Institutional Development and Internally Generated Revenue for Permanent Secretaries, Benue State Government, Nigeria
RIPA International provided this tailored training programme at our London training venue for 24 participants, including permanent secretaries from a variety of ministries and senior executive officers from revenue collection departments, as well as the Head of the State Civil Service.
The programme provided senior public service managers with the knowledge and tools to identify a critical path for their leadership of organisational capacity development.
The programme aimed to meet the parameters that Benue State had stipulated: to assist the group to work together as a team to identify new areas of internally generated revenue and to strengthen existing areas by minimising leakage. Also, to prepare the team for the changes that are ahead through strategic mapping and change management processes.
The participants also:
- Focused on options and priorities for strategy enabling them to clarify their view, position and influence in their Government’s reform and modernisation agenda
- Refined effective financial management to drive efficiency in their organisation
- Considered the benefits and challenges of ICT based systems to manage records and information, increase efficiency and elevate organisational performance
- Investigated Internally Generated Revenue initiatives
- Developed a draft organisational capacity assessment – with vital areas for improvement for their organisation
- Developed a Balanced Score Card Strategy Map to incorporate the vital areas for improvement identified in their assessment into an organisational development framework and action plan with objectives, measures and targets
- Discussed concerns and received advice on managing their organisation’s role in the wider political environment
A visit was arranged to meet the CEO of the Royal Parks which was situated in the centre of London’s picturesque Hyde Park. The group were given an insight into revenue generating ideas which had succeeded for the Parks. These included hiring out space for events (the Park was preparing for 80,000 for the Pope’s visit), restaurants, licensing boats, letting of property and a host of ideas to stimulate thought.
Participative assessment to identify the vital areas for improvement necessary to strengthen organisational capacity provided senior management with the basic framework to complete a strategy map for their organizations that will enable them to lead the process of change, reform and modernisation.