Public officers told to make more use of information in policy making
The opening of the workshop took place at the Public Service Training Centre, the venue for the one week of training.
Delivering the instructions will be Dr Philip H.J. Davies, Instructor at the Royal Institute of Public Administration International, United Kingdom.
Cabinet Secretary Ms Sandra Ward said the training is intended to support better decision making throughout the various stages of the policy process.
"I'm pleased that we have representation from all of the ministries and from the Governor's group. This will be the first in a series of training that the Cabinet office will be organising in relation to policy development in support of the Cabinet's constitutional mandate," she said.
"I am confident that with this training by Dr Davies we will see a change in how we develop policy," she said.
Taking the podium, Dr Davies said that the public officers must start using information a lot more.
“We have to find ways of making the evidence accessible, informative, and comprehensible and that is what we are going to look at this week."
He said that so great is the volume of information that if it is not properly organised it could swamp the officers and make their decision and policy-making that much harder.
In attendance at the opening ceremony were Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith who made brief remarks, Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7).
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These new jack are weak, can’t write a memo to save their life and even do not understand their roles as a PS….some only there because of Politricks