This initiative, contained in the 2017-2020 Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan, developed by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, is designed to create an innovation culture across the service to shift the perception of MDAs as cost centres to revenue earners.
The document indicates that “fee for service” would be introduced where MDAs earn revenue for services like consulting, training, facility rentals among others.
Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winnifred Oyo-Ita, noted that the document was reviewed at various levels and with eight priority areas of identified and selected based on their potential for impact in the short term and their relevance as approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on 12th July, 2017.
She also noted that by 2020, the implementation of the strategy is expected to deliver N60 to N120 billion savings from cleaning Human Resource data on Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), adding that there would N2.5 billion annual savings from digitalised content and at least 25,000 civil servants trained through revamped core modules.
She said: “The FCSSIP when fully implemented will no doubt go a long way in engendering a robust civil service instititution that is efficient, productive, incorruptible, and citzencentred (EPIC).
“The strategy will also generate a crop of skilled, motivated, disciplined and innovative civil servants that will change current perception of the Nigerian civil servants and foster linkages between the public and private sectors in fast-tracking the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
The document showed that the innovation has other benefits, including improved speed and quality services, new products, reduced cost, as obtainable in Kenya, where launch of an open data portal was said to have improved access to data leading to the development of over 100 mobile applications, and an estimated savings of US $1 billion in procurement cost.
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