PSC Commences Outreach to Executive Coordinators, Regional Governors Offices

The Public Service Commission (PSC) on Wednesday July 24, 2024 commenced a one-week country-wide outreach program to offices of Executive Coordinators and Regional Governors.

The Commissions first engagement commenced on Wednesday at the office of the Banjul City Executive Coordinator’s office where the PSC delegation led by its Chairman, Mr. Baboucarr Suwareh briefed the meeting about the purpose of their visit.

Speaking at the ceremony, the chairman, Public Service Commission (PSC) Mr. Baboucarr Suwarehinformed the Banjul City Executive Coordinator, Ebrima Jawo and team that the main objective of the outreach is to establish first-hand information on pertinent issues affecting public servants and the operations of institutions/sectors that would require Commission involvement to address the situation.

To achieve this task chairman Suwareh added, require an outreach program to establish issues or constraints affecting or confronting public service institutions and the support they would require from the Public Service Commission (PSC).

According to Chairman Suwareh, their meeting withthe Banjul City Executive Coordinator was to establish how sector heads are managing public institutions and he expressed his profound gratitude to the Executive Coordinator for setting up of his office within a short period of time.

“Setting up of your office on time was a great achievement. But what your office should also do is to set-up City Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) because this are the committee that will make your work easy,” PSC Suwareh advised Banjul City Executive Coordinator.

He informed that the institutions Executive Coordinator and team visited are the ones who should formed his Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), adding that the said committee should be formed in order to make his Executive Coordinator’s work easy.

For his part, Banjul City Executive Coordinator, Ebrima Jawo on behalf of his staff expressed his gratitude to PSC chairman and team for visiting his office and had opened discussing about his (Jawo’s) office work among others.

According to Coordinator Jawo, his office’s mandates is to serve as principal representative of the President and Central Government, responsible for coordinating all central government projects and programs in the City of Banjul and responsible for contacting other government institutions within the city in relations to issues of public interest.

Jawo highlighted some of the achievements his office registered since he took-over the leadership as Banjul City Executive Coordinator in November 2023, key among were the visiting of some government institutions, organize football tournament among City youths, Regional People Dialogue, interface with the various city communities about his office roles and responsibilities among others.

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