FG to reform Federal Civil Service for effective service delivery

The Federal Government started a two-day sensitisation workshop, on Tuesday, in Abuja to change the Federal Civil Service for effective service delivery.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, affirmed, open the workshop on “Key Implementers of Reforms Programme”.

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan

Yemi-Esan disclosed that the workshop was to map a new plan for the civil service for an improved performance.

She clarified that it was with a view to continue the transformation drive of the “Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) of 2017 to 2020.”

The FCSSIP was established in 2017 to become effective in the year 2020.

The procedure was to guarantee that the operations in the public service help mirror the Efficient, Productive, Incorruptible and Citizen-centred (EPIC) culture in the service.

As indicated by Yemi-Esan, FCSSIP is established to bring a few changes which include improved staff competence and skills in the civil service of the country.

Others include bringing a more innovative civil service from within and outside the service to advance service delivery through dedicated innovation unit and innovation challenges.

She declared that the workshop would give the shareholders the opportunity to make inputs to the successor plan of the FCSSIP from 2021 to 2025.

Yemi-Esan said, “It is aimed at having a New Federal Civil Service that is world-class for accelerated national development.”

She, further, entrusted the participants to draw lessons from old civil service as implementers of the old plan so as to reposition the new plan.

She stated, “We have done the old plan for about four years now and the plan ended in 2020 and so, we need to move forward, learn lessons, and know the challenges to reposition the sector.

“What we are doing now is to look at the work that has been done in the old plan to access success and lapses and to improve on the lapses.”