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Records Management Improvement Programme (RMIP)

Records Management Improvement Programme (RMIP)

Records Management Improvement Programme (RMIP) – The Records Management Improvement Programme is mandated to enhance Records Management initiatives in MDAs where funding is sourced. The Programme was set up in 2005 to create records and rehabilitate specifically personnel records which may have fiduciary implications but most were destroyed during the war. The programme was part of the creation of HRMO and for implementing sound records management across the Public Service.

The team has completed the following projects:

  • Teacher’s Records (2012/13)– As a significant first, created personnel files for teachers and linked the files To Payroll data at the Accountant General’s Department; conducted a Biometric Verification and precisely located schools through GPS technology; rehabilitating the Records office at the Ministry of Education, Science & Technology.
  • Ministry of Health & Sanitation (MoHS) 2010- Re-organised and strengthened records infrastructure for personnel and payroll records at MoHS, for sustaining payroll integrity as part of the Ministry’s Health Project and Attendance Improvement.
  • Civil Service personnel and Payroll Verification 2008 – this project captured accurate data on the Civil Service workforce, capacity levels and more importantly evidence for eventually right-sizing the Civil Service
  • HRMO – Restructured Records Management Systems at HRMO, digitising available Personnel Records into a Document Archive System.
  • Office of the President, State House – Revamped Records Management Systems at and trained records office staff.

Teachers’ Records Management Improvement Programme

Accessible and Secure Teachers’ Files
Building more complete employment histories
Key documents collected as hard copies during interviews
Well over 250,000 documents collected and filed on the relevant teacher’s file at Ministry HQ
All documents scanned into a searchable database

Final Report of the Civil Service Payroll Verification Project 2008

The Records Management Improvement Programme was set up in 2005 to implement the creation of accurate and reliable records for the Government of Sierra Leone. The verification project 2008 is one project within this programme. The RMIP is a programme running under the auspices of the Public Sector Reform Unit which is part of the Office of the President of the Government of Sierra Leone. The key stakeholders for the RMIP payroll verification project are the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO, formerly Establishment Secretary’s Office) and the Accountant General’s (AG) Department The project has been funded by the UK Department for International Development, DfID, as part of its support for good governance.

Pilot Civil Service Payroll Verification Project

The Records Management Improvement Programme was set up in 2005 to support the creation of accurate and reliable records for the Government of Sierra Leone. The focus of the present report is a project conducted for the Establishment Secretary’s Office and the Accountant General’s Department which was conducted as part of the Public Sector Reform Programme. The project has been funded by the UK Department for International Development, DFID, as part of its support for good governance

Human Resource Management - Payroll Verification Exercise

The Payroll Verification consolidation phase was designed to improve the management of the Civil Service payroll to ensure that the benefits created by the payroll verification (Nov 2008) are both maximized and maintained.