AMOS Kimunya’s Transport ministry has been rated the worst performing in the latest public institutions' performance scorecard. Wycliffe Oparanya’s Planning ministry was rated best performer, followed by the Gender ministry, Cabinet office and Ministry of Energy respectively. The Public Service Commission was rated fifth, followed by the Water, Public works, State for Public Service, Lands and Ministry of Agriculture in the top ten category of performance evaluation for ministries and departments.
The scorecard also profiled the Ministry of East African community, Local government and that of Youths as second, third and fourth last performers.
Other poor performers were the Ministry of Forestry at 41, Nairobi Metropolitan at 40, Foreign affairs at 39, Education at 38, Ministry of Finance at 37 and Special Programmes ministry closing the list of the top ten poor performers. However, on average the overall performance of ministries improved to 68 per cent from33 per cent. Last year’s best performers, State Law Office dropped in the rating to position 16.
The country’s best and worst performing ministries, local authorities, tertiary institutions and state corporations were named in an official report released yesterday by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila.
The evaluation was conducted on 444 public agencies for the 2009-2010 financial year, where 45 ministries, 156 state corporations, 175 councils and 61 tertiary institutions participated.
On state corporations category, Kenya Wine Agencies Limited was ranked top, followed by the Nyayo Tea Zones Development Authority and the University of Nairobi.
School Equipment Production Unit was the last in this category. Also on the bottom of the list were Chemelil Sugar Company, East African Portland Cement Company, Agricultural Finance Corporation, Kenya Meat Commission Livestock Development, Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Education and Cotton Development Authority Agriculture.
The top ten best performers in the local authority category were: The Town Council of Nyamache, Municipal Council of Chuka, County Council of Masaku, County Council of Bureti, Municipal Council of Nakuru, County Council of Ol- Kejuado, County Council of Thika, Municipal Council of Eldoret, Municipal Council of Nyeri and County Council of Nyambene.
The last ten performers were the Municipal Council of Webuye, Town Council of Malakisi, Town Council of Narok, County Council of Wareng, County Council of Bondo, County Council of Bungoma, Town Council of Awendo, Town Council of Karuri, Municipal Council of Voi, Municipal Council of Nyahururu, Municipal Council of Kabarnet, and the County Council of Suba.
The Kenya Technical Teachers College and Eldoret Polytechnic came first and second in the tertiary institutions category as Siaya Institute of Technology topped the list of poor performers.
According to the report none of the evaluated public organisations achieved an excellent or grade one mark. However, the report says the evaluation process was a bit accurate compared to previous years because most of the moderating and evaluation process had been automated. “We have tried to improve the system of evaluation and what we have is based on interviews from recipient of public service, self evaluations by the agencies themselves and moderation reports from our ad hoc evaluation teams,” Raila said during the launch of the report.
Kibaki on the other hand said the performance contracted system had blended into development undertakings and resulted in improved public affairs management.
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