Published: July 27, 2026
MONROVIA – All 109 government spending entities will have to justify their staffing to the Civil Service Agency before the Fiscal Year 2027 budget is finalized, an attempt to close the route by which ministries have secured extra pay outside the approved budget.
The agency will hold its annual manpower hearings alongside the budget process rather than separately, Director-General Josiah F. Joekai Jr. said Thursday at the launch of the draft FY2027 budget at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex in Congo Town. Each entity must present its personnel needs, staffing gaps and workforce proposals, and align them with a manpower planning report.
“Compensation constitutes a significant chunk of the national budget. Once we do that, we might reduce the many requests for extra budgetary support,” Joekai said.
Compensation is one of the largest recurrent items in the national budget, and mid-year requests for additional personnel funding have been a persistent source of overruns.
The launch was organized by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and attended by human resource directors, procurement directors and comptrollers. Joekai thanked Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan for funding the hearings.
He also said construction of the agency’s first regional headquarters, in Gbarnga, Bong County, should finish within 120 days, and that ground will be broken within two weeks on a second regional office in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, to serve Grand Gedeh, Sinoe, River Gee, Maryland and Grand Kru.
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