SERVICE-ETHICS-PERFORMANCE
REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN
Paix-Travail-Patrie
MINISTERE DE LA FONCTION PUBLIQUI ET DE LA REFORME ADMINISTRATIVE
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REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON
Peace-Work-Fatherland
MINISTRY OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
$26^{\text{th}}$ EDITION OF THE AFRICA PUBLIC SERVICE DAY
LETTER BY THE MINISTER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM TO STATE WORKERS AND PUBLIC SERVICE USERS
Subject: Cultivating Ethics and Developing Leadership
Yaoundé, 23 June 2021
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Dear Users and Partners of the Cameroon Public Service,
It is a singular pleasure for me to once again address you on the occasion of the commemoration of the twenty sixth edition of the Africa Public Service Day (APSD). Permit me to recall that the Africa Public Service Day was instituted by the first Pan-African Conference of Ministers in charge of the Public Service that held on 20 and 21 June 1994 in Tangier (Morocco) and adopted by the United Nations Organization through Resolution No. 57/277 of 20 December 2002. This year's APSD is celebrated under the theme: "Building the Africa we want by embracing a culture of ethics that underpins purpose-driven leadership in the context of a crisis".
Dear Users and Partners,
This Africa Public Service Day offers the opportunity to recognize and publicize the importance of the Public Service in the life of States. It also aims to encourage public employees to be more devoted to carrying out their mission, while showing proof of initiative and innovation.
This year's celebration comes at a time when our country, like other nations around the world, is affected by the COVID-19 health crisis. The pandemic is compelling all levels of Government to act under intense economic, budgetary and social pressure. The consequences of this global crisis have negatively impacted our socio-economic environment and our way of effectively serving Public Service users. However, thanks to proactive and daring measures which were taken under the visionary impetus of the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul Biya, and the collective efforts of Cameroon's active forces, including state workers at the front line, our country has been able to face the pandemic and mitigate its effects. Under these dramatic circumstances, Cameroon's Public Service is obliged to reinvent itself in order to preserve the health of the national community. Several innovations have thus been introduced into our public system in order to facilitate access to basic services provided to users.
It is with this in mind that we have further optimized our remote services (website, online registration, remote document delivery and video conferencing).
Since the disease has not been eradicated, I urge you once again to respect the measures taken by the Government to prevent its transmission, especially those relating to vaccination, which is voluntary, but strongly recommended to enable us to achieve the objective of herd immunity of our population and hence the total eradication of this pandemic in Cameroon.
In addition, another challenge is that of building the Africa we want with an ethical Public Service through objective-based leadership in times of crisis.