Secretary to the Cabinet, Patrick Kangwa, says active participation is critical to strengthening the public service towards advancing Zambia’s sustainable development agenda.
Mr Kangwa says collective efforts and partnerships will lead the country’s development trajectory and transform the lives of the Zambian people.
He says to achieve this score, senior government officials must take full responsibility for their actions without shifting blame to others.
The Secretary to the Cabinet disclosed this when he addressed Permanent Secretaries in Lusaka today.
This was at the third senior public service management meeting held at Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC).
Mr Kangwa directed those that have not yet commenced preparations for mid-term performance reviews to immediately do so.
He said this is because the public service is geared to ensure that no one is left behind.
He explained that the world’s most successful governments, Zambia, included institutionalise performance management through set targets, measurables, and systematic reviews by continuous monitoring of the civil servants.
‘’Government will intervene when performance lags, it will celebrate when it excels, and we shall learn both success and failure.
This is the more reason why this year government has placed emphasis on preparation, implementation, and review of contracts,’’ he said.
He added that he will soon issue a circular that will provide guidance on the conduct of mid-term reviews for controlling officers.
Meanwhile, Mr Kangwa has disclosed that Zambia scooped the second position for the best-managed public organisation at the 10th continental Africa public service Day held a few days ago in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sixty years after independence government hasnt introduced Perofrmance reviews. Nikugona kwa bwanji. Because of this Government employees are among the most incompetent. I said this when I asked why the big government house at Kamwala already looks dilapidated. Government doesnt have the manpower qualified enough to maintain it and other government buildings
The Levy Mwanawasa hospital too
Too much incompetence in this goverment. Missing PF which had less talk more work
They wanted him fired. But he opted to resign. The president pleaded with him to stay.
What was his crime?
He mishandled the Lungu family saga and gave them too much space to speak in South Africa.
When negotiating, you don’t impose your goals and beliefs. You aim at mutually agreed results and thats what he performed. He is a strategist and a performance oriented man.
We have only one issue which UPND are refusing to recogonize
The president directed the Secretary to the Cabinet to have all ministers park government vehicles after a day’s work. Ministers started abandoning work in protest of not having transport 24/7. The president then gave fresh orders against his earlier instruction. Two steps forward, one step back and another sideways. And the performance indicators? No see.
Anyone one who draws emoluments from government owes citizens, the payer, an explanation. KPI are partly such a way to express that.
You mean your ministers cant buy their own cars? What kind of parasitism is this? You vote them into office and you have to buy them cars?