The director-general of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dasuki Arabi, says embracing ongoing public service reforms and innovation will improve governance.

Mr Arabi said this on Monday at a workshop in Abuja.

He said the initiative would improve Nigerians’ economic growth, development, and well-being.

Mr Arabi said that the perception survey on critical reform initiatives of government was a reform action of the BPSR aimed at regulating policy evaluation.

According to him,  the survey was also designed to gauge the perspective of stakeholders on government interventions in the area of programmes and projects and communicate same across the public service.

“It is pertinent to state that the future of Nigeria’s Public service lies in our ability to embrace reform and innovation aimed at improving governance, economic growth and development, and the well-being of citizens.

“Towards that end, the bureau developed the National Strategy for Public Service Reform.

“The NSPSR was categorised into four pillars, enabling institutional and governance environment,  socio-economic environment, public finance management reform, and civil service administration reform,” he said.

He said the initiative was to reinvigorate and transform the public service into an efficient, productive, incorruptible and citizen-centred institution capable of delivering government policies and programmes.

Zakari Lawal, BPSR’s consultant, said the perception survey was a project to measure the effectiveness, relevance and the efficiency of the public service reforms the bureau has facilitated over the years.

According to him, the impact at the end of the exercise is to provide empirical evidence for the government about the effectiveness of the reforms, particularly with emphasis on there impacts on the citizens.

“Governance is generally about service delivery to the citizens, and the reforms undertaken by the government is to ensure that service delivery to the citizens has been enhanced,” he said. 

(NAN)