GRENADA CARICAD is currently undertaking a multi-pronged project in Grenada, comprising five components across various Ministries/Departments. One of the critical components was a review of the effectiveness of select jobs with responsibility for Planning, Human Resource Management and Education Administration within the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development. Thirty jobs were targeted for analysis and development of output-based job descriptions. To date, 90% of the job descriptions submitted have been accepted and it is expected that this assignment will be completed at the end of July 2017. As a precursor activity to the development of the job descriptions, a high level training and coaching exercise targeting a core group of individuals (24) within the Department of Public Administration and the wider public service was conducted. These job analysis and job re-definition activities were executed by Rosemund Warrington, CARICAD’s Assistant Director, Programmes and Planning, and are part of a broader World Bank Project in Grenada coordinated by the Department of Public Administration. CARICAD has been informed that the trained job analysts are already utilising their skills to conduct job analyses within their respective ministries, and therefore, positive transfer of skills has been achieved. CARICAD’s Assistant Director, Programmes and Planning, Rosemund Warrington (at centre in blue), surrounded by participants from the high level job training and coaching exercise in Grenada. Participants were from the Department of Public Administration and the wider public service. DOMINICA CARICAD has just completed the evaluation phase of the project Designing and Developing a Comprehensive Public Sector Transformation Programme in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Rosemund Warrington, CARICAD’s Assistant Director, Programmes and Planning, is the lead project coordinator. The overall project involves a systematic evaluation of the national Reform Strategy to be followed by development of a new Transformation Strategy. CARICAD collaborated with Universalia, a Montreal-based management consulting firm with expertise in evaluation, to conduct that segment of the assignment. The evaluation phase also involved a benchmarking and research component, which 7 was launched via a roundtable discussion in Dominica. The discussion provided a forum for stakeholders - including the public sector, private sector, academia, unions and NGOs - to discuss past and present reform practices, lessons learned, success stories and elements that need to be strengthened, revised or adopted into the new Public Sector Transformation Strategy. A research report highlighting country experiences and suggesting prospects and possibilities for Dominica, has been presented to the Government of Dominica. The other phases of the project relate to a review of the Accountability Frameworks for Senior Public Sector Managers as well as the development of a New Public Sector Transformation Strategy, using a Results-based Management approach.
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