Focus on developing public organisations’ vision and mission

MUSCAT: Means to develop public performance is the focus of a five-day seminar that opened on Sunday at the Institute of Public Administration.

The seminar was opened by Sheikh Khalid bin Omar Al Marhoon, Minister of Civil Service, and is being organised by the Ministry of Civil Service for the e-conversion teams at the public organisations. The seminar covers the public departments’ vision and mission.

Public performance

The seminar comes in implementation of the recommendations on developing public performance in light of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s Royal Vision and the action work team’s recommendations, which were ap- proved by Council of Ministers.

In a statement to reporters, the Minister of Civil Service said the Royal Directives always highlight the importance of increasing the level of public performance and expediting the implementation of e-government to ensure speedy processing of transactions by the respective stakeholders.

He added that efforts are being made now to implement the Royal Directives as the Council of Ministers has recently approved the recommendations submitted by the action team which was formed of representatives from a number of organisations to discuss the recommendations of the seminar on ‘Mechanism for Developing Governmental Performance,’ which was organised earlier by

the Ministry of Civil Service.

Vision and mission

The recommendations include developing a vision and mission for each public agency. These visions and missions should be inspired by the government’s vision and mission which focus on providing public services efficiently.

Sayyid Salim bin Mussalam Al Busaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Civil Service for Administrative Development Affairs, delivered a speech in which he said the meeting comes within the efforts made to develop public performance and follow up on the best practices that facilitate procedures at all ministries, as directed by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.