The modernization of the Public Service remains a top priority for Cameroon by 2026. Under the leadership of President Paul Biya, the country continues to digitize procedures, clean up the payroll database, and verify staff numbers, with the goal of achieving a more efficient administration and a strengthened public service.
The Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform continues to modernize the Cameroonian administration, which has nearly 292,000 public servants. The reforms target cleaning up the payroll database, verifying staff numbers, and combating duplicates or ghost workers, through a comprehensive approach based on technological innovation and the simplification of procedures.
We are currently on a major, significant train of administrative reforms, notably with the implementation of a new application we have named Aigle, a computer application for the logical management of staff and payroll. This means we are thoroughly overhauling the way the state manages its human resources and payroll.
The Public Service reform is accompanied by a rationalization of wage expenditures, with an estimated wage bill of 1,590 billion CFA francs for 2025. Recruitment is targeted, with 2,860 new agents integrated into priority sectors such as education, research, the prison administration, and technical services, to align staffing with needs and strengthen the quality of public service.
That is why, on the very high instruction of the President of the Republic, we are working and are practically in the final phase of this new software package that allows us to combine the two, to fight corruption, to combat absenteeism, to digitize procedures, to simplify them so that public service users now have an easier task, because we are here for them.
The Ministry of Public Service is working on the digitization and optimization of services, including attendance monitoring and career management. Over 50 billion CFA francs are allocated to settling the arrears of 180,000 agents, contributing to a high-performing administration that meets governance standards.