East African Community and Regional Development Staff Award Ceremony

On 3rd September, 2021: The Ministry of East African Community and Regional Development held a staff recognition ceremony to award its staff members following the Performance Contract Evaluation for the financial year 2019/2020.

The Chief Guest, Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Margaret Kobia, congratulated the Ministry for a job well done. Prof. Kobia said that due to rapid changes taking place globally, there is need to understand what is changing, why and how we can find a good fit in public service delivery.

The Cabinet Secretary urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to benchmark with the top performing ministries. “Moving on forward, MDAs should benchmark with the top performing Ministries in order to adopt best practice in Government Performance Management,” she said.

Cabinet Secretary for East African Community and Regional Development, Mr. Adan Mohammed urged the staff to work harder and emerge first next time. “I want you to work even harder towards service delivery to emerge position one in the next evaluation,” he said.

The Ministry emerged third in the ministerial category. The staff members will receive 50% of their basic salary, State House staff members, who emerged first, will receive 100% of their basic salary while Treasury, who emerged second, will receive 75%.