Project Background
UNDP’s support in this area focuses on supporting
efficient, responsive, transparent and accountable public
administrations in the following areas:
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Public Procurement Reform: UNDP supported the development
of the Public Procurement Policy, establishment and
capacity development of the National Public Procurement
Authority to ensure that it can guide, train and
oversee the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the
Government to ensure their compliance with the Public
Procurement Act 2004 and its full implementation.
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Creation of the Senior Executive Service (SES): UNDP
provides budgetary support to the SES implementation unit
at the Office of the President,
targeting civil servants with grades 11-14.
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Strengthening
Transparency and Accountability in the public sector
through support to the National Anti-Corruption
Commission, NPPA and the Local Government Service Commission.
Project Objectives
Building of
national procurement capacity and restructuring of the
civil service through the establishment of the Senior
Executive Service.
Project
Outcome
Public Administration Systems professionalized for
effective service delivery.
Links
with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
UNDP support
to modernizing the Sierra Leone public administration is
linked to achieving the MDGs in the following ways: 1. By
improving the efficiency of the public administration
through creation of SES will reduce costs on service
delivery while the savings are used for better pursuit of
MDG goals. 2. Increasing transparency and reducing
corruption through support to NPPA and the MTEF
Technical Team will reduce the misdirection of the scarce
resources away from achieving MDG goals.
Sierra Leone