Online Reporter
Ray Bande in MUTARE
GOVERNMENT will soon put its performance contract system for top officials into law, with provisions for rewarding performance and sanctioning under-performance, as the country’s central authority moves towards enhancing a results-driven management tool designed to accelerate delivery of the national development agenda under Vision 2030.
This was revealed by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Martin Rushwaya, during the official opening of the Validation of 2026 Performance Contracting Workshop for senior public officials which opened here yesterday.
The workshop marks a critical preparatory process ahead of the Annual Performance Contract Signing Ceremony scheduled for mid-March.
Dr Rushwaya said the envisaged Performance and Results Act will also contain provisions for legal enforcement rather than administrative principles.
“Enactment of the Government Performance and Results Act: The Government of Zimbabwe has now come of age in implementing Integrated Results-Based Management.
“It is more prudent now to enact a law that broadens, deepens and institutionalises performance contracting as well as provisioning for under-performance and over-performance (sanctions and rewards).
“It will also contain provisions for legal enforcement rather than administrative principles,” said Dr Rushwaya.
He emphasised that Government’s Validation of Performance Contracting system is not a fault-finding initiative.
“Validation is therefore not a fault finding exercise. It is a governance tool for strengthening, planning, implementation, performance evaluation and the overall achievement of results (outputs, outcomes and impact),” Dr Rushwaya said.
He commended the presence of all senior Government officials at the workshop in Mutare and described it as evidence of commitment and work culture ethos within the country’s central authority.
“In addition to Permanent Secretaries, we have here the presence of Deputy Chief Secretaries, Commissioners and top officials from academia, represented by the Vice Chancellors and University Council Chairpersons.
“This again demonstrates extraordinary commitment and work culture ethos that we inculcated at the top echelons of the public sector, hence resonating well with His Excellency the President’s policy directive on the need to institutionalise servant leadership values across the public sector,” said Dr Rushwaya.
