The Minister of State Administration and the Civil Service, Inocêncio Impissa, announced that the Mozambican government is going to introduce a new system for the centralised hiring of state employees and agents, an initiative aimed at reducing budget costs and ensuring greater efficiency.
Impissa explained that the initiative, which should have been implemented in 2022, with the entry into force of the new General Statute for State Officials and Agents (EGFAE), also aims to reduce the time taken to admit a very small number of officials, but more than 10,000 candidates end up appearing.
The minister announced this during a hearing called by the Committee on Public Administration and Local Government (CAPPL) of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), the Mozambican parliament, which took place on Saturday (20) in Maputo.
During the hearing, the deputies of the CAPPL (4th Labour Committee) had the opportunity to assess the prospects of the government’s Five-Year Programme 2025-2029 in the state administration and civil service sector.
‘There’s a district service, there’s a provincial directorate that’s opening a competition to hire just four civil servants. That’s disappointing because when people see the advert there are 10,000 people applying for four vacancies. It doesn’t make sense,’ said the minister.
According to Impissa, if the government needs to fill, for example, 10,000 vacancies, ‘it’s easy for us to hold a single centralised competition for which 20,000 or 30,000 people can apply, and that’s justified. But 10,000 people applying for 30 vacancies is unreasonable.’
The centralised competition is valid for three years. Therefore, explains Impissa, during these three years, if some sectors need to hire staff, they will be able to use the centralised platform and thus avoid having to open a new competition.
‘This will prevent citizens from having to chase down invitations to tender every day, spending paper and money to apply for a single vacancy. We think it will also be a model that could help to alleviate some of the citizen’s hopes regarding access to jobs in the Civil Service,’ he said.
It is worth remembering that in December 2021, parliament approved the EGFAE, which was combined with the introduction of the Single Salary Table, a platform that harmonised the discrepancy between the salaries of state employees and agents, as well as the centralisation of public tenders.
The parliamentary hearing precedes the plenary debate on the PQG 2025-2029, which should take place within the next seven days.
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