East Africa Community Planning and Performance Contract Workshop for all the Executive and Professional staff of the EAC Organs and Institutions is underway at the Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge in Arusha, Tanzania.
The Workshop(16-17 July) is meant to create synergies for the effective implementation of the EAC Annual Operational Plans, and ensure that the staff delivers on the set targets in connection with the performance contracts and the expected deliverables for the new financial year 2012/2013.
The Deputy Secretary General in charge of Finance and Administration Jean Claude Nsengiyumva noted that Planning and Performance Contracting processes at Organs and Institutions should not be viewed as belonging to the Planning and Human Resource and Administration Directorates.
However, it is through collective and consultative workshops that both the Executive and Professional Staff can create a focussed approach to the expected deliverables for the new financial year.
Nsengiyumva reiterated that the two Directorates were only facilitating the two processes, but the ultimate ownership and implementation belongs to all the staff. “Our various stakeholders have entrusted us with a great responsibility to transform the Community into a performing institution that will deliver the desired results of integration” affirmed the Deputy Secretary General.
The EAC official cautioned the staff to adopt a performance culture in the EAC if they were to remain relevant in their respective capacities.
He said the EAC was poised on its dynamic and challenging phase, to realize the concrete objectives of the 4th Development Strategy, which calls for a strategic re-positioning of the organization with regard to its internal dimensions, specifically its operational culture, organization and methods as well as its external dimensions, involving the need to intensify the political will and popular participation of the citizens in the integration process.
“Performance contracting as a tool to assist manage our performance has therefore to be imbedded in our management system, and should be clearly understood and owned by all staff in the EAC Organs and Institutions,” asserted Nsengiyumva.
He added, “the output of this workshop should represent the aspiration of the East African citizens to achieve predictable, comprehensive, systematic and rational control over the future direction of the Community in all dimensions of its performance”.
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