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Ammon News - Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said that the "Public Sector Modernisation" Commission had submitted recommendations and a roadmap for reforming the public sector to His Majesty King Abdullah II, adding that the government will not downsize its workforce.

Khasawneh told journalists on Sunday at the Prime Ministry, "We aspire, through the roadmap to reform the public sector, to reach an efficient and effective public sector that works as a single unit for the development of Jordan and the realisation of the welfare of citizens."

He noted that the public sector modernisation roadmap is a real "lever" for political and economic reform, adding that the development of the public sector is part of the framework of the modernisation system launched by the King that includes political reform.

He added that the government is networking with youth and empowering women, as well as working on the royal directive that resulted in the ten-year economic vision that seeks to create job opportunities for one million Jordanians over ten years and achieve 5 per cent growth.

Khasawneh noted that the Public Sector Modernisation Commission was formed under a government decision and included experts in the public and private sectors.

He added that the Commission had worked on three axes: public services, the institutional framework and the legislative axis. He said that it had leveraged the expertise of experts until it came to presenting a roadmap for the development of the public sector that is temporally and substantively compatible with the vision of modernising the political ecosystem and temporally with the economic reform vision.

He highlighted that the Commission's work responded to the decline in the performance of the public sector and its services and institutional culture and the necessary measures to devote the principles of reward and punishment and to enhance the role of the public sector in serving Jordanians.

He pointed out that the roadmap requires action programmes for ten years, which the Commission intended to implement in three phases, the first during 2022 - 2025, followed by an action programme over three years, followed by another three-year programme.

Khasawneh pointed out that within the framework of the first action programme, the Commission set 206 goals that include institutional reforms and the merging of institutions and ministries during the 2022 - 2024 period.

He said the public sector reform roadmap has seven components as top priorities: public services, procedures, organisational structure and governance, policy-making and decision-making, human resources, legislation and institutional culture.

He emphasised that the reforms would not impact the rights of employees and that no staff would lose their job, adding that retirement plans would continue as usual.

Khasawneh added that the Public Sector Modernisation Commission looked over 97 public sector institutions that fall under the umbrella of the civil service bureau, except the armed forces, security services and municipalities.

The Prime Minister said, "We in the government are proceeding with the completion of the executive plans to put the roadmap into effect, as well as the development of performance indicators developed in cooperation with state institutions, including the King Abdullah II Center for Excellence and the Civil Service Bureau, whose name will change and its role will strengthen and improve..."