HORIZON: You identified some areas of success and you also identified some areas of concern as you took up the position of ED. What are your broadest concerns in relation to CARICAD’s mandate and the work going forward? ROWE: Our capacity to implement across the region is my greatest concern. Ensuring that we achieve the development outcomes that we are aiming for. CARICAD is moving towards improving results-based management in its own operations and ensuring that in all those projects and activities that we do what we preach, literally preach, the message of Results-Based Management and Monitoring and Evaluation. We need to target the right outcomes first of all, but then we need to measure and monitor as we go along. Otherwise, we are shooting in the dark. We need to focus on implementation in a structured process through better use of monitoring and evaluation techniques and tools. HORIZON: Would you like to offer any closing remarks to CARICAD and to the wider community? ROWE: I am very happy with the staff at CARICAD and the significant contribution that they have made to the success at CARICAD. I appreciate the warm welcome that I have received and the freedom that the staff has had in terms of us communicating in an open and very productive manner. I believe that this will take us forward. I think that we have found new ways of containing costs through the utilisation of external expertise which is provided to us, and is required. The fact that we have become more technologically enabled and the fact that we recognise that in this era of fiscal constraints that we need to be thinking about doing more with less, our outreach can be greater and we can deliver the products and services in a way that is less costly to our member states. MIND award for CARICAD’s Executive Director Rowe The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) Public Life Award for Leadership Excellence was recently conferred on two prominent Caribbean public servants, one of whom was Devon Rowe, the current Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD). The other recipient was Director of Information and Communication Technology, Government of Dominica, Jermaine Jewel Jean-Pierre. The presentations were made during MIND's Regional Public Sector Leadership Development Conference, which was held at The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, under the theme 'Adaptive Public Sector Leadership: Changing MINDsets, Challenging Assumptions, Creating Transformation'. Rowe, who was the guest speaker at the conference, focused his presentation on the effort to deal with the major fiscal challenges that were being experienced during his time at the Ministry of Finance in Jamaica and the strategies that brought about significant improvements. CARICAD is now designing and developing a FROM LEFT: CARICAD’s Executive Director Devon Rowe, Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, the Honourable Audley Shaw and CEO of MIND and CARICAD Board Director, Dr. Ruby Brown during the presentation of the award. training intervention for the members of Parliament as Jamaica seeks to improve its Macro-Fiscal oversight of its public finances. SOURCE: Adapted from the Jamaica Gleaner. To view full article, visit: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20170815/mind-presents-leadership-awards-public-servants 3
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