MONROVIA: The Boakai administration is not waiting to complete full reporting on results from the implementation of its 100-Day Action Plan before venturing into a wider development planning for the rest of its five to six years. Apparently itchy to do the Liberian people’s work for which it was elected, the administration is gathering all the steams – resources, expertise and planning – necessary to bring to live and produce results of its ARREST flagship development agenda. Perhaps for the cause of the aforesaid, the President is convening his first major development cabinet retreat of the year—full four days of brainstorming and knowledge sharing—expressly aimed at improving coordination, communication and performance within ranks and files of the cabinet as it transitions from the 100-Day Deliverables to a more transformational agenda. The Analyst reports.
The Government of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has announced a four-day cabinet retreat serving a bridge between the just-completed 100-Day Action Plan and the full implementation of its overarching development plan called ARREST or Agriculture, Roads, Rule of Law, Education, Sanitation and Tourism.
Information Minister Jerelinmik Piah told newsmen that the President would preside over all cabinet members representing government ministries, agencies and commissions.
The test implementation of the ARREST program through the 100-Day Deliverables, according to Piah, was evaluated, showing “fragmented efforts and siloed operations, something he said highlights the need to produce a more integrated national development plan that demands effective coordination among various government agencies and robust performance management systems”.
“It is in this light that the goal or purpose of this retreat lies,” he said, adding that the theme of the pending retreat is “Coordination and Performance: Delivering on the National Agenda.”
According to him, the retreat aims to facilitate high-level discussions that will foster inter-departmental coordination and communication, and enhance performance among various government institutions and policymakers in Liberia.
Further divulging the objectives, the MICAT boss said the retreat, amongst other things, in intended to reinforce the President’s Agenda, building on previous discussion about his ARREST Agenda to a wide range of officials in the administration.
Other objectives of the retreat are: to begin the conversation on the formulation of the new National Development Plan – the executive will agree on the concept and roadmap on how to roll out the national development plan; to promote Cohesion and Coordination and enhance progress in the Government: Coordination among Cabinet Members to Foster Collaboration toward realizing the government’s vision and priorities, and to further Transparency and Accountability measures to track performance across the government;
to encourage team building – as the retreat will foster a sense of camaraderie and teamwork among members of the new administration.
Through team-building, activities and information interactions, relationships can be strengthened, leading to better collaboration and decision-making, Piah said.
At the end of the retreat, he also noted that results will be shown in a developed process to facilitate intra-government coordination across the administration; internal and sectoral; an endorsed “one government one communication” framework, and an endorsed national development plan roadmap”.
Other results will be improvement in performance management compliance system for ministries, agencies, commissions, and state-owned enterprises (MACs, and a sanctioned team-building mechanism.
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