As opposed to PSRP I, PSRP II will employ a slightly different implementation arrangement which would aim to:

• Increase the relevancy and ownership of reforms by MDAs
•  Better connect reform interventions to service delivery improvements, and thus ensure reforms are linked to national development programmes, such as MKUKUTA
•  Given the large number of reforms being implemented by public institutions, better coordinate the reforms and ensure their complementarities

The approaches that will be used to meet these objectives include:

•  Employing an integrated, MDA led-approach that enables MDAs to select, plan, implement, and monitor their own reform packages.  Using this approach (1) PO-PSM will play a more facilitative and supportive role and (2) PSRP initiatives, at MDA level, into the Government’s planning, budgeting, and performance reporting processes as well as the Government’s accounting and exchequer system.
•  Improving PSRP Governance arrangements to facilitate accountability between Programme management and its clients or stakeholders
• Coordinating Reforms through a Reform Coordination Unit to be established in the Chief Secretary’s Office and through the Government’s planning and budget process.

PSRP II: Governance Arrangements

The PSRP governance arrangements are intended to provide strategic guidance to the programme, to approve the plans and budgets of the programme, to ensure the programme’s management is meeting the needs of its clients, and to monitor the implementation of PSRP. Three institutions will be employed:

PSRP Management Committee (PMC):

The role of the PMC will be to provide overall strategic guidance as well as review and monitor the performance of the PSRP.

PMC Sub-Committee on PSRP Resources: 

The role of this body will be to scrutinize and approve plans and budgets, to review performance reports, as well as audit the use of PSRP resources. 

Program Implementation Review (PIR):

The role of the PIR will be to review the day to day implementation of PSRP and prepare working papers (draft Implementation and performance reports, lead programme reviews (joint, internal, and external), draft Strategic and Operational plans, draft Reform Coordination Memo’s etc) to support the work of the PMC (through its sub-committee).

Coordinating PSRP with other Reforms

As part of the design of PSRP II, attention has been given to developing and establishing mechanisms for coordination of reform at central level, which will be more robust.

The Steering Committee for all Central Reforms

The Steering Committee for all Central Reforms will be responsible to guide and monitor the implementation of cross cutting reforms, with a particular focus on building on the synergies between various reform efforts. The Steering Committee will be composed of all Permanent Secretaries and will meet as a “Committee of the Whole” of the Inter-Ministerial Committee of Permanent Secretaries (IMTC).

The Public Sector Management Working Group

The Public Sector Management Working Group will be responsible for linking the work of cross cutting reforms within the framework of the Public Expenditure Review (PER) process.  In terms of membership, it will be composed of Directors of Policy and Planning from MDAs involved in the legal sector, governance, cross cutting reforms, public financial management and Gender.  Representatives of the  Development Partners as well as the MKUKUTA monitoring system will also be included.

The Stakeholders Conference on Public Sector Reforms

The Stakeholders Conference on Public Sector Reforms, held once every two years is a high-profile event in which the broad direction of all reform Programmes will be presented and debated by stakeholders, including civil society and private sector.

The Reform Coordination Unit

The unit will advise the Chief Secretary on how the Government’s reform initiatives can be better coordinated.  It will also act as Secretary of the Steering Committee of Public Service Reforms, the Public Sector Management Working Group and the Stakeholders Conference on Public Sector Reforms

The Reform Coordination Framework

The Reform Coordination Framework will integrate national strategies, reforms and sector development programs at service delivery agencies’ levels.