The Angolan government is going to standardize public administration salaries, which currently differ between the legislative, judicial and executive branches, admitting that compared to other countries "even in the region" they are very low.

The announcement was made at the end of the meeting of the Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers, which this Tuesday approved the roadmap for the implementation of the New Remuneration Architecture for the Public Administration.

According to the Angolan Minister of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security (MAPTSS), Teresa Dias, the process begins with a pre-diagnosis, which will dictate exactly the roadmap for the new public administration pay structure.

"To make it clear, this roadmap will have three phases, a phase of completing the diagnosis, then we will have an implementation phase and a final phase of evaluating all the phases and communicating," said the minister, quoted by Lusa.

The Angolan leader pointed out that, currently, the salaries of the public administration in the three branches of government - legislative, judicial and executive - are disparate.

"We have seen that the tendency to try to respond to the impact of currency fluctuations and market fluctuations and to be able to give some comfort to our universe of civil servants is to improve the supplements and we have had supplements that are often higher than salaries. That's not right, the trend has to be the opposite," she said.

Teresa Dias said that Angola also has very low salaries compared to countries even in the southern region, citing Mozambique as an example.

"We believe that we should carry out a very thorough survey of these trends and fluctuations, because we can't have hundreds of individual rules that dictate these adjustments and actually distort what is the rule," he added.

The minister stressed that from the moment the roadmap comes into force, there will be no "changes to the current situation", i.e. salary increases, so as not to jeopardize the studies that have already been carried out.

"Unless - and there's always this loophole - for some reason, the economic team that monitors these fluctuations understands and submits it to the head of the executive branch, who in turn expressly authorizes that there should be adjustments to these conditions. But there won't be any deliberate adjustments," he said.

The roadmap foresees that in 2024, probably in the first half of the year, the first phase of the program will be completed and, as the phases progress, until the third, "all the processes that must be implemented will already be implemented".

With this instrument, the Angolan government wants to make civil service pay fairer and more transparent, guaranteeing greater administrative efficiency and improving the quality of public services provided to citizens, as well as valuing and motivating human capital in the public administration.

With the roadmap, the Angolan government aims to define clear criteria for salary increases based on the economic context, and to give civil servants competitive pay based on their performance, competence and experience.

Tuesday's meeting also examined the National Employment Agenda, which sets out the guidelines for coordinated action by the various players, both public and private, in the field of promoting employment, with a view to reducing the unemployment rate in the national economy.