- Performance contracting has increasingly become an important tool for improving public sector performance.
- In Kenya, performance contracting has been embedded in the public service for 19 years now.
The Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary is formulating a Bill that will make it compulsory for all public servants to enter into performance contracts with the government. https://rb.gy/5ij82
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The Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary is formulating a Bill that will make it compulsory for all public servants to enter into performance contracts with the government.
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said the Public Service Performance Management Bill will be the overarching law to anchor performance contracting in public institutions at both levels of government.
“Some government departments have been opting out of performance contracting. We want a law that will not exempt anyone,” he said.
Mudavadi spoke during the official release of the 18th Cycle Report on Evaluation of the Performance of Ministries, State Corporations and Tertiary Institutions for the FY 2021-22.
He said the Bill, once enacted into law will result in value-for-money from public investments through adoption, streamlining and unifying norms of a whole-of-government approach.
He added that it will also provide a framework for rewarding performance and sanctioning non-performance.
He noted that the report released on Tuesday contains the results of Ministries, State Corporations and Tertiary Institutions against the performance targets that they committed to achieve in the last financial year.
“But in the subsequent financial years, the focus of the Performance Contracts will be based on, among others, the priorities agreed upon during the Cabinet retreat held at the beginning of the year in Nanyuki,” Mudavadi added.
“In order to realise this, all public institutions must ensure that their respective key priorities are included in their Performance Contracts.”
Performance contracting has increasingly become an important tool for improving public sector performance.
“If implemented well, it is an instrument that should assist the country to achieve its long-term economic development policy goals,” Mudavadi added.
In Kenya, performance contracting has been embedded in the public service for 19 years now.
It is codified through the Public Service Commission (Performance Management) Regulations 2021, as a means of managing performance in public service.