{"id":227285,"date":"2026-03-19T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-src-to-host-first-national-productivity-conference-in-may-to-tackle-low-public-sector-productivity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:05:48","slug":"kenya-src-to-host-first-national-productivity-conference-in-may-to-tackle-low-public-sector-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-src-to-host-first-national-productivity-conference-in-may-to-tackle-low-public-sector-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: SRC to Host First National Productivity Conference in May to Tackle Low Public Sector Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) will hold its first National Productivity Conference in May, bringing together government officials, academics, and members of the public to address low productivity in the public sector and its impact on fiscal sustainability.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking during a forum with journalists in Naivasha, SRC Chairperson Sammy Chepkwony said productivity remains the central challenge facing Kenya&#8217;s public service, including the rising wage bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;The issue facing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180430.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) will hold its first National Productivity Conference in May, bringing together government officials, academics, and members of the public to address low productivity in the public sector and its impact on fiscal sustainability. Speaking during a forum with journalists in Naivasha, SRC Chairperson Sammy Chepkwony said productivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5739,6937,4688,430,6687,257,8110,5751,5991,254,10077,11164],"class_list":["post-227285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conference","tag-host","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-productivity","tag-public","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-src","tag-tackle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}