The Abu Dhabi Award for Excellence in Government Performance is the most visible aspect of the programme and will provide a major platform in supporting the Vision for Abu Dhabi.

 The Award promotes:

·    Understanding of the requirements for excellence in government and competitiveness for improvement throughout the government service

·     Sharing of information and knowledge of successful improvement strategies

The Vision
To enable the realization of Abu Dhabi as one of the top 5 governments in the world

The Mission

To provide the required enablers and techniques to enhance the organizational performance of all government bodies in Abu Dhabi, through the adaptation of Total Quality & Excellence principles leading to people development, process improvement, procedures simplification, hence achieving better key performance outcomes

Objectives

·     To improve the government performance through raising service standards and practices and the promotional excellence principles

·     Widely promote best practices in governance through providing a roadmap and criteria for benchmarking locally and internationally

·     To encourage and support positive competition and cooperation in the government sector.

·     To highlight and emphasize the importance of the strategic planning formulation and efficient and effective execution by all government organizations in Abu Dhabi

·     To motivate and recognize excellent performance in government and encourage innovation both at the organizational level as well as the individual level

The Abu Dhabi Award for Excellence in Government establishes proven guidelines that can be used by all entities within the Government service to measure their own excellence improvement endeavours and guide entities through the sharing of information detailing how excellent entities are able to change their cultures and achieve outstanding performance.

The Award Office
The Award is developed, administered and managed by the Award Office Team. The Award Office is responsible for the implementation, supervision and control of all aspects of the programme to include:

·     Adequacy of the Abu Dhabi Excellence Model

·      Promoting awareness and understanding of the Award

·     Selection of Jurists, Assessors and other contributors

·     Provision of advice and guidance to entities

·     Training of assessors and other contributors

·      Management of the completed submission documents and the assessment process

·     Managing the Awards Ceremony

·     Dissemination of learning and best practice