Hargeisa, Somaliland – At this week’s cabinet meeting chaired by President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Irro, Somaliland’s government took a decisive step toward modernizing public administration and tightening accountability across state institutions.
Abdiaziz Hirsi Warsame, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, announced the full rollout of the Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) — a landmark digital platform designed to verify, centralize, and harmonize personnel data across all government agencies. The system marks the first time Somaliland’s public service will operate on a unified database of employees, a move officials say will curb payroll discrepancies and strengthen transparency in hiring and promotions.
The HRMIS initiative, long in development, aims to address a persistent challenge in the public sector — fragmented records and inconsistent staff management practices. With its deployment, ministries and public agencies will now operate under a single digital framework for tracking employment history, salary structures, and performance evaluations.
In a related measure, President Irro issued a new directive mandating that all future recruitment of civil servants be handled exclusively by the Civil Service Commission. The order reaffirms the Commission’s authority as outlined in the Civil Service Act and its accompanying regulations, ensuring that all hiring adheres to merit-based standards and institutional procedures.
Officials view the reform as a turning point in the country’s efforts to professionalize its civil service and enhance public trust in governance. By combining digital oversight with centralized recruitment, the government hopes to lay the groundwork for a more efficient, accountable, and equitable public sector — one that serves citizens based on competence rather than connections.
The new system is expected to come fully online across ministries in the coming months, signaling a major leap toward administrative modernization and fiscal discipline in Somaliland’s public institutions.