Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) have signed Annual Performance Agreement for the FY 2016-17 in presence of Mr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Principal Secretary of PMO in order to make Bangladesh a middle-income country by implementing Vision-2021. Ms. Suraiya Begum, ndc, Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office and Major General Mohd Habibur Rahman Khan, ndc, psc, the Executive Chairman, BEPZA signed the agreement on behalf of their organization at the conference room of PMO on 28/06/2016.
However, according to the APA of 2015-16, the organizations under the PMO able to achieve 92.86% target in the first nine months of the FY. BEPZA leads the way among the organizations achieving 99.65% target. BEPZA set 48 performance indicators against the five strategic objectives i.e. promotion of investment, boost up export, employment & workers welfare, improvement of services and transfer of technology for the APA of 2016-17 FY. The number of indicator was 47 in the FY 2015-16 and 26 in the FY 2014-15.
The institutions other than BEPZA under the PMO i.e BOI, BEZA, PPP Authority and NGO Affairs Bureau have also signed the APA for the FY 2016-17. This agreement has been signed for the third time to encourage the bodies under PMO to ensure an efficient, effective & dynamic administrative system through establishment of good governance at all levels of administration and to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative activities of the organizations. Mentionable that, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on June 30, 2014 for the first time on the above-mentioned purposes.
As a tool of performance management government has taken initiative to introduce performance agreement system in different ministry/department with their respective departments/agencies to ensure institutional accountability, transparency, proper use of public resources, uphold the organizational success in a measurable way and for the improvement of the organizational efficiency in public sector. As part of this initiative, the vision, mission, objectives and activities of the organizations has been reviewed in details and according to this, the most important Performance Indicators have been determined to achieve the objectives of the organization. In view of Performance Indicators, the activities and targets of organization have been determined. Annual Performance Agreement (APA) will create obligation to the organizations.
Among other Mr. Md. Abdul Halim, Director General, GIU including other high officils, Mr. Abdul Halim Molla, Member (Investment Promotion), Mr. Md. Shawkat Nabi, Secretary and Mrs. Nazma Binte Alamgir, General Manager (Public Relations) of BEPZA were present in the signing Ceremony.
