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BRIEF ON THE DIRECTORATE OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND PENSIONS FOR THE YEAR 2005 STATE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL RETREAT. (a) Name of Ministry/Establishments : Office of the Head of Service, Directorate of Establishments and Pensions, Asaba. (b) Assigned Responsibilities and functions These are as follows - (i) Establishments
matters, including staff complements and grading, including co-ordination
of the grading in the Civil Service and Parastatals, appointments,
discipline, absorption, advancement, upgrading, determination of seniority,
incremental credits and enhanced entry point; (iii) Salaries,
wages, allowances, compensation, pay research, salary review, conditions
of service including implementation and continuous review of the Civil
Service Rules and Regulations;
MISSION
STATEMENT/ POLICY OBJECTIVES
Policy
Objectives (a) Provision
of adequate training programmes for public servants in the State; (c) Acting as an interface between the Trade Unions in the Service and the State Government as an employer of labour in order to ensure industrial harmony in the State, (d) Providing guidelines on the interpretation of Circular letters and providing relevant updates on schemes of service aimed at improving the quality of personnel in the different cadres.
ACHIEVEMENTS RECORDED IN YEAR 2004. Infrastructural Development: The table below shows a break-down of what was allocated to this Directorate for capital development, what was spent and the services provided:
Training and Manpower Development: During the period under review, the Directorate carried out its normal training programmes as follows: (a) Regular, long term, in- service training programme was approved for 94 officers in the following order: - P.hd Students - 5 M.Sc Students - 41 P.G.D " - 5 Law School Students - 5 Co-operative Sch. - 35 Veterinary School - 2 Sch. Of Journalism -1 Total = 94
(b) 21 in- house workshops were organized. A total of 735 officers attended the workshops.
(c) Approval was granted for 118 officers to go on study leave with pay, while 66 officers were sent on study leave without pay.
(d) Short - term
external workshops were approved for 130 officers. The workshops were
organised by different bodies including; Budgetary Provision:
The budgetary provisions for training and manpower development in
2004 includes; (a) In- house workshop - N6 million (b) Training- General (In -service training and short-term external courses) - N18 million -N24. million Pensions Administration: During the period under review, a total of 494 persons retired from the Service. Their benefits were speedily computed. Following the computations, a total of N132, 610,762.64 was paid as Pension benefits and another sum of N414,045,834.77 was also paid as gratuity to the retired workers, by Government.
Statutory Publications : Other achievements recorded by the Directorate during the period under review include the publication of the 2003 editions of its statutory publications including the Senior Staff List and Selected Circular letters. In addition to these, the Directorate is working on the publication of the Revised Public Service Rules which will soon be completed and distributed to Government establishments.
Constraints : The above achievements not withstanding, the Directorate faced a major constraint in the area of finance and that is poor funding which hampered full achievement of the goals set for it for the year under review.
POLICY THRUST FOR 2005 In 2005, the Directorate intends to intensify its programmes in accordance with its assigned responsibilities. Manpower Development: Effort will be made to enhance the knowledge of Civil Servants which will obviously impact positively on their performance. The Staff Development programmes will be intensified in order to keep abreast with the changes in our ever dynamic world.
Infrastructure ; In the 2005 budget estimates, the Directorate sought for enough funds that would enhance greater capital development. Unfortunately, the approved sum of N8m is far less than what the Directorate was given in past years. Nevertheless, we intend to manage the available fund to meet, as much as possible, our targets for the year.
Strategies for target attainment, The Directorate has properly scheduled its programmes so that particular targets have been set out for each quarter of the year. Again,in view of limited funds, we intend to take some cost effective measures such as direct purchase of equipment. We shall also make use of Government facilities such as the Government Printing Press for all our publications.
Human Resources Application and Development: The Directorate is fully aware that any success that will be achieved in the new year, will depend to a large extent, on the proper use of its personnel. To this end, it will carry out strategic deployment and mobilisation of staff for target attainment.
Revenue Receipts: The Directorate of Establishments and Pensions - strictly speaking is not a revenue generating establishment. However, it conducts examinations for which candidates pay some prescribed and token fee. The money realised is paid into Government treasury on receipt. Below is the profile of revenue generated in 2004 :
The record above, shows that the Directorate made a 195% performance in revenue generation in 2004. Strategy for enhanced Revenue Generation: In order to make the Staff Training Centre a greater source of revenue generation for Government, the Directorate has sought the support of the Ministry of Housing to provide hostel accommodation in the school, as a way of getting larger student enrolment for the school. This will boost enrolment fees for the institution. At the same time, the Directorate will embark on aggressive publicity for the school, its hall and the various examinations conducted by the Directorate.
DIRECTORATE OF ESTABLISHMENTS AND PENSIONS JANUARY 2005. |
