PHOTO: CSA boss Thompson and GC Officer-In-Charge Elizabeth Dorkin
By Augustine Octavius, augustineoctavius@gmail.com
The Governance Commission (GC) has officially launched its five-year strategic plan aimed at developing a joint work-program purposely to serve the basis for annual work-plans at the commission.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, the Officer in Charge at the Governance Commission, Elizabeth Dorkin called on the Liberian government to support the work of the commission in order to achieve its statutory mandate through the new work plan.
She said the implementation of plan will require substantial financial and human resources in this regard.
According to her, the GC believes that the intervention of development partners is also very critical to the success of the commission in promoting good governance over the next five years
Madam Dorkin added that if the Governance Commission needs to ensure that the government policies and programs yield the needed results, it will require public institutions and between the GC and development partners.
She thanked officials of the Liberian government and development partners who graced the occasion despite their busy schedules.
Performing the launching of the plan, the Director General of the Civil Service Agency, James Thompson, said the CSA and Governance Commission are strategic partners because the GC develop the policies and evil servants implement them better the lives of the people.
According to him, the works of the GC and the CSA are inter-linked because they are working to better the governance landscape in this country.
“It is very important that we understand what we are doing and where we are going,” he said; adding: “we see strategic planning as very crucial especially in the wake of scare resources.”
“We need to plan effectively in order to wisely use the little resources that we are given as institutions of government because it help set us in motion as to what we to achieve and our actions support what we want achieve,” the CSA boss said.
Mr. Thompson described the launching of the strategic plan is the right step in the right direction and appealed to other agencies of the government to develop their respective strategies.
The ceremony was graced by the representatives of the Liberia Institute for Public Administration, the European Union, the United States Agency for International Development among many others.