The Chief Executive Officer [CEO] of Public Sector Reform, Mr. Thomas Kusi Boafo has reiterated the president’s commitment to revamp the public sector in ensuring effective and efficient delivery of public services.
According to him this would boost the human resource capacity in the public sector to strengthen the Ghana Beyond Aid agenda of the government.
He disclosed this in a speech read on behalf of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Senior Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo Maafo at the mini launch of and sensitization on the National Public Sector Reform Strategy [NPSRS], 2018-2023 in Takoradi on Wednesday.
Dubbed on “Delivering for Citizens and Private sector,” the strategy among other things aims at reviewing and modernizing the current structures, systems, processes and internal management functions of the public sector to support government’s development priorities.
Mr. Kusi Boafo said the strategy would create a new public service that would fit–for-purpose and would help guarantee the delivery of high quality services for the Ghanaian people and the private sector.
“This strategy will help create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive, and thereby, create employment opportunities for the youth, within the context of government’s overall vision of a Ghana Beyond Aid,” he said.
He indicated that when Ghana attained independence in 1957, an efficient public service was bequeathed to the nation which over the years contributed its quota to the development and progress of the nation.
However, he bemoaned that in spite of how the public sector has helped the nation, Ghanaians in recent years have expressed dissatisfaction with the systems of service delivery in the sector, being it absenteeism or lateness, incompetence or corruption, the public sector today was not seen in good light by the general public.
Mr. Boafo further stated that successive Governments undertook various reforms of the public sector which yielded no result hence the Akuffo-Addo led government would resource public sector training institutions to help develop the requisite skills and knowledge needed for the delivery of modern public services.
In addition, he said “The process will also enhance the ethical foundation of the public sector and introduce change management initiatives to deal with apathy, resistance to change and reform fatigue, which have been the bane of previous attempts at reform.”
In improving conditions of public services, he stated that there would be a systematic review of public sector compensation in its entirety, with the institution of a suitable performance-based reward system to help guarantee increased productivity.
The review would pursue opportunities for upgrading office and provide necessary tools and equipment to improve the work environment within the service whilst inventory check system to take stock of all physical assets in the public service would be established.
Mr. Boafo assured Ghanaians that the reform strategy would not suffer the same fate as past ones due to the necessary measures that were in place to ensure its effective delivery.
“The office of the Senior Minister is to develop guidelines for mainstreaming the reforms into the regular functional activities of all MDAs and MMDAs in due course to ensure continuity, sustainability and consequently, the institutionalization of the reform initiatives,” he assured.
He posited that efficient public service would help realise the vision of a self-reliant, prosperous Ghana and it would serve as the impetus for re-shaping the country and charting a new path of growth and development in freedom which would help deliver a dignified, prosperous standard of life to the Ghanaian People.
The CEO urged members of the public service to embrace the NPSRS as it represents effective means for the creation of a quality public service that would deliver to meet the needs and expectations of the citizenry and the public sector.
By JOYCELINE NATALLY CUDJOE
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