Annexes 1: Tonga Economic and Public Sector Governance Performance Assessment Framework Objectives and outcomes EPSG development Tonga Australia Partnership for Development Outcome One: more efficient and effective public sector” “A objective to 2017 This is aligned with the and Outcome’ identified in the GoT’s Strategic Development Framework: ‘Impact’ ‘National Impact: A just, equitable and progressive society in which the people of Tonga enjoy good health, peace, harmony and prosperity National outcome: A sustainable, efficient and effective public sector that develops and implements policies and programs to enable private sector growth and deliver quality public services in Tonga End-of-strategy End-of-strategy outcome Intermediate outcomes (or Intermediate outcome/output Key assumptions outcome to indicators outputs) indicators 2016/17 End-of-strategy Public sector governance outcome one GoT agencies Percentage of planned Progress towards Number of public servants trained; Achievement in this area will be reform activities demonstrate developing sustainable performance ratings for advisers on largely dependent on the ongoing implemented according measureable human capacity building annual adviser performance commitment of GoT to undertaking to timetable; improvement in the systems assessments public sector reforms. Percentage of reform efficiency of public plans adequately service delivery resourced (budgets and actual) What evidence is there that individual activities (including advisory support and other capacity Interview key stakeholders Key evaluative from GoT & AusAID questions for development programs) are leading to public servants more effectively performing their roles? Consider context What are public servants doing differently as a result of training? outcome How are improvements in public sector staff, plans, systems and processes leading to system-wide capacity development and reform? End-of-strategy Economic and financial governance outcome two
Annexes 1: Tonga Economic and Public Sector Governance Performance Assessment Framework Objectives and outcomes EPSG development objective to 2017 Tonga Australia Partnership for Development Outcome One: “A more efficient and effective public sector” This is aligned with the ‘Impact’ and ‘National Outcome’ identified in the GoT’s Strategic Development Framework: Impact: A just, equitable and progressive society in which the people of Tonga enjoy good health, peace, harmony and prosperity National outcome: A sustainable, efficient and effective public sector that develops and implements policies and programs to enable private sector growth and deliver quality public services in Tonga End-of-strategy outcome to 2016/17 End-of-strategy outcome indicators Intermediate outcomes (or outputs) Intermediate outcome/output indicators Key assumptions End-of-strategy outcome one Public sector governance GoT agencies demonstrate measureable improvement in the efficiency of public service delivery Percentage of planned reform activities implemented according to timetable; Percentage of reform plans adequately resourced (budgets and actual) Progress towards developing sustainable human capacity building systems Number of public servants trained; performance ratings for advisers on annual adviser performance assessments Achievement in this area will be largely dependent on the ongoing commitment of GoT to undertaking public sector reforms. Key evaluative questions for outcome What evidence is there that individual activities (including advisory support and other capacity development programs) are leading to public servants more effectively performing their roles? What are public servants doing differently as a result of training? How are improvements in public sector staff, plans, systems and processes leading to system-wide capacity development and reform? Interview key stakeholders from GoT & AusAID Consider context End-of-strategy outcome two Economic and financial governance
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