As part of efforts to reposition and curb misalignments in the civil service, the federal government is set to deploy data-driven reform to ensure transparent, data-based and performance-oriented civil service.
Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack, said this while speaking in Abuja yesterday at a sensitisation programme with directors and unit heads of the service organised by Knewrow Consultant on Personnel Audit and Skills Gap Analysis (PASGA).
Walson-Jack stated that the service had been bedevilled with issues of fragmented personnel information, hence the need for a data-driven reform to curb the anomalies.
She said, “As we are all aware, data remains the backbone of effective planning, deployment, and decision making.
“Over the years, the service has grappled with the challenge of fragmented and outdated personnel information, leading to inefficiencies and misalignments.”
The head of service, represented by Dr. Deborah Bakko, said PASGA was a flagship reform initiative designed to strengthen personnel data integrity, align competencies with organisational needs, and drive evidence-based human resource management across the Federal Civil Service.
According to Walson-Jack, the project also seeks to reflect Federal Civil Service Strategy unwavering commitment to innovation, talent optimization, and institutional excellence in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
She stated that through PASGA, the service was setting a new standard and a reform that will deliver accurate personnel records, identify existing skills gaps and support targeted training and redeployment, aligned with the evolving needs of government.
According to her, “The unique thing about this exercise is that it’s not just a personnel audit, but it’s also a skills gap analysis, we now have a tool that will ensure that we can assess each staff, appreciate what their competencies are, knowing what we want from them, document the gap, and plan for training for every staff.
“It will also help us to deploy staff as they should be and make sure that we have round pegs in round holes across the Federal Civil Service.
“So altogether, it’s an exciting opportunity for us to reinvigorate the Civil Service and ensure that together we have the personnel that we need to be able to deliver an efficient, productive, incorruptible, citizen-centred Federal Civil Service.”
In his response, Senior Managing Partner/CEO, Knewrow Consultant on Personnel Audit and Skills Gap Analysis (PASGA), Ayo Muritala, assured of professionalism and adequate data protection to avoid breach or misalignment in the data provided.
Muritala said, “All the system has been tested, and that’s why he took up the answering of the question that we wouldn’t have gone on the field if all those processes have not been tested to know that data is secured and data is safe.
“We have put every security in place in where data has been stored and of course, you could talk about two years ago, which I’m not aware of that glitch that you’re talking about. But what I can still tell you is that the system that has put in place has been tested.”
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