Steps to strengthen oversight and control of public service recruitment and staffing.
Macroeconomic rationale: to strengthen oversight and control of the high and growing public payroll. At R1R2, partially met. The selective hiring freeze remains in place and new recruits by agencies included on the payroll database are audited on a monthly basis to verify consistency with budget provisions. The headcount of the Ghana Education Service was conducted by end-August. Only limited progress was made in the planned migration of all subvented agencies to the automated payroll database by end-September 2009, largely reflecting inadequate funding for software and consultants. Modified to new SB of "Migrate to the automated payroll system (IPPD2/3) all remaining nonsecurity subvented agencies."