Public Service : Modernisation Process Intensifies

“Modernisation of the Cameroonian Civil Service: Stakes, Challenges and Prospects.” This is the theme of the national symposium on the public service which opens today, January 12, 2020 at the Yaounde City Hall. Organised by the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms (Minfopra), the symposium is placed under the patronage of the President of the Republic. For three days, public administrators, human resource managers, municipal authorities and officials in charge of services of decentralised local authorities, opinion leaders, trade unions, as well as university students will have a multidisciplinary reflection on the challenges and opportunities for the modernisation of the Cameroonian public administration. 
The experts will, among other things, make a retrospective and prospective look at the management of the State human resources; analyse the different statutes of State personnel while taking into consideration the different formalities, modalities and procedures of their management. Experts will also make a critical reading of the civil service texts, formalities and procedures in force with the purpose of harmonising and rationalising the management of the State's human resources in a bid to enhance the contribution of the public sector to the development process. The choice of the symposium’s theme, the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reforms, Joseph LE, says is explained through the desire to ma...