This question had been put to me by outgoing Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, during a long and cordial conversation I had with him, before the investiture of his government in Parliament.
Isidore KWANDJA NGEMBO, political scientist and public policy analyst
Isidore Kwandja Ngembo
We discussed at length on the priority areas of reform of the Congolese public administration, hoping to achieve concrete results and have a long-term impact of the action of his government.
I was very impressed and seduced by its simplicity, its austerity and above all its willingness to engage in a process of deep and necessary structural reforms to effectively combat the phenomenon of fictitious agents emitting from the State budget. In any case, I thought I had found in the Prime Minister an attentive ear for the effective implementation of an ambitious reform that would enable the government to control the real number of agents and civil servants in the public services of the State.
Public administration reform is still to be carried out and will have to go hand in hand with the adoption of new legal frameworks aimed at greater transparency, accountability and efficiency of the civil service, to enable the Democratic Republic of Congo to align itself with the path of development.
This being said, the success of the next government’s programme will depend to a large extent on the capacity of the Congolese public administration to implement the public policies defined by the government and to manage public funds responsibly in order to achieve the very specific objectives.
Isidore Kwandja Ngembo, political scientist and public policy analyst
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