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    "id": 15419,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/15419/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": "Trainees find it difficult to relate their overseas training to the local context in which our governance environment operates. Government training institutes are also expected to carry out research to inform policies that govern the management and performance in public service. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need renewed emphasis on quality of decision making in public service. We need renewed emphasis on research in public administration within the Ministries’ departments and agencies of Government. We are also expected to establish linkages with renowned institutes and collaborate with institutions with similar mandates. Due to their limited mandates, the existing training institutions are unable to perform this particular role. We have an experience now, in public service, where people, after being employed do not participate in enlarging their knowledge and improving their performance in their respective portfolios. We are looking for an environment where every public officer will develop their intellectual capacities and see things in new and better ways within their own environments. We need an institution to coordinate this within all Ministries, Departments and Government Agencies. The Vision 2030 calls for an efficient, motivated and well trained Public Service that is more citizens focused and results oriented. Indeed, Kenya’s long term development strategy as envisaged in Vision 2030 has identified the development of an adaptive human resource, based on the principle of lifelong training and education as key to the meeting of requirements of the rapidly industrializing economy. The Vision recognizes human resource development as a critical component in the achievement of significant and consistent results in public administration. Global competitiveness will depend on our ability to create a human resource base that will be constantly subjected to retraining and access to technological learning in their employment environment. The First Medium Term Plan, 2008-2012 of the Vision earmarks the establishment of a school of Government as one of the flagship projects to promote transformative leadership. The school is expected to develop programmes that will inculcate public service values and ethics for the delivery of results to Kenyan citizens. There is no universal definition for a School of Government. However, a School of Government may be described as the main training provider for Government and assists in meeting the human capital development needs of the public service. By supporting public servants development and accelerating knowledge transfer on best practices in public sector management, the school directly supports the public service reforms on a continuous basis. It also contributes to instilling a shared sense of values, ethics and accountability among all public servants. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as all Members are aware, the Constitution establishes principles and values of good governance and good public service management. All these ideas will need to be continuously inculcated in our public servants for better performance. A School of Government is the center for management, administration and policy studies which the leaders train in and develop programmes for public servants and staff organizations that work in the public sector. The school, therefore, becomes a center of excellence and the first port of call in learning, adapting, innovating and leadership development in the public sector. Many countries already have schools of public service which have helped equip their public servants with skills for effective and efficient performance. Schools of"
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