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Govt. agencies to start producing performance reports

Aug 16, 2015 News

To better assess and monitor the performance of government agencies, a new plan is underway for these entities to start producing report cards.
According to Finance Minister Winston Jordan, these reports would be used as management tools by the Heads of Budget Agencies and Ministers to inform and guide national budget discussions; to inform Cabinet and, eventually, the National Assembly.
He said that the Performance Reports on the government agencies would be done on their key performance indicators. He said that the reports would basically be data-driven reviews of the sector’s performance against set targets while establishing repositories of data to encourage better storage and use. He noted that before the end of the first term in office for the coalition government, a National Performance Report will be produced and laid in the National Assembly. It will also serve as a report card to the people of how government’s systems have delivered in its services to the taxpayers.
The Finance Minister also said that government will be working assiduously to inculcate a culture of data collection, data use, data dissemination and data storage. In addition to this data culture, he said that government will be emphasising the need for such evaluations, since it must be aware of how it is performing so as to take corrective actions wherever appropriate.
Jordan said that government will also strive to ensure that policy decisions taken by the APNU+AFC administration will be supported by timely, accurate and trustworthy empirical evidence and every Government agency will be mandated to be guided by a strategic plan for their sector.
For consistency, he said that government will ensure that the process or methodology for the exercise of strategic planning is standardised across Central Government.
The Finance Minister asserted that where strategic plans are in place, the government is willing to support a process to have them evaluated so that meaningful data is fed into national and sectoral medium term expenditure frameworks.
To strengthen public expenditure tracking, he noted that his Ministry will also be conducting capacity building training for officers across Central Government so as to impress upon them the importance of utilizing this model to improve the delivery of their services to the public.
The Finance Minister said that his Ministry will begin to introduce strategic planning frameworks for the various Administrative Regions. He said that the Regions have been “treated as poor step children in our strategic planning focus.”
On that premise, he asserted that Regional Executive Officers will now be required to be better qualified and experienced, given the complexity of managing five sectors within each Region.
Further the Finance Minister said that by 2020 Central Government will have a cadre of trained public officers, who will be applying the basic concepts of monitoring and evaluation.
Recognising that monitoring and evaluation is a relatively new tool within Central Government, he concluded that the Administration intends to disseminate policies widely to guide agencies’ implementation.

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