Brigitte Weidlich
21 April 2008
Windhoek — Government is to set up the Namibia Institute of Public Administration and Management (Nipam) to help improve the performance of civil servants.
It will cost N$24,2 million, Deputy Prime Minister Libertina Amathila revealed in Parliament on Thursday.
"A service delivery improvement scheme for civil servants, a job evaluation and grading system and HIV-AIDS initiatives at the workplace for public servants will soon be operational," she said, when she tabled the budgetary vote for the Prime Minister's Office Over the next three years, about N$75 million would be allocated to implementing an e-governance policy framework for using information and communications technology (ICT).
This would include electronic records and documentation to "ensure faster and more reliable communications", she said. The Deputy Prime Minister further informed the House that the State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Governance Council had been inaugurated recently, chaired by Prime Minister Nahas Angula. "He has already put in motion benchmarking exercises on performance contracts with and performance evaluations of SOEs."
Performance contracts with State entities and salary parameters for their board directors and chief executives were also set in motion. These would go together with stipulations to be mapped out for policy directives on investments to be done by SOEs and requirements for dividends. The San development programme in Dr Amathila's office will receive N$800 000 this year, which is double the amount of last year.
The N$420,7 million budget for the Office of the Prime Minister was adopted after just a few minutes of debate.
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