Participants Call For Strategic Plan To Reform Public Sector

Accra Participants at a National Institutional Renewal Programme (NIRP) workshop today called for a strategic plan to reform the public sector to meet the objectives of Ghana's Vision 2020. At the conclusion of a three-day national workshop in Accra to brainstorm on the relevant reform initiatives and gaps for the achievement of Vision 2020, the participants came out with a 15-point outline for consideration by the Executive arm of Government. The NIRP was launched by President Jerry John Rawlings in December 1994 with the aim of providing direction to Ghana's development process and the role that the civil and public sector institutions would have to play to implement a comprehensive change of programme. Participants to the workshop include heads of public service institutions, the private sector and donor institutions. Enumerating the outcome of the workshop, Dr Appiah Koranteng, National Coordinator of NIRP, said participants agreed that the chairmanship of the apex body of NIRP, the National Overview Committee (NOC) must be pursued as a matter of urgency. Gri