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The ministry says the directive, issued as part of ongoing public financial management reforms, aims to streamline payroll processes and address persistent challenges in salary disbursements.
In a circular dated 19/05/2025, the ministry emphasised that the transition to a bank-based salary payment system is a critical step toward implementing a Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) with a biometrically integrated payroll system.
This reform is designed to enhance efficiency, ensure timely salary payments, and mitigate liquidity shortages that have plagued cash-based salary disbursements in recent months.
The circular obtained by Sudans Post instructed all accounting officers across ministries, departments, commissions, and authorities to ensure that civil servants under their purview open personal salary accounts within one week.
The officers were further required to submit the account details to the Ministry of Public Service and Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Finance and Planning by Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
“Only civil servants whose bank account details are submitted by this deadline”, the ministry warned, “will be eligible to receive their salaries through the new system.”
The objectives of the reform include accelerating salary processing and disbursement, ensuring timely payments, and addressing liquidity issues that have delayed cash-based salary distributions.
The introduction of the HRMIS and biometric payroll system is expected to improve payroll management by enhancing transparency and accountability in the public sector.
The MoFP’s directive marks a pivotal move toward modernising South Sudan’s public financial management, with the potential to significantly improve the welfare of civil servants through more reliable and efficient salary payments, which have not been in place since independence.
Accounting officers have been urged to expedite the process to meet the tight deadline, signalling the government’s commitment to the swift implementation of this reform.
South Sudan has been grappling with a cash crisis, which has impacted not just the banks but also mobile money transfer service providers.
