Case Study: Creating reform readiness in South Sudan: Separating State and Country payrolls

In South Sudan, the responsibility for service delivery is decentralized to local government. To strengthen the position of local government to do this, national government have issued circulars to empower coun-ty administrations to manage their own payrolls. EU-TAPP has been mandated to build capacity at the local level for effective payroll management. Due to the many issues encountered, the team decided to focus on reform readiness: first splitting the payrolls between county and state, ensuring the accuracy of the payroll and nominal roll before working on further reforms.The payroll separation has been ap-proached in different ways by the states, leading to variable results.