website contain the following: • a) A description of its powers, as well as data on the organisational structure, the functions and the responsibilities of the administration? b) A list of laws, Acts etc issued within the scope of its powers? • • c) Reports, policies, programmes? d) Budget and expenditure? • e) Information about procurement procedures and/or signed contracts? • f) Vacancy and employment procedures? • • g) The address, telephone numbers and working hours of the institution? h) The contact details of specific public officials? • i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and requests for information? • Total Score: 4/20 CATEGORY 2: REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION The following questions were sent to the MoA: 1. How often is your website updated? 2. Who is in charge of your website? 3. How would you describe the relationship between the MoA and the media? 4. What is the MoA doing to comply with the Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, which calls for a 10 percent national budget allocation to agricultural development? 5. What is the MoA doing to assist emaSwati farmers who want to lease farms from the MoA and put them into good use? 6. What is the MoA’s annual budget allocation 12