By Stella Odueme
The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) has reconstituted its task delivery team to track policy implementation in the federal civil service.
This was disclosed by the Permanent Secretary, Common Service Office(CSO),in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Raymond Omenka Omachi, while declaring open a two-day workshop on the Office’s Deliverables Stakeholders Engagement held from 26th to 27th March, 2024 in Abuja.
A statement on Thursday said the Permanent Secretary recalled that the Head of Service of the Federation, ministers and permanent Secretaries had signed a Performance Bond agreement with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during the cabinet Retreat held in November, 2023.
He announced that, the OHCSF has nine deliverables with forty-two Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to be tracked in assessing the performance of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation commencing from first (1st) Quarter of 2024.
Also, the High Impact Deliverables for OHCSF has seven deliverables with thirty-one deliverables.
He stated that the workshop will serve as a veritable platform for interaction among staff, which will enable them develop required skills to manage and drive delivery as well as result tracking data management, collaboration and communication. He noted that it will equally provide opportunity for feedback from the departments/units and agencies under OHCSF on the challenges being encountered while gathering and analysing data on government policies, programmes and projects for effective and efficient reporting.
Omenka reiterated that collection, collation and analysing of data requires commitment and dedication from staff especially members of the OHCSF delivery team and urged participants to be active in all the sessions in order to get the best result and ensure effective service delivery.
Earlier, the Director Planning, Analytics and Monitoring (PAM), in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Ayanda Muftau said in his welcome address that, the workshop was organised as part of efforts to engage the directors and desk officers in the OHCSF on effective ways of tracking the implementation of government polices, programmes and projects along the eight priority areas of the present administration.
The technical sessions included; overview of the presidential priorities and federal government delivery system; understanding the OHCSF deliverable and mapping of agencies/roles of MDAs in populating the OHCSF deliverables as well as populating the OHCSF deliverables using the (CDUC) Delivery Report Framework and Templates (Output, Progress and Project Templates).
