In 2024, Mozambique will employ 4,880 civil servants, including 2,800 teachers and 1,294 health workers, as stipulated in the budget decree that Lusa accessed this Wednesday.
According to the government document establishing the rules for the implementation of the Economic and Social Plan and State Budget 2024 (PESOE), the education sector is allowed to hire 2,909 workers, including 2,803 for general education, 48 for teaching and technical, 24 for higher education and 34 for vocational education. preparation.
In addition to health (1,294 workers), agriculture will be able to hire 455 employees, and the justice system will be able to hire another 222, namely 14 for the Constitutional Council, 52 for the Supreme Court, 52 for the Administrative Court, 52 for the Supreme Court. General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic.
“The filling of vacancies (…) of justices of the peace, judicial officers, assistant judicial officers, civil servants of general security careers is preceded by necessary competitions, with preference given to the mobility of civil servants who have participated and been approved in the above competitions,” is established by the same resolution.
Although the recruitment of new employees into the civil service is limited to a total of 4,880 vacancies, this decree states that “recruitment is permitted in cases of vacancies arising as a result of retirement, layoff, indefinite leave, dismissal, expulsion or death”, provided: that for three vacancies “in the event of at least one admission.”
Among other things set out in the document, the “creation, revision or restructuring of professional careers and functions” “aimed at increasing the level of wages” is prohibited.
In January, Lusa said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wanted the Mozambican government to conduct a “life test” of all civil servants by June this year as part of a technical and financial assistance program for the country.
The information is contained in a recent report that concludes the IMF’s third assessment of the implementation of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) program with Mozambique, which has a 36-month lifespan and which, despite its approval allowing new disbursements, identifies three goals “that were not met » Government and which were planned for 2023.
Among these measures that have not yet made progress are parliamentary consideration of a public integrity law, scheduled for June 2023 and now due to be completed by March next year, as well as the public availability of information on the beneficiaries of companies that enter into contracts with the State, planned at the end of December and rescheduled for September this year.
The third measure remaining to be completed as part of this assessment was the completion by September of “a general audit and ‘proof of life’ of all public sector employees”, according to the document, justified by operational difficulties. agreed that it would be completed by June next year.
The most recent data previously published by Lusa shows that Mozambique’s operating expenses increased by 9.4% in the first nine months of 2023, to 237,414 million meticais (€3,392 million), driven by rising wages.
According to the economic and social balance of government budget execution from January to September by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, this figure corresponds to 78.9% of all government operating expenditures planned for this year, estimated at almost 316.919 million metics (€4.520 million).
The largest item is personnel costs, which increased by 16.1% compared to the same period in 2022 and amounted to almost 146.365 million metikai (2.091 million euros), representing 78.9% of the total amount budgeted for 12 months.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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