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PWD benefits from Cayman Islands Project Future Review

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PWD benefits from Cayman Islands Project Future Review
  1. Increasing efficiency and productivity and reduce the cost to government of PWD activities.
  2. Increasing customer satisfaction with the services provided by PWD.
  3. Ensuring effective procurement, contracting and contract management of any supplies, services or works carried out by the private sector.
  4. Maintaining, and if possible enhancing, national resilience and emergency management capability.
  5. Enhancing opportunities for technical and vocational training, and promoting Caymanian employment.
  6. Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of whole-Government operations, through PWD taking on activities for other government entities.
  7. Designing and implementing a more efficient and effective process for the planning, design and delivery of public capital works.
  8. The Public Works Department (PWD) is a government entity which falls under the Ministry of Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure (PLAHI). Its primary purpose is the design, construction and maintenance of Government facilities. Located in a complex on the North Sound Road, the Department employs project managers, engineers, architects, administrative ptaff, HR professionals, supervisory personnel, and skilled trades staff.
  9. Project Future is the five-year programme of public sector reform launched by the Premier and Deputy Governor in November 2015. An update on the programme overall is available at: www.projectfuturecayman.com
  10. The full Strategic Assessment for the project can be found at: http://www.plahi.gov.ky as well as https://projectfuturecayman.com/
  11. Project Future is utilising a best-practice approach to managing what is a wide-ranging and complex programme of change. Strategic Assessments, the first stage in that process, establish the objectives for the project, identify the case for change, and test a long list of options. This leads to the creation of a short-list to progress, and then to more detailed analysis in Outline Business Cases.

Published November 8, 2016

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