A 16-member National Steering Committee on Conference of African Ministers of Public and Civil Service (CAMPS) has been inaugurated in Accra to develop an action plan to improve on Public Sector performance in Africa.
The committee is tasked to dwell on three out of the 10 thematic areas to help shape the sector.
The areas, which are in line with recommendations of CAMPS under the auspices of African Union Secretariat, include All Africa Public Service Innovation Awards (AAPSIA), Public Service Day Celebration, and Leadership and Management Development.
This follows the selection of Ghana as Second Vice Chair to CAMPS at its meeting in Abuja in February this year to act as Co-champion to spearhead implementation of the thematic areas to create capacity within public administrations of member states to ensure delivery of effective and efficient services to their citizens.
Champion or Co-champion refers to a member state that has been requested and agreed or volunteered to spearhead the implementation of a
thematic area within the overall thematic implementation framework.
Ministers of Africa responsible for the public and civil service meet every two years at CAMPS to deliberate on issues affecting public
governance.
Inaugurating the committee in Accra on Friday, Mr Alhassan Azong, Minister of State at the Presidency in-charge of Public Sector Reforms noted that public and civil service were critical institutions in governance and national administration, therefore there was the need for consultations across countries, boundaries and peoples for improved performance.
"Public and civil servants must be essentially effective if government machinery must be seen to be on the high performance index to bring positive end results for policies, programmes and activities rolled out by
governments," Mr Azong said.
He tasked the committee to facilitate identification of innovative mechanisms to fast track implementation of the thematic areas to build capable developmental States in Africa in the long run through a virile public and civil service.
Mr Azong, who is also Member of Parliament for Builsa South acknowledged that the task might be challenging but expressed the hope that members of the committee, who were top management level personnel of various public and private institutions, would work hard to meet the challenges.
Mr Robertson Allotey, a nominee from the Public Services Commission, on spoke on behalf of the committee urged his colleagues to put the interest of their countries first and deliver their best for the success of the project.