Moroccan civil service minister ends visit to Britain

Moroccan minister of civil service and administrative reform, M'Hamed El Khalifa, ended on Friday a three-day visit to London where he held talks with several officials on civil service modernization.

Talks held by El Khalifa in London covered administrative reforms, British laws regulating the civil service, executives training, assessment of staff, and application of new technologies to improve administrative performance.

The Moroccan official informed his interlocutors on the political situation at home, expounding the new concept of authority being developed and the progress scored in the promotion of human rights, the rule of the law and the democratization of public life.

Reforms initiated in the civil service department are mainly meant to institute a new code of ethics in the administration, rationalize human resources, justify administrative decisions, and improve civil servants performance, El Khalifa said.

Specialists from the University of Manchester in the UK have recently contributed to the elaboration of a guide on performance evaluation in the Moroccan civil service.

The guide on performance evaluation, first piloted in the Ministry of Housing, is now due to be introduced in all Ministries.