The outgoing president encouraged TZ leaders to take a page out of Malaysia's book to reap the benefits of BRN
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The President, whose second and final tenure in office ends next month, used the farewell party organised by public servants in Dar es Salaam to remind them of the need to embrace innovative ways of ensuring quality service delivery.
Dar es Salaam. President Jakaya Kikwete has urged public service leaders to embrace the Big Results Now (BRN) initiative, if they really want to transform their institutions to improve the quality of service to the people.
The President, whose second and final tenure in office ends next month, used the farewell party organised by public servants in Dar es Salaam to remind them of the need to embrace innovative ways of ensuring quality service delivery.
He said, “We learned to do things the BRN way from our Malaysian friends. BRN brings in it a sense of analysis of the problems we face through the lab process, prioritisating and establishing an effective and time bound implementation framework that ensures quick and big results.”
He praised the mechanism saying that since its adoption in July, 2013 the few sectors that were delivered under BRN have attained a significant transformation worth replicating in other sectors and individual institutions.
Initial sectors included in the BRN initiative are agriculture, education, water, energy, transport and resource mobilisation. Experience from delivering the six encouraged adoption of two more sectors from July, 2015, namely, healthcare and improving business environment.
President Kikwete urged all sectors in the public service not to wait until a formal inclusion in the programme, but adopt its working ways to improve and transform their own services.
“You don’t need to wait for Mr Omari Issa [the Chief Executive Officer of the President’s Delivery Bureau that oversees the BRN implementation], you can learn the BRN way of attaining quick results and move on your own,” he said.
To echo that, the President cited an example of the Judiciary Department whose leadership adopted BRN ways of fast-tracking case backlogs well before their formal inclusion in the methodology.
“Each Judge and Magistrate was assigned a target to settle a specific number of cases within a certain period of time. As we speak, most cases have been resolved,” said the President.
Speaking earlier on behalf of the public service servants, Chief Secretary Ombeni Sefue told the President that the public service sector would remember him for many transformations he stirred to see the public service performing to its best expectations.
“It is without hesitation that we commend you for innovating the BRN way of delivering agreed targets. BRN offers a unique and innovative way that provides sense of prioritisation, setting targets and signing performance contracts to ensure every responsible individual attends his or her duties within time for big results,” said Mr Sefue.
