365. Under Phase I of the programme, the focus was on five components of reform to improve public sector management and service delivery, namely, decentralising structures; improving policy formulation and monitoring; enhancing professionalism in the public sector; improving financial management and accounting; and enhancing good governance and fighting corruption. 366. In Phase II, the programme seeks to improve service delivery to citizens and the private sector; to strengthen local government; to make public administration more professional; and to enhance good governance and fight corruption. Phase I of the reform was essentially about analysing, conceptualising and designing what needed to be done, while Phase II seeks to deepen and consolidate the gains of Phase I of the PSR programme. 367. The CRM confirmed that serious efforts are being made to transform the governance machinery through institutional reforms and human capacity development across the entire public sector. Among the reforms carried out to reform the public service are the following: • Updating the “Norms of the Functioning of Public Services”, through Decree No. 30/2001, dated 15 August 2001; • Updating the “General Statute of Public Servants”; • Implementing the High Authority on Public Service, since July 2006, by Presidential Decree No. 2/2006, dated 7 July 2006; 21 • Implementing, during 2002–04, the “Ministries’ Functional Analysis” in or der to prepare the ground for restructuring the ministries; and • Adopting “quick-win” programmes by each ministry and other agencies to muster public confidence behind the global reform agenda. 368. To drive the reforms, the government established the Interministerial Commission on Public Sector Reform (CIRESP) in 2000. Chaired by the Prime Minister, the commission reflects the government’s appreciation of the importance of high-level political support to the success of the PSRP and the Technical Unit for Public Sector Reform (UTRESP) to serve as the administrative secretariat of the reform programme. 369. The CRM confirmed that a good number of positive changes have been brought about in the structuring and functioning of the public service under Phase II of the PSRP, which was in its third year of implementation at the time of the Mission. The performance of the reforms per component is reported on below. 22 21 Published by BR. No. 27, I Série, dated 7 July 2006. 22 Technical Unit for Public Sector Reform (UTRESP). 2008. Balance of the report on the 2007 public sector reform implementation, March 2008. Maputo: Ministry of Public Service. 133