Civil Service Begins Landmark Audit To End Reforms By Assumptions

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, has declared that a broad unit audit is captious to ending decades of betterment based connected specified assumptions successful the national bureaucracy.

She stated this yesterday successful Abuja portion inaugurating a three-day retreat for the Personnel Audit and Skills Gap Analysis (PASCA) initiative, a cornerstone of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025.

Addressing a gathering of steering committee members, implementation teams, and consultants, Walson-Jack framed the workout arsenic a pivotal nationalist duty straight tied to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

In her invited address, the caput of Service outlined the transformative imaginable of the audit, moving beyond elemental headcounts to a elaborate mapping of the service’s quality capital.

“This task volition springiness america what we person agelong needed: a credible and verifiable unit database that captures not conscionable numbers but skills, competencies, and workforce organisation crossed the service,” she said.

While emphasising the displacement to evidence-based governance, she added, “Without specified data, reforms hazard being anchored connected assumptions. With it, we tin nonstop capableness gathering wherever it is astir needed, deploy resources strategically, and program for the adjacent procreation of civilian servants.”

Placing a important work connected the pb consultant, Philips Consulting Limited, and the 15 clump consultants, Walson-Jack charged them with meticulous execution.

“The clump consultants indispensable beryllium meticulous, ensuring that information postulation and fieldwork are executed diligently. The credibility of this exercise, therefore, rests connected your professionalism, attraction to detail, and fidelity to the agreed methodology,” she stated.

She urged each participants to guarantee the retreat produces a unified and workable methodology that is implementable and susceptible of serving arsenic a notation constituent for aboriginal reforms.

The caput of Service besides reminded the participants that the eventual extremity of a reformed civilian work is to amended governance for each Nigerians.

“A well-structured civilian work is not an extremity successful itself but a means of delivering efficient, accountable, and responsive governance to citizens,” she said.

The president of Phillips Consulting, Mr. Foluso Phillips, portion speaking with journalists aft the opening ceremony, elaborate the ambitious multi-phase plan.

“The full workout we are embarking connected is archetypal of each to verify who truly is simply a civilian servant. When we’ve done that, we privation to place what are the capabilities, competence, and strengths of each individual.

“Identify the kinds of jobs that we request to fill, and the benignant of radical we request to capable these jobs, and past statesman to woody with the existing gaps,” helium said.

Looking beyond the contiguous task, Phillips hoped the national inaugural would go a blueprint for the country.

“Not lone astatine the national level, we are hoping that adjacent astatine the sub-national level, each the authorities governments volition statesman to replicate what is being done astatine the national level, to guarantee that the radical we person successful place, moving successful this country, are acceptable for purpose,” helium said.