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Ghana and World Bank sign supplementary funding
Accra, April 15, Ghanadot/GNA - The World
Bank (WB) and the Government of Ghana on Monday signed a
credit of 10 million dollars supplementary funding for the
ongoing Economic Managing Capacity Building Project (EMCB).
A WB statement to the Ghana News Agency in Accra said the
amount would be used to support the Government to perform
its role as a facilitator for economic development, through
implementing a reform initiative for improved public sector
management and service delivery.
The agreement, signed in Washington also proposed to
introduce certain changes in the project to reflect the
extended Public Sector Reform (PSR) activities.
Ms Juan Costain, Task Team Leader for the project, said the
proposed additional financing was to provide for expanded
activities for PSR activities which include the development
of a pay administration framework; job and pay-scale
evaluation (including a national survey); installation of a
time and attendance system; a performance management system
and an advocacy program to support adoption of the
initiative.
It will finance Government Development Communication
Enhancement Programme which seeks to overhaul the Ministry
of Information and National Orientation’s public
communication functions and those of other key ministries,
department and agencies.
The fund will also be used to develop and support the
implementation of a development communications strategy in
support of the PSR; design and build consensus for systemic
reforms of public sector pay; human resource management;
civil service training programmes and service delivery
improvement in public sector agencies.
Other programmes are modernization of records management;
improvement to conditions of work; implementation of reforms
in selected subvented agencies and the deployment of an ICT
backbone within the Civil Service to facilitate the
execution of Government programmes.
GNA
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