The House Committee on Appropriations chaired by AKO BICOL Party-list Represetative Zaldy Co deliberated on the P2.06-billion budget proposal for 2024 of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the agency’s corresponding projects and programs for funding.
Presiding officer and Committee on Appropriations Vice Chairman Camarines 4th District Representative Arnie Fuentebella opened the briefing saying that the country now more than ever needs a civil service to face the needs of the citizenry as people live out to the new normal that they have been looking forward to embrace years ago.
The most paramount consideration for the successful implementation of the administration’s national programs and policies will entail further capacitating government as a whole and investing in its civil servants.
Fuentebella added that the most paramount consideration for the successful implementation of the administration’s national programs and policies will entail further capacitating the government as a whole and investing in its civil servants.
“An investment in our civil servants’ meritocracy, professionalism, and ethics will result in the efficient delivery of public services and will further encourage partnerships between the government and private sector.”
“An investment in our civil servants’ meritocracy, professionalism, and ethics will result in the efficient delivery of public services and will further encourage partnerships between the government and private sector. To carry out the lofty vision of President Marcos for the bureaucracy would entail an investment not only in technology but in the people’s skills and competence,” the legislator stressed.
During the budget briefing, CSC Chairman Karlo Nograles identified the following as some of the CSC major thrusts for next year:
1) formulating human resource policies responsive to the current needs and challenges of civil servants during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, such as flexible work arrangements and policy on night shift differential;
2) enhancing civil service systems and procedures for efficient public service delivery in support of Republic Act 11032 or the “Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act”;
3) digital transformation by shifting existing external service to digital gateway, as well as digitally enabling regional and field offices;
4) institutionalize human resource excellence in the bureaucracy through the Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM); and
5) adopting an additional method or mode of taking the Civil Service Examinations in light of more test takers and the demand for frequent administration of the CSE.
Nograles also explained that of their P2.06-billion proposed budget for 2024, P1.431-billion would go to personnel services, P89.34-million to capital outlay and P43.500-million to maintenance and other operating expenses.
