Africa-Press – Angola. Public tenders for entry into the Civil Service will be faster, transparent and secure, revealed yesterday in Luanda, the director general of the Institute of Administrative Modernization.
In order to achieve this objective, the Executive adopted the Integrated Recruitment System (SRI), a technological platform that integrates services for the gestation and operationalization of procedures for recruiting candidates for the Central Administration.
Meick Afonso assured that the intention is to institute, within the framework of the measures resulting from the State Reform, a new procedure in the environment of public entrance examinations, aiming to provide the system with greater rationality, impartiality, rigor and credibility.
The official, who addressed the matter exclusively to Jornal de Angola, maintained that the Executive intends, thus, to dematerialize and digitize technical-operational procedures, to allow a simplified structuring of recruitment processes in the Central Administration.
The director-general of the Institute of Administrative Modernization, Meick Afonso, said that the objective is also to reinforce transparency and restore the participants’ confidence in the veracity of the outcome of the contests, obviously guaranteeing speed with the use of information technologies. .
The Administrative Modernization Institute (IMA), whose mission is to ensure technological support for State Reform projects, provides the necessary modernization dynamics in recruitment processes, having developed, for this purpose, the technological platform called Integrated Recruitment System. (SRI).
He explained, by the way, that the Institute of Administrative Modernization (IMA) is an organ of the Indirect Administration of the State that works under the supervision of the Holder of the Executive Power.
From a practical point of view, the monitoring process is carried out by the Minister of State and head of the Civil House of the President of the Republic.
Meick Afonso underlined that “today we do not think of a Public Administration without technology, which is why an international model was designed to guarantee the efficiency of services”.
He added that another objective of the IMA has to do with the elaboration of an agenda of digital transition of the Public Administration in order to allow the harmonization of the other initiatives.
He also referred that the mission of the Institute for Administrative Modernization is to make technology allow the Government to provide a more modern, simpler public service within the reach of all citizens.
In this context, the Single Recruitment Entity (ERU) emerges as a body created by the Executive to provide more transparency to the process of entering the Public Service.
“After listening to the citizens, the Executive concluded that the processes for joining the Civil Service are seen as not very transparent and very time consuming”, stressed the interlocutor.
Director Meick Afonso shared that the Institute currently has 66,579 applications, which were submitted, in the last three months, for five public tenders, with emphasis on filling vacancies in the ministries of Health, Higher Education, Science and Technologies, Economy, Justice and Human Rights, Energy and Water.
Public tenders, he said, take five to six months to be carried out, through manual procedures. Currently, he maintained, with the start-up of the Integrated Recruitment System (SIR) the process takes only 45 days.
“We have here a gain from the point of view of saving time, which allows the citizen to feel responsible and honestly included in the recruitment process”, he said, concluding that the Executive’s intention is to bring back the feeling of trust and transfer to the citizenry.
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