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White Paper on Public Sector Reformthese issues. It will take the required action to improve the financialmanagement mechanisms in the public service, and modernize operations andtransactions so that agencies can discharge their financial responsibilitieseffectively and be accountable for them.2:3:6 PlanningBarbados has consistently used the model of the five-year macro-economicnational development plan as the centre-piece of the government’s planningprocess. But this process though useful, has its short-comings, and must bebuttressed by the greater use of the strategic planning process in governmentalorganisations.Government agencies undertake functions which are necessarily interdependentand complementary to each other. At the planning level however, thisinterdependence needs to be more evident. The experience is that weakcoordination of activities occurs too frequently; policy analysis and policydevelopment skills are in short supply; research capability within planningsections of ministries needs to be strengthened; and proper inter-linkages mustbe maintained to facilitate a better holistic approach to the planning and controlsub-processes.The current centralisation of the government’s socio-economic planningprocess also poses its own difficulties. Centralisation has its advantages formanaging and controlling scarce resources, but it runs the risk of omittinginputs from the wider cross-section of society - particularly those without easyaccess to the decision-making apparatus.
White Paper on Public Sector ReformWithin government’s development programme objectives, specifically ruraldevelopment, it is clear that the current planning process will need to bestrengthened and mechanisms put in place to incorporate the views of ruralcommunities, thereby enhancing policy planning. These mechanisms wouldalso include arrangements for upgraded monitoring and control functions.The Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs has retained the services of aConsulting firm to address some of these planning issues and to makerecommendations on improving the planning and control processes of projectcycle management.2:3:7 Management Information SystemsThe public service as a whole, is quite poorly served in the area of moderninformation technology. Its Management Information Systems, in manyrespects, are haphazard, if not archaic.The overwhelming use of and reliance on files within uncertain filing systems,and the inadequate physical storage space for files and papers, tend to createnightmares for persons who have to retrieve and use information with accuracyand timeliness. Such situations affect adversely both the capacity to makedecisions and the quality of the decisions.The general lack of modern information technology in the Public Sector makes
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