The new Public Administration Sector Plan (PASP) was presented at the Human Resource Coordinators (HRC) Forum that was held on the 23rd October, 2020 as part of its communication and awareness campaign for key stakeholders in the public sector. The Assistant Chief Executive Officer for the Public Administration Sector Coordination Division – Ms. Osana Liki-Ward [...]
The Cabinet in its FK (20) 35 approved the commemoration of the Public Service Day (PSD) on the 25th of September 2020. However, due to the Cabinet Development Committee’s site visits which coincided with planned events, the PSD was therefore postponed to be celebrated on 2nd October, 2020. Similar to the PSD celebrations in 2018 [...]
The first intersessional meeting of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption on the preparations for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) was held on the 2nd – 4th of September, 2020 in Vienna, Austria. With border closure for COVID-19, Samoa’s participation was achieved through virtual means. [...]
The Office of the Public Service Commission through its Human Resource Development & Training Division (HRD) conducted a 3 day “Hire Me Training” that was held at the Public Service Commission (PSC) Conference Room from the 7th – 9th September 2020. The practical design of this training was designed to support the participants’ current efforts [...]
The Public Service Commission through its Human Resource Development Division delivered a five half days training on Conflict Management from Monday 22nd – Friday 26th June 2020. The main aim of this training was to build the capacity of employees to better manage conflict which may occur in workplaces. The participants were mainly from Stated [...]
The Office of the Public Service Commission through its Senior Executive Services Division have updated the Recruitment and Selection Manual Process for Senior Executives in its Circular Memorandum PSC 2019/2020 – 35 that was disseminated to all Government Ministries, Office of the Regulator, The Government Statistician and the Samoa Law Reform Commission. The amendments made [...]
The new financial year kicked off with the first Chief Executive Officers Forum held on the 3rd of July 2020, at the Samoa Conference Center, Sogi. The theme for this year’s Forum was “Coordination and Compliance to Efficiently and Effectively Deliver Government Services” The Honorable Prime Minister and Minister for the Public Service Commission – [...]
Read more articles from Public Administration Sector Plan Newsletter - Edition 21 here The Public Service Commission issued a Circular Memorandum 2019/2020-22 on the 23rd March 2020 informing all public servants of special working conditions in conjunction with the FK (20) Faapitoa 7 that was issued on Friday 20th March, 2020 declaring a State of [...]
Read more articles from Public Administration Sector Plan Newsletter - Edition 21 here The Honorable Prime Minister of Samoa – Afioga Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi attended the inaugural Pacific Regional Conference on Anti-Corruption that was held in Tarawa Kiribati on the 3rd- 6th February, 2020. This is the first meeting of its kind for the [...]
Read more articles from Public Administration Sector Plan Newsletter - Edition 21 here The new Public Administration Sector Plan 2020/2021 – 2024/2025 is ready to be launched. The development of the new Plan was premised on a review of the State of the Service, as well as an independent assessment of the previous PASP which [...]
