OPM Mission - October 2011

Newsletter of the OPM IDTT

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Changes to Subjects and Departments of OPM

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was one of the four agencies where the first actions around the public sector implementation plan rolled out on July 1, 2011.

The function of the OPM as defined in the plan is: To address cross-cutting over-arching issues of national import that will impact on all Jamaicans.

The OPM was divested of the meteorological; land policy and administration; and environment and risk management divisions. The Ministry of Water, Housing and the Environment received most of those agencies. The Development Bank of Jamaica went to the Ministry of Finance and the e-Learning project to the Ministry of Education.

The incoming agencies are the National Identification System, Jamaica Productivity Centre and the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Environment (CHASE) fund.

The OPM has therefore completed the first steps of the implementation plan and efforts are now being made to encourage departments and divisions to review internal operations that will improve performance towards goals.

Our inter-disciplinary transformation team (IDTT) has been charged with managing the change process by identifying and implementing the transformation activities. The full list of the OPM IDTT members and other matters related to the Ministry's public transformation efforts is on the OPM webpage Staff Area The link to that section is:
http://www.opm.gov.jm/PSTU-OPM-IDTT

What is Shared Corporate Services?
There are advances being made to gather operations that are essential but not core functions of an entity to provide shared corporate services in a timely and effective way. These services include: procurement, management information systems, audit, legal services, public relations, human resource management, industrial relations and asset management. 

The role of Government was guided by the Prime Minister in Parliament on September 30, 2009

1. A safe, healthy and secure environment
2. Effective and accessible justice system
3. Good quality education system
4. Access to basic health care
5. Social welfare support for the disadvantaged and vulnerable
6. Public infrastructure and related services
7. Efficient public bureaucracy
8. An appropriate policy environment and regulatory mechanisms and
9. Effective diplomacy.

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