A delegation from The Gambia is wrapping up a five-day study tour to gain insights into Jamaica’s public sector transformation programme.
The delegation, led by Secretary General and head of the African nation’s civil service Salimatta Touray, arrived in the island on June 2 and is being hosted by the Transformation Implementation Unit in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service.
The Gambia is preparing a public administration and modernisation project to improve fiscal and human resource management (HR) capacity, according to a TIU statement issued on Thursday.
Touray said she believes The Gambia could benefit from studying Jamaica’s efforts to transform its public sector generally but more specifically in implementing the MyHR+, an integrated HR and payroll system across the public sector.
“On the advice of the World Bank, we were told to come to Jamaica because it has gone through its modernisation programme, and it has one of the best systems available. We’ve been learning a lot and definitely we see the vast difference the system can make to our operations in The Gambia,” she said, adding that the tour has been “very helpful” in gathering insights for Gambia’s transformation programme.
In the meantime, Executive Director of the TIU, Maria Thompson Walters said the study tour has provided good opportunity to share lessons with the Gambian team.
“It has been a pleasure hosting the delegation and I believe the tour has been beneficial. It is good to know that even as we are transforming our own public service, we can be of value to countries going through similar exercises,” she said.
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