A WORLD Bank team is due to arrive to Cyprus this Monday as part of an agreement to help reform the public service, ahead of a reform action plan to be announced by the president next week.
Commissioner for civil service reform Emanuella Lambrianides told the Cyprus News Agency the president will be announcing an action plan on modernising government and its institutions next week on Friday.
As part of its bailout agreement, Cyprus has agreed with its international lenders to reform its public administration. The government signed an agreement in early August with the UK’s public body, the National School of Government International (NSGI), a inter-departmental body dedicated to civil service reform. The body will offer consultancy services and will work alongside the World Bank.
Lambrianides said that during its visit, an 18-person World Bank team will look into the ministries of health, education and agriculture and will be accompanied by an NSGI team which will be looking into staff management, the state’s payroll, civil servants’ evaluation system and staff mobility. Later in the month, an NSGI team is due to look into local government and the Companies’ Registrar, Lambrianides said.
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