Responsible personalities of the Secretariat discuss two docs

(Parliament News): May 22, 2021; Bishoftu: Responsible personalities for the work process of the Secretariat of the House of Peoples’ Representatives held discussions on two separate draft docs at Bishoftu of the Oromia region, recently.

Directors, team leaders and concerned personnel of the House conducted the consecutive two days deliberative discussion on Service Delivery Guideline and the Information Delivery Handbook draft docs being coached by Dr Misrak Mekonnin, the Secretary-General and Ato Tamir Kebede, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Secretariat.

During the discussion, the Secretary-General said; the Service Delivery Guideline must clearly indicate the where, who to be requested, the when and the how elements of seeking and receiving the service in need. The doc’s main purpose is enabling the service seekers acquire the services as immediate as possible, she added.

The two heads of the Secretariat recommended, the doc shall be upgraded as per the comments and suggestions from attendees within the next fortnight and shall be handed over to the appropriate body of the Secretariat.

The Committee members’ in-charge of producing the draft doc replied, they welcomed all the inputs. Yet they explained, the doc is not a comprehensive one that should incorporate all the service related issues other than the abridged services info of the Secretariat of the House.

The next doc: Information Delivery Handbook hosted numerous comments and suggestions which are much stronger than the preceding one. Most of the forwarded ones are against the first chapter of the draft book, which is about the historical evolvement of parliament in Ethiopia. The chapter shall be diminished as per the main intention behind the book and the whole content shall have similar pattern were the dominant ideas.

Dr Misrak also supported the minimization of the history part of the draft doc saying, the prospective MPs shall be provided with info of immediate use other than facing the historical background or any element that distracts their info acquirement.

Despite all the hot deliberative discussions, all the attendees who forwarded their part appreciated the two Committees in-charge of producing the draft docs that took months to come-up to where they are.

By Asrat Addisu