Zim gets dashboard view of UAE governance
THE ongoing Government Experience Exchange Programme workshop between Zimbabwe and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will reinvigorate Zimbabwe and offer a dashboard view of international best practices.
Opening the three-day workshop in Harare yesterday, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga said Zimbabwe wanted to emulate the highly successful and rapid economic growth of the UAE with its high level of service delivery.
Zimbabwe has sent Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Permanent Secretaries across Government to learn from the UAE economic growth model.
The workshop comes at a time when Zimbabwe and the UAE continue to strengthen bilateral relations for the benefit of their two peoples.
The UAE is one of the leading global economies with best international practices in economic management.
On its part, Zimbabwe which is on a trajectory to attain an empowered upper middle income society by 2030, is hoping to tap from the UAE example which has seen the Arab nation grow into a first world country with one of the most resilient and sustainable economies in the world.
VP Chiwenga said the workshop is coming at the most opportune time when key Government structures have been established and key appointments made.
“Honourable Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Permanent Secretaries, this workshop is among other objectives expected to re-invigorate our modus operandi by offering us best practices in leadership, accelerating implementation of programmes and projects and other contemporary evolutions and innovations in government excellence and service delivery,” said VP Chiwenga.
“I have no doubt that the workshop will impact positively through high performance and delivery of timeous and quality services to the people in addition to fostering transparency and accountability.
“In line with our traditional ethos of kugara nhaka kuona dzavamwe (there is no need to reinvent the wheel) and the assiduous development pathway that we have chosen to follow as a nation, it is necessary that we benchmark with other best practicing countries. “We do not necessarily have to do an outright cut-and-paste of the various development templates that we learn from outside, but we need to contextualise and systemise them in order to strengthen our capacities and capabilities to accelerate the implementation of our transformative agenda under Vision 2030,” said VP Chiwenga.
The workshop was coming on the backdrop of a Government High Level Meeting at the end of September and the 20th ZANU PF Annual People’s Conference at the end of last month, VP Chiwenga said.
At these two gatherings, key policy imperatives were articulated to robustly guide the programmatic agenda of Government, for the next five-year tenure of the Second Republic.
“We should all adopt an attitude of ensuring clinical execution of our various roles and responsibilities and delivery of quality services in order to justify the fresh mandate to rule bestowed on us by the people in the recently held August 2023 Harmonised General Elections,” said VP Chiwenga.
“The people of Zimbabwe are now expecting Government to start delivering tangible and impactful results, based on the promises made during the campaign and the policy pronouncements made thereafter.
“We therefore need to revamp our systems and processes so that they are able to comply with the requirements of accelerated movement towards the early attainment of Vision 2030.”
VP Chiwenga said emphasis will primarily be on the promotion of symmetrical and inclusive development, as espoused in the principle of leaving no one and no place behind.
The nine focal areas of reform are Government services, Government accelerators, Government excellence, leadership and capacity building, ICT skills development, human resources, competitiveness and statistics, Government strategy and innovation, and Government performance and the national agenda.
UAE Deputy Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Competitiveness Experience Exchange Abdullah Lootah said they have come with eminent professionals who have played and are playing a key role in the development of the UAE economy.
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