Reform Outlines
4.00 Governance:
4.01 Institutional Right Sizing and Restructuring of Line Ministries.
4.02 Review and Upgrading of Service Delivery apparatus and processes
4.03 Review and Restructuring of Parastatals and Agencies.
4.04 Creation of New Departments and Agencies
4.05 Appointment of DGs to handle Specialized Functions, Departments and Agencies.
4.06 Harmonization of Structures and Functions of MDAS.
4.0.7 Production of Gombe State 10 Year Development Plan.
4.0.8 Improvement of infrastructure and Social Services.
4.0.9 Improvement of Security Services, Justice System and Legislative Processes.
4.1.0 Migration to e-governance system to mitigate the threat of pandemics.
5.00 Civil Service:
5.01 Man Power Development and Capacity Building:
5.02 Staff Audit/Verification (Biometric).
5.03 Professionalization of the Service and Ministerial Staff Cadre Audit.
5.04 Determination of optimum staff requirement of each MDA.
5.05 Replacement Appointments of Permanent Secretaries, Directors and Deputy Directors.
5.06 General Staff Promotions and other motivational packages.
5.07 Fresh Appointments in newly established MDAS:
5.0.8 Outsourcing and Out Commissioning of other essential Services in MDAS
5.0.9 Organizing of Seminars and Workshops for all Cadre of Staff.
5.0.10 Organizing of Retreat for Honourable Commissioners, Chairmen and members of House Assembly Oversight Committees, Permanent Secretaries and Equivalent.
5.011 Organizing of Retreat for Judicial Officers and Members of the State House of Assembly.
5.012 Organizing of Retreat for Officers in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Arms of Government.
6.00 Financial Management:
6.01 Strengthening Financial management and Audit processes to ensure accountability and transparency in the State financial management system.
6.02 Compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards. IPSAS IPPIS SIFTAS TSA
6.03 Introduction and consolidation of Inclusive Budgeting.
6.04 Reformatting of the Budgeting Process Needs driven/sourcing approach (Democratic Budgeting).
6.05 Strengthening Public Financial Management and Auditing System. Payroll Cleansing. Verification of Grade Levels and Annual Salary incremental process. Hazard Allowance beneficiaries’ audit.
7.00 Staff Performance Evaluation:
7.01 Reformatting of Staff Annual Performance Evaluation Process.
7.02 Introduction of measurable and Quantifiable performance monitoring indicators.
7.03 Mainstreaming of Accountability process at all grade levels of the Public Service.
7.04 Strengthening performance and productivity process at work places.
7.05 Introduction of punctuality and reporting to work tracking technologies for subsequent application in payroll system to migrate to rate payment system in critical service delivery MDAs (Health, Judiciary, Education etc).
7.06 Application of Self Assessment Tools (SAT) in Performance Evaluation aternal Revenue Generation: Migration from manual to automated revenue collection process.
8.02 Massive sensitization drive of informal sector tax payers to solicit for their buy in the State Revenue Generation drive.
8.03 Motivation of all categories of tax payers to secure voluntary compliance in tax payments.
8.04 Issuance of Tax Identity Cards/Numbers and presentation of same as a condition for accessing critical government services, grants, welfare packages, loans etc.
8.05 Reorganization of the Management of the State Internal Revenue Service.
8.06 Introduction of One-Stop-Shop on Road taxes payment.
8.07 Review of tax clearance process and mainstreaming of same in accessing critical government services, facilities, business premises and assets registration/property documentations.
8.08 Mainstreaming of the informal sector into the State Tax Net. 8.09 Strengthening Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Withholding Tax etc, payments by Public Liability Companies, Limited Companies, and other Private Business establishments and individuals in the State.
8.10 Strengthening of Ministerial Tax Collection processes.
8.11 Review of Land and Development Control Tax rates and Payment Processes.
8.12 Strengthening Commodity Tax collection processes Commodity Commission. establishment of a State
8.13 Establishment of Gombe State revenue Optimization Company GROCOL.
9.00 Mainstreaming of the Private Sector and Non-Governmental Organizations in Public Service Delivery Processes.
9.01 Repositioning of the State Private Sector as an effective off-taker in employment generation.
9.02 Harvesting the Economic potentials of the State through private investment motivation.
9.03 Publication of State investment policy document with emphasis on commodity value chain development
9.04 Subsidizing the production of critical industrial raw materials in the State.
9.05 Strengthening the general Economic infrastructural capacity of the State.
9.06 Fashioning out a Trade Policy document for the State to encourage and strengthen the marketing of locally produced commodities within and outside the State.
9.07 Production of the State Tax Policy document to create friendly investment climate in the State (Ease of Doing Business).
9.08 Production of Education and Health policy documents for the State to facilitate the development of the sector through Private Initiative.
9.09 Creation of Agricultural policy document to attract private Investment in large scale Agricultural activities in the State.
9.010 Production of Science and Technology policy document for the State to encourage research and development in viable sectors of the State Economy.
9.011 Establishment of Civil Society and NGOs policy document to harness, regulate and mainstream their activities and potentials in the development of the State.
10.00 Minimizing the Size of Government Participation. Increased Private Sector
10.01 Further restructuring of the Public Service institutions in the State.
10.02 Evolving measures and mechanisms of evacuating public sector employees to private sector domains establishment of industrial parks and enterprise clusters.
10.03 Re-engineering of the educational curricular to place more emphasis on practical skills acquisition and professional talents development.
10.04 Establishment of Vocational Training Centers at all the ward levels of the State.
10.05 Development of Youth and Women empowerment programmes in all sectors of the State Economy in collaboration with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), Local and International Development partners, Philanthropists, etc for economic self-reliance.
10.06 Encouraging the development of infrastructural Development projects with high labor contents to generate huge public works across the State through private initiatives.
10.07 Leasing out of the State Hospitality Industry, Health Institutions, Tertiary Educational Institutions, Agricultural Inputs Procurements and Distribution, Portable Drinking Water Supply, Sanitation and Environmental Protection, Management of Sporting Stadia, Event Centres and Motor Parks etc to Private Sector Operatives.
10.08 Re engineering of the Gombe State Investment Company, Gombe State Media Corporation, Gombe State Transport Corporation, Gombe State Water Corporation etc for efficient service delivery to the Public, self financing and viable revenue yielding outfits to the State Government.