NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 21 — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the State Law Office (Sheria House) have emerged as top achievers in the latest Cabinet Office review for the 2022/2023 financial year.
The MFA was ranked at the top with a score of 3.0137, followed by the MoD with a score of 3.0200 in a report released by the Cabinet Office on Tuesday during the 2nd National Executive Retreat chaired by President William Ruto.
Sheria House scored 3.0700.
MFA’s score marked an improvement of 0.2044 on its score in FY2021/2022, while the MoD’s score declined by 0.09593.
Sheria House’s score registered a 0.0600 improvement.
The report ranked the Ministry of Water, Sanitation, and Irrigation (Maji House), the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, and the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs among the most improved ministries.
Maji House’s score stood at 3.1690 while the Ministry of Trade, Investment and Industry scored 3.4106.
The Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs’ score was 3.5704.
The Cabinet Office introduced performance contracting in 2013 as a way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government ministries.
Performance contracting assesses a set of targets assigned to various ministries against their scorecard.
Commenting on the report, Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria said the report was a product of a Government Performance and Delivery Roadshow compiled by the steering committee he chaired.
Kuria disclosed that the assessment looked into how different Ministries have performed over the year, areas of interventions, and the alignment with President Ruto’s Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
