World Bank/Government hold consultative workshop on public service

Accra (Greater Accra), 17 March '99 -

A three-day consultative workshop on the reform programme of the public service, being organised by the government and the world bank, opens at Volta Hotel at Akosombo today, March 17. About 70 delegates from the Executive wing of government, led by Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, the Vice-President, Parliamentarians, the Judiciary, Civil society, the private sector, the Trades Union Congress and the donor community are expected to attend. Key issues to be considered are the review of the new roles and functions of regulatory agencies and the draft legal framework to enable the Subvented Agencies Reform to be implemented. Others are the consideration of the list of subvented agencies to be closed, commercialised or restructured to generate income to cover 30-70 per cent of their cost, alternative employment and out-placement programmes to manage any redundancies that may occur.