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The Civil Service serves the State and the people of Ireland by carrying out the work of Government and delivering public services efficiently and effectively. There are approximately 50,000 civil servants working in a range of government departments and offices.
The central role of the Civil Service means it is uniquely placed to support the other sectors of the Public Service to achieve their objectives, progress reform and deliver quality outcomes. The Civil Service is committed to ensuring that it has the capacity and capability to support the social and economic development of the country.
Civil Service Renewal 2030 is an ambitious strategy that builds on the strengths of the Civil Service and the achievements under the previous Civil Service Renewal Plan and related reform programmes.
It is underpinned by a commitment to achieve a vision to be ‘An innovative, professional and agile Civil Service that improves the lives of the people of Ireland through excellence in service delivery and strategic policy development’.
It is informed by the findings of the Civil Service Employee Engagement Surveys; learnings from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic; the overall strategic context in which the Civil Service operates and the lessons learned from the organisational capability review programme.
The Strategy has been developed to ensure that the Civil Service can build on its strengths to respond to today’s environment, address future challenges and continue to deliver for the Government and the people. It has three core themes:
• Delivering evidence-informed policy and services
• Harnessing digital technology and embedding innovation and
• Building the Civil Service workforce, workplace and organisation of the future
Civil Service Renewal 2030 was collaboratively developed by a whole-of-government process. A shared responsibility of all civil servants to own the commitments within this Strategy will make our Civil Service Renewal 2030 vision a reality.
The Strategy will be implemented through a series of 3-year Action Plans. The Plans detail the precise goals and initiatives which will progress each of the strategic priorities. Our progress on the commitments within these action plans will be continuously measured, evaluated, and reported on. The first such action plan, Civil Service Renewal 2024 (CSR2024), has been published and will deliver on specific actions over the next three years.
The Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards were established in 2015 to recognise the achievements of civil servants and to showcase successful projects. It is an annual awards programme that celebrates the work of staff and is an opportunity to highlight innovations in policy and service delivery across the Civil Service where best practice and lessons can be shared for other projects.
Further information on the successful projects recognised each year in the Awards is available at this collection of Civil Service Excellence and Innovation Awards news items .
The Civil Service Employee Engagement Surveys were commissioned by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on behalf of the Civil Service Management Board and are developed and run by the Central Statistics Office. They ask civil servants for their views on working in the Civil Service, focusing on areas such as employee engagement, well-being, coping with change and commitment to the organisation.
The surveys provide the Civil Service Management Board and individual Civil Service organisations with data and evidence to better inform future policies and practices which will address challenges and build on the success already achieved in the area of Civil Service reform.
The Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey 2023 took place in September 2023. It was the most successful CSEES to date with 26,862 Civil Servants taking part.
The 2014 Civil Service Renewal Plan provided for the implementation of a Programme of Organisational Capability Reviews . This was to embed a culture of regular assessments of the capability of each Department to achieve its objectives.
The programme has been underway since 2016, with six reviews completed to date and one more under way. It is overseen by a Sponsoring Group of four Secretaries General who report periodically to the Civil Service Management Board.