A team from the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) and the Public Services Commission (PSC), on Thursday, January 22, 2026, engaged various directors and heads of departments of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) on hands-on guidance and operational support, particularly to ensure the smooth onboarding and alignment of the Linking Pay to Performance and Productivity (LPPP/LP3) pilot programme.
The PSC and FWSC are working together to implement a digitized Performance Management System (PMS) for public servants, shifting from old appraisals to continuous, goal-focused systems for better efficiency, linking pay to performance, and improving productivity through planning, monitoring, reviewing, and rewarding, using a mixed top-down/bottom-up approach.
Prior to the engagement with management members, the team met with the Director-General (DG), Professor George Agyei, and other top management members, to update him on work done so far and discuss ways they could help to improve the system.
Mr. Cephas Amada, Director of Performance Management at the FWSC, noted that his institution and GSA has had a very good relationship over the years, and encouraged the DG to support the PMS to help improve the productivity of staff.
Prof. Agyei, for his part, was grateful for the visit and assured the PSC and FWSC team of his staff support and resolve to implement the system effectively.
During the training session with the GSA management members, the Deputy Director-General in charge of Operations (DDG-OPS), Dr. Awal Mohammed, informed the FWSC and PSC delegation that his staff were ready to take on the challenge and have their support in implementing the system.
Mr. Amada, while encouraging the management members to take the training seriously, stated that GSA was one of the 21 agencies selected for the implementation of the pilot programme because the government had a high regard for the Authority and sees the institution as very viable and self-sufficient and is backing us to succeed once the system was implemented fully.
Last year, the President of Ghana, John D. Mahama, unveiled a comprehensive pay-for-performance and productivity framework, coupled with the planned rollout of a digital clock-in system for public and civil servants.
The newly introduced pay-for-performance framework seeks to directly link public sector salaries and rewards to measurable output, effort, and accountability. The framework, developed by the Ministry of Finance, FWSC, and the PSC, is set to be piloted starting January 2026, with GSA amongst the selected agencies to implement the system