South Sudan’s Kiir orders civil service reform
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October 5, 2011 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit
has issued an order launching reform of the newly independent
country’s civil service.
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Salva Kiir (Reuters)
South Sudan became independent on 9 July as part of a peace deal
between southern rebels the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)
and Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
The agreement brought the SPLM to power in South Sudan for a six year
period until a self-determination referendum, sealed southern
independence in January this year.
When the SPLM began governing South Sudan as an autonomous region in
2005 its civil service was an amalgamation of its own civil service in
the areas it controlled and the Southern Sudan Coordinating Council
(SSCC) who were operating in areas controlled by the Khartoum
government.
According to data from the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and
Human Resource Development, 60 percent of the current workforce in
South Sudan is unqualified and therefore unproductive.
To counter this the government has initiated a process of absorbing
and reintegrating qualified South Sudanese civil servants who are
returning from North Sudan as well as from the Diaspora into the
nation’s civil service. All southern Sudanese public sector workers in
north Sudan were relieved of their positions after partition.
On Tuesday, President Salva Kiir ordered the civil service to weed out
employees who did not have the skills, qualifications or experience
for the job they were in. Education certificates from Sudan, South
Sudan and internationally will be checked as part of the process.
Kiir said the process should involve all levels of government from the
national government in Juba, to the ten state governments of South
Sudan as well as at county level.
With a tiny private sector, and some Southern Sudanese employed at
international charities, the UN and diplomatic missions in the capital
Juba, South Sudan’s government is nation’s main employer.
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