He said further that the FoIA requires public institutions to proactively publish about 44 categories of information as outlined in Section 2 for information produced by or in relation to such bodies with present timelines in accordance with Section 7 of the Act.He suggested that the Freedom of Information units in all government agencies should be well resourced so that they would have the requisite capacity to execute their proactive disclosure mandate.
The Head of Service, he said should also encourage public institutions to digitalise their records which would make them preservable and easily accessible, while Government should ensure that capacity-building training on the Act takes place on a routine basis as opposed to an ad-hoc basis while ensuring that there are adequate funds provided for it.
He said further that organisations should ensure that Freedom of Information activities are mainstreamed in their core business mandate/activities so that they leverage on the already available funds to do various Freedom of Information activities as a matter of course.