Liberia: Public Sector Modernization Project

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The development objective of the Public Sector Modernization Project for Liberia is to improve pay and performance management in participating ministries, and strengthen payroll management in the civil service in Liberia. The project has four components. The first component is improving pay management. This component addresses two key functional problems relating to salary levels: (i) the challenge of the civil service to attract and retain competent managerial and professional staffs; and (ii) low levels of motivation and engagement among existing civil servants which undermines individual work effort. The second component, strengthened payroll management will address two functional problems: (i) the lack of effective payroll discipline that has facilitated entries into the payroll without due process; and (ii) weak establishment control leading to escalating wage bill. The third component, improved performance will address one functional problem. That is, the challenge of management to hold staff accountable for their performance in ensuring service delivery. It will also address an important structural problem namely, overlapping mandates, and weak management structures for the civil service. The fourth component is project and program management. The objective of this component is to support the coordination and delivery of project inputs and overall implementation program.