Contract Employment as a strategy to improve service delivery in the Public Sector

1. Contract Employment as a strategy to improve service delivery in the Public Sector

2. EVOLUTION OF CIVIL SERVICE September 1999 Public Service Division was created in the President’s Office The PSD acts as the central body for public service reform and modernization of the country The new constitution and the reform package led to the establishment of independent institutions

3. T H E D E M O C R A T I C R E F O R M S 2003 the citizenry in Maldives demanded for a comprehensive democratic reform June 2005 Maldivian Parliament unanimously voted to legally recognize political parties 2008 a new constitution was introduced Executive Became independent Judiciary Legislature

4. I N D E P E N D E N T I N S T I T U T I O N S Auditor General’s Office Civil Service Commission Election’s Commission Judicial Service Commission Prosecutor General’s Office Human Rights Commission of the Maldives

5. C I V I L S E R V I C E C O M M I S S I O N Organizational Development and creating jobs Revise and improve human resource management procedures, protocols and regulations Ensuring strategic development & reform Creating a professional civil service through training & development Ensuring staff performance and compliance Ensuring employee rights through investigation, litigation and appeals Performance Management – Staff appraisal & Compliance Audit

6. DIFFERENT TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT Public service employment grew rapidly over 2000-2006, from 27,000 to 33,000 persons, but since then has reduced slightly. In the years (2006-2009) permanent Maldivian staff has reduced from 30,000 to about 24,000 and has been steadily replaced by contract and temporary staff In the year 2010; around 91 per cent of employees worked full-time, with the remaining 9 per cent working as temporary, contracted or retired & contracted

7. CONTRACT EMPLOYMENT • With the implementation of Civil Service Commission, in the year 2008 contract employment was introduced for the first time in an official manner in the public sector of the Maldives. • In the last three years (2006-2009) permanent Maldivian staff has reduced from 30,000 to about 24,000 and has been steadily replaced by contract and temporary staff. • Contract employment is becoming more prevalent. To some extent this is nothing new. • Contract employment especially in the education and labour field has long been a part of the Maldivian economy but the face of contract employment is changing. • It is now found within all industries and occupations as well as public service, and cuts across demographic and socio-economic groups

8. Appointment of Permanent Secretaries • Civil Service Act (CSA) requires Permanent Secretary (PS) shall be created in the Office of the President, the Ministries and the Attorney General’s Office, and a person shall be appointed to that position and where a government ministry is abolished the position of Permanent Secretary is abolished • The CSA also provided key activities to be implemented by the end of 2008 such as; • Finalization of important regulations within CSC and the overall civil service, • Code of Conduct, • Establishment and hiring of key positions such as Permanent Secretaries and classification of all posts within the Civil Service.

9. Recruitment and Selection process for Permanent Secretaries

10. General Duties and Responsibilities of Permanent Secretaries

11. Dismissal of Permanent Secretaries

12. Challenges

13. Thank you

14. Group Discussion Points • Management approaches used by the public officials operating under the contract system • Performance Measure and reward under the system he contract system • Potential of leadership of senior public servants under contract • Whether this system impinges on independence and influence of the public servant