Civil servants get their day in the sun

PUBLIC servants in Namibia yesterday celebrated the Africa Day of Public Service and Administration.

The day is held to pay tribute to public servants for their work and contribution to socio-economic development. Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said a more efficient, cost-effective and responsive public service was seen as fundamental to creating a high performance civil service, underpinned by improved productivity, customer satisfaction and quality service delivery.”We should be clear in our minds about where we are, where we want to go and how we want to get there.A vision is an expression of the will of the people for the future.The people must therefore be involved in formulating the vision.This process has been completed,” he said.Gurirab said in order to achieve these goals, Government needed a system to link those interventions to increased institutional and individual performances, called the Performance Management System.- NampaSpeaking at the event, Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said a more efficient, cost-effective and responsive public service was seen as fundamental to creating a high performance civil service, underpinned by improved productivity, customer satisfaction and quality service delivery.”We should be clear in our minds about where we are, where we want to go and how we want to get there.A vision is an expression of the will of the people for the future.The people must therefore be involved in formulating the vision.This process has been completed,” he said.Gurirab said in order to achieve these goals, Government needed a system to link those interventions to increased institutional and individual performances, called the Performance Management System.- Nampa