UAE Federal Government to adopt enhanced HR procedures in line with international e-government best practices

"The decision on adopting enhanced HR procedures should come as a prelude to the full scale Federal Government HRMS implementation project due to start towards the end of this year", said Dr. Ali Bin Obood, the Deputy Director General of the Civil Service Bureau and Head of the HR Team. Dr. Bin Obood added that the prospective procedures would be in line with the recommendations of the comprehensive HR assessment conducted by eCompany, the UAE Federal Government partner for e-government implementation, and with the international e-government best practices for HR.

The subject assessment was conducted over the last two months and included a number of workshops and work sessions with officials from different Federal Government ministries. The assessment findings and recommendations will be publicised and shared with the Federal Government ministries and entities in a workshop towards the end of June 2005. "Adoption of the recommendations by the Federal Government ministries and entities is key to the success of overall initiative", noted Dr. Emir Mavani, the Federal e-Government Programme Director at MoFI. The specialised HR team also includes representatives from the Civil Service Bureau (CSB), the Ministry of Finance and Industry (MoFI), eCompany and a number of Federal Government ministries.

The HRMS project is one track of the overall e-transformation initiative that the UAE Federal Government has embarked on. While it is not expected to have the changes in HR procedures fully implemented before next year, the civil servants may start to feel the impact of these changes as soon as next October as a number of electronic services will start to be available as of then.