The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), Dr. Aliyu Abdullahi has launched the Performance Management System (PMS) aimed to enhance service delivery, improve the performance of the staff, and develop the agriculture sector.
The minister made this known during the launching of PMS Day at the Ministry’s Conference Room in Abuja. Abdullahi said the “PMS would support the development of the framework for the continuous enhancement of staff and organisational competence as well as capacity through the identification of knowledge and skills gaps”.
He pointed out that it would “provide clear and robust guidelines for implementing performance management in the public service and ensure effective coordination of government management”.
Also the system, the minister noted, would “provide an integrated performance management system for alignment of policy, planning, budgeting, and target setting at the institutional and individual levels”.
The Permanent Secretary FMAFS Mr. Temitope Fashedemi said that ‘’PMS is a systematic process that involves planning work, setting targets, providing support to employees, and measuring of expectations. It also provides a framework for tracking employee performance and improving their capacity through training to perform their jobs’’.