Ministry of Tourism Signs Performance Contract with Public Service

Company News of Friday, April 26, 2019

Source: Ghananewsagency.org

2019-04-26

Mr. Abdulai Yakubu, Director General of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has signed a Performance Contract with the Public Service Office to ensure that the Ministry is up to the call.

A statement from the Ministry at the Ghana News Agency revealed that the contract had been signed during a brief ceremony held in Accra by the ministry and officials from the civil service headed by Nana Agyekum Dwamena, chief of the service.

According to the statement, Nana Dwamena said the main objective of the contract was to determine the direction on which the ministry would base itself to significantly improve the tourism sector to promote socio-economic development.

He explained that a performance signed with the director general of the ministry would also ensure that the Ministry of Tourism lives up to its mandate in carrying out its core mandate.

According to the statement, Nana Dwamena said the civil service has put in place a system for monitoring and evaluating the performance management of ministries to facilitate the implementation of government policies and programs.

He added that this initiative was motivated by a comment from the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation, created to give meaning to the performance and work of different ministries for effective service delivery.

According to MP Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, the performance agreement was a key element in the overall performance of the sector.

She said that "the year of return" and the other ministry-led flagship programs scheduled to end this year would actually be implemented if staff were able to achieve its goals.

Oteng-Gyasi said the sector is currently the country's fourth largest source of foreign exchange earnings after cocoa, gold, oil and gas, and that ministry and agency staff under this jurisdiction should strive to move from fourth to third place or more.

Ziblim Iddi Barry, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, said the contract was an initiative to help the government do its job effectively and therefore called on everyone to help the government. government to deploy its political intervention in order to: the citizens.

He badured of his unwavering commitment to helping the minister achieve her goal, the statement said.