AMMAN —
Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh said on
Sunday that the month-long delay in announcing the public sector modernization
plan was due to the fact that several aspects of the institutional framework
had to be ironed out before starting to implement the roadmap launched by the
Economic Modernization Committee.
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At a press
conference held on Sunday to announce the output of the
Public Sector Modernization Committee, Khasawneh said that the road map identified seven
components that form the framework of the process of modernization of the
public sector and that need to be dealt with as top priority: government
services, procedures and digitization, organizational structure and governance,
policy and decision making, human resources, legislation, and nurturing an
institutional culture.
Khasawneh also
announced that “government ministries and departments will be merged between
2022 and 2024, without prejudice to the rights of workers or dispensing with
their services”, noting that the modernization committe assessed “97 government
departments and institutions, excluding the security services, armed forces,
and municipalities”.
Khasawneh added
that the seven components focus on serving the public in line with the output
of the economic and political modernization visions.
According to the
prime minister, the first phase of the program will end in 2025, when its
impact will be evaluated and the second phase will be designed.
Members of the
Public Sector Modernization Committee presented to His Majesty King Abdullah
the most prominent axes of the map, which includes 206 initiatives, of which 30
related to government services and nine aimed at streamlining and automating
government procedures.
The map also
includes 31 initiatives intended to enhance the flexibility and efficiency of
the government structure, 23 initiatives concerning good governance and
transparency, and 42 initiatives concerned with cross-governmental plans that
use digitization and impact assessment to support the decision-making process.
At the same
time, 35 initiatives are related to building public-sector leaders’ abilities,
22 initiatives are related to legislation that supports positive change, and 14
initiatives aim to develop a stimulating institutional culture, and to enhance
the environment that supports transformation and innovation.
The premier said
that the committee looked at the regulatory framework regulating the work of
the public sector and the mechanisms of existing governance, and at the policy
and decision-making mechanisms of public sector institutions, and ways to
promote human resources.
In the process
of integrating institutions, no public sector employee will be dismissed; those
who reached the legal age or the required years of service will qualify for retirement,
he reiterated.
Khasawneh
pledged to develop detailed implementation plans and clear performance
indicators to ensure the implementation of the modernization roadmap.
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