CSA Boss wants Community Health Workers Integrated Into National Civil Service Systems Across Africa
June 2, 2025
Kigali, Rwanda: The Director General of the Liberia Civil Service Agency and Chairman of the Health and Public Service Network of Africa is calling for stronger efforts to integrate community health workers into national civil service systems across Africa.
Speaking in Kigali, Rwanda, at the opening of a two-day consultative meeting Dr. Joekai highlighted the need for recognizing and formalizing the role of frontline health workers is essential to building resilient and equitable healthcare systems.
“We are here to ensure that the unsung heroes of our health systems community health workers are no longer invisible in civil service planning and public policy execution,” he said.
Focused on integration and progress monitoring, the meeting is built on the momentum of a major regional conference held in Monrovia in March 2025. That event laid the foundation for HaPSNA’s coordinated approach to strengthening the health workforce across the continent.
The gathering according to Dr. Joekai, aims to produce a comprehensive policy framework to support the full integration of certified community health workers into national systems. He also highlighted the importance of finalizing a Delivery Maturity Index, a tool designed to measure how well countries are performing in delivering community health services.
CSA Boss, Josiah Joekai, has been leading efforts to unearthed ghost names on government payrolls across four spending entities.
Dr. Joekai since being appointed at the CSA has been able to discover up to 687 potential ghost names on Government payroll The discovery of ghost names has saved the Liberian Government approximately $2.6 million annually”
President Joseph Boakai has since lauded the CSA boss saying “That the process will not only remove ghost and double dippers from the National payroll but will also improve the salaries of Civil servants”
