LASG Institutionalized Competency Framework Across MDAs

By Mohammed Adekola

Lagos State Government officially institutionalized its Competency Framework across all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), marking a major milestone in its civil service reform efforts.

The framework has now become the standard human resource management tool for talent development, workforce planning, and service delivery improvement across the public service.

The development was disclosed by the Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Afolabi Ayantayo, during a strategic session with representatives of Kinder Consulting Limited. He said “framework now guides all personnel-related decisions within the state’s civil service”.

Ayantayo revealed that entrenching the competency framework as a standard across the State’s public service. From recruitment to promotions, from deployment to training, this system ensures we are matching the right people to the right roles based on evidence, not assumptions,”.

He revealed that the framework had recently been deployed in selecting officers for the Public-Private Sector Exchange Programme, ensuring that only candidates with the requisite competencies were shortlisted for secondment to private sector organisations.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Olubusola Abidakun, described the framework’s institutionalization as a transformative development for workforce efficiency. It has introduced a clear, standardised structure for assessing officers’ suitability and identifying development needs. MDAs are now more intentional about capacity building, as the required competencies for optimal performance are clearly defined,”

Competency Framework is a core element of the Lagos State Government’s broader Civil Service Reform Agenda, aimed at building a professional, ethical, and high-performing workforce that can effectively deliver on the administration’s development goals, she noted.