The Minister of Local Government, James Musoni on October 8, 2012 launched the ‘Management for results’ training for local government leaders at La Palisse Hotel in Gashora.
The week-long training will see officials in local governments upgrade their management skills to deliver results.
The training conducted by Korean experts particularly targeted mayors, directors of planning and Vice mayors in charge of Finance and Economic Development and Vice Mayors in charge of Social Affairs as well as Provincial, City of Kigali and District Executive Secretaries.
The training is a continuation of the leadership development training that was also attended by Local Government Leaders in May and September 2011.
Other similar trainings are taking place at lower levels of local governments such as the sectors and cells for Executive Secretaries in the context of implementing the local government capacity building plan.
Through the trainings leaders will be empowered with skills and capacities to improve their performance and expedite realization of the country’s socio-economic transformation.
“The Government is building capacities for local government officials purposely to promote efficiency, effectiveness and to develop in them self-confidence, patriotism, sacrifice so as to have dignified Society and Nation,” minister Musoni said.
Such trainings, minister Musoni said, are designed to provide technical skills and develop values such as integrity and clarity of purpose among Local government leaders.
He added it was important for leaders to exhibit professionalism by providing people-centered services with urgency and responsibility, echoing that one cannot achieve results without such values.
The training provided chance for participants to inter-relate management for results skills with leadership development skills.
The Government says the trainings will help Local Government officials understand their crucial roles and responsibilities in Rwanda’s socio-economic transformation and more especially managing for results, which should provide answers to different challenges facing local government leaders, specifically in planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
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