ZM-PSCAP (FY00)

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The Public Service Capacity Building Program Project aims at providing efficient, public service delivery processes, to facilitate economic growth, and reduce poverty. The five components are: 1) rightsizing and pay reform, which will bring about the restructuring required to rationalize government functions, and to generate the financial resources needed to initiate pay incentives. The main activities call for the separation of redundant staff, which includes monetary payment reforms, and, the establishment of a payroll control systems. Social safety net programs will be enhanced for civil servants, as will the capacity of the Public Service Commission in undertaking this restructuring; 2) policy and public service management, whose principal objectives are to establish policy formulation, and performance monitoring as the main focus of government, and, develop management capacity for the transformation of public services; 3) financial management, accountability, and transparency, which will develop the capacity to allocate public resources, and, improve public servants' accountability as per established priorities; 4) judicial and legal framework, to improve the capacity to undertake the legislative agenda, and, accomplish the urgent physical, and human capacity building in the Judiciary; and, 5) decentralization, whose purpose is the implementation of the government's Decentralization Policy.