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Kenya: Score Card - the Best And Worst Ministries
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The Nation (Nairobi)
20 May 2008
Posted to the web 19 May 2008
Jeff Otieno And Lucas Barasa
Nairobi
Kenya's best and worst performing ministries were named in an official report released on Monday.
The Ministry of Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services was cited as the best performing ministry in the last financial year.
According to the latest evaluation on the performance of public agencies, the ministry, which was headed by former Starehe MP Maina Kamanda for most of the period under review, topped the list of 38 ministries. It scored a mean aggregate of 2.1936 in a composite score range of between one and five.
Excellent
A score of one represents excellent while five is poor.
The ministries of Regional Development and Special Programmes came second and third in the list.
Mr Mahmoud Mohammed and Labour Minister John Munyes held the portfolios respectively.
The ministries were reviewed between June 2006 and June 2007 - the Government's financial year - but results which were to be released in October last year were withheld due to the General Election campaigns. Later, the post-election violence also delayed it.
Others in the top 10 are Energy, Housing, Home Affairs, Heritage, Health, Immigration and Registration of Persons and Justice and Constitutional Affairs, in that order.
They were rated top after meeting targets set for them in contracts which were signed by their respective ministers and Permanent secretaries.
For parastatals, the chief executive officers signed the contracts, which were used to grade them on a scale designed by a committee in the Office of the President.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was named the worst performing ministry.
Others at the bottom 10 out of 37 ministries that were evaluated under performance contracting are Local Government, Trade and Industry, Water, Public Service Commission, Roads and Public Works, Livestock and Fisheries, Environment and Natural Resources, Planning and National Development and State Law office.
The poorest
Though they were rated as the poorest, they nonetheless fell in the category of good performance as they missed their targets by a whisker.
Kenyatta University scooped the best State corporation award, as Nyayo Tea Zones and Kenya Wines Agencies emerged second and third respectively.
Among Local Authorities, Nairobi City Council was the winner, followed by Chuka and Bungoma county councils.
And President Kibaki, who together with Prime Minister Raila Odinga were chief guests during the release of the Performance Evaluation Results, had good news for workers in the three best institutions: Top performers in the institutions will receive incentives for motivation.
"I wish to announce that my government will begin to roll out an incentives system based on the results that will be released today (Monday) to reward excellent performance," he said.
The Head of State directed Finance minister Amos Kimunya to provide incentives to public servants in ministries, departments and public institutions which do not generate revenue.
"I have further directed the Minister for Finance to authorise revenue generating public institutions to pay their performing employees on basis of a formula which has been developed by the Ministry of Finance," the President said.
He added that all public institutions must comply with the new system to ensure equal incentives for equal performance irrespective of whether a public institution is generating revenue, regulating or giving service.
The citizen's service delivery charter will be cascaded to grassroots public institutions for effective delivery of services, the President said.
Praising civil servants for their hard work, the President said the Government does not take their service for granted and it was committed to complete harmonisation of their salaries which began in 2002. He said civil servants salary increased by 127 per cent between 2003 and 2007.
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"We are also presenting a challenge as well as a reminder to those public service managers whose performance remains below acceptable levels that the taxpayer cannot continue to sustain them in office," he said and called for efficiency of public service institutions.
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