The various Heads and Programme and Project Managers of the Communities Ministry have been urged to improve their performances. The call was made on Friday, during the opening of the ministry’s first senior staff conference.
The conference was held under the theme, “Improving Management for reliable
The heads of agencies and departments of at the senior staff conference
Community Services in pursuit of the Green Economy.”
Addressing the senior staff, Communities Minister, Ronald Bulkan, explained that the conference is aimed at addressing the malaise affecting project implementation and management, that Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, spoke of during his presentation of the 2017 National Budget. Minister Bulkan on Friday noted that the Ministry has not been immune from the malaise to which the Finance Minister referred. He said that the ministry has however, commenced taking proactive steps to address the situation within its various departments, projects, programmes.
Minister Bulkan noted that in December 2016, the ministry successfully held an action-round table for regional development. He explained that the activity was designed to enhance coordination and understanding among regional managers of national policies and programmes and to promote, expand and improve the regional procurement system.
The minister said that the senior staff conference is a continuation of the process towards addressing the lethargies within the ministry. He explained that the conference will focus on such topics as Earned Valued Management (EVM), tool.
The EVM tool provides for management of project within the framework of result based management.
According to the minister, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary and planners have been charged to come up with an appropriate way for implementing the EVM in the portfolio of the ministry’s projects.
The senior conference also addressed promoting stronger community participation in programme, projects and activities and aligning these with the government’s overall Green Economy agenda.
