President Kibaki (second right) presents an award to Attorney General Amos Wako and Solicitor General Wanjuki Muchemi during the official release of the 2008/2009 performance results at Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, April 26, 2010. The Attorney General's office was voted the best performing government department. Looking on is Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Photo/STEPHEN MUDIARI
The State Law Office is the best performing institution within the Kenya Government, according to a report released Monday.
The office is under Attorney General Amos Wako and was the best on the performance contracts evaluation results for public agencies.
The Ministry of Livestock Development, under Mohammed Kuti, was rated the worst in efficiency and service delivery closely followed by that of Labour.
The Ministry is headed by Turkana North MP John Munyes.
The Agriculture Ministry was the second best performer and is run by Dr Sally Kosgei, who took over from William Ruto following a mini-Cabinet reshuffle last week. However, Mr Ruto was at the helm of the Ministry at the time of the evaluation.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga officiated the release at the Kenya International Conference Centre, Nairobi.
The performance results are for 2008/2009 and its introduction was to bring order in the administration of public affairs, create a sense of accountability and accurately identify responsibility for success or failure.
The rating was done on a scale of 1-5 with a score of five being the worst. Mr Wako’s office scored 2.1 while Mr Kuti’s Ministry scored 3.2. The performance was rated against set targets for respective government departments.
President Kibaki’s State House was third while the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security and the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 came in at fourth and fifth respectively.
At the bottom of the scale, the third worst was the Ministry of Fisheries Development while the fourth and fifth worst performers were the Ministries of Industrialisation and Youth and Sports.
During the release, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said that government agencies had improved significantly despite “the aftermath of the post election violence, and the vagaries of the drought and the economic down-turns in the past two years”.
He revealed that that 33 per cent of the Ministries were in the Very good category and 62 per cent in the Good one.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Public Service Commission were not ranked since they did not sign the performance contracts.
On state corporations, the Nyayo Tea Zones Development Corporation was the best followed by the University of Nairobi while the Kenya Literature Bureau came in third.
The Sports Stadia Management Board was the worst corporation followed by the Numerical Machining Complex and the Postal Corporation of Kenya.
President Kibaki said that the process of performance contracting had placed Kenya on the global map.
“The defining moment for performance contracts was the recognition by the United Nations in 2007. In that year, our country won the United Nations Public Service Award, in the first category of transparency, accountability and accessibility.”
Mr Odinga added that the government had also, in addition to the performance contracting, conducted a nationwide customer satisfaction survey in September 2009. The survey covered nearly 2,500 consumers of government services and more than 1,000 public officials in all 8 provinces. The survey showed a customer satisfaction index of 63.5 per cent.
Among those present were Cabinet ministers: Dalmas Otieno (Public Service), William Ntimama (Heritage), Sally Kosgei and (Agriculture), Soita Shitanda (Housing).
Source-Daily Nation
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