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Kenya: Men Get More Promotions in Civil Service
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More male employees in the public service were promoted in the 2020/2021 financial year than their female counterparts, says a report from the Public Service Commission (PSC) tabled in the Senate yesterday.
Of the 7,415 officers who rose in rank, 4,431 (60 percent) were men while only 2,984 (40 percent) were women, while 49 people (0.75 percent) were people with disabilities.
Appearing before the Senate’s Cohesion and Equal Opportunities Committee, Public Service Principal Secretary Mary Kimonye said the promotions were meant to address succession gaps in State agencies.
“The promotions are intended to address staffing gaps in the grading structures, aging workforce, stagnation of staff, mismatch of skills and jobs, high staff turnover in some key cadres and shortage of relevant skills and competences,” Ms Kimonye said.
“In appointing persons to hold public offices, the commission ensures fair competition and merit as the basis of appointments and promotions.”
Under delegated authority
The report presented by Ms Kimonye indicates that in 2020/2021, a total of 5,324 new employees below the age of 35 were recruited in the public service.
Of those, 2,521 were men while 2,803 were women. Some 132 were people with disabilities while 1,309 were from marginalised and minority groups.
In the same period, 3,198 officers were recruited into State agencies “under delegated authority”. Out of that number, 1,594 were female while 1,604 were male.
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Recruitment under delegated authority is where staff already in employment in different agencies are promoted by senior officers in the organisation.
The document shows that in the new entry-level appointments, the number of people with disabilities rose from 1.5 percent to 1.8 percent. The number of new entrants who were women also rose from 42.7 percent to 52 percent while that of men dropped from 57.3 percent to 48 percent.
Proportionate representation
“From the foregoing, it is evident that the public service has made great strides in implementing the constitutional requirement for fair competition and merit, representation of Kenyans diverse communities and affording equal employment to men and women, members of all ethnic groups and persons with disabilities,” Ms Kimonye said.
In order to ensure progressive and proportionate representation of the various groups in the public service, she said, PSC will enhance advertisements of government jobs to vernacular stations.
But PSC failed to provide a comprehensive list of all chief executive officers serving in the 286 parastatals.
Ms Kimonye said the database is maintained by the State Corporation Advisory Committee and the list is still being compiled.
The PS was invited to explain the unfair distribution of top positions in parastatals. A report presented in Parliament last year indicated that only persons from two communities dominated those jobs.
Ms Kimonye is expected to appear before the committee again in two weeks’ time.
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