New personnel system to streamline MoD, MoI records keeping

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

02.08.2011

Story by Guy Volb 

NATO Training Mission Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan – A linchpin in any organization is its human resources department ensuring members and their careers are well documented.

Having the personnel systems in place to handle the multitude of tasks required to track careers is the challenge. But the Afghan Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense are betting Afghan Citadel Software Company can do its part to ensure success.

ACSC is mapping out the human resources process at MoD and MoI so those developing the actual system will have a road map to execute from – those requirements the system will have to address.

An Afghan female owned business, ACSC has been in the process of mapping the HR process required to handle hundreds of thousands of Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police personnel records.

Better known as the Afghan Human Resources Information Management System, it will document details about an individual’s career to include: Awards and decorations, promotions, reassignments, and separations to name a few.

“ACSC’s work will help assist us in determining how to improve efficiencies and effectiveness as we implement,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Marion Salters, chief of the CJ-1 Strategic Initiatives Group.

“AHRIMS builds upon current capabilities inherent in the Personnel Information Management and Human Resources Information System,” said Salters. “The merged capabilities create an enduring, comprehensive human resources management system. It provides a user friendly basic level Afghan owned and managed personnel information management system.”

It’ll provide “better personnel awareness across both MoD and MOI,” said Salters. “AHRIMS will provide that awareness based on the personnel needs and requirements of the ministries.”

Their initial goal is to improve the processes by which MoD and MoI handles data regarding personnel actions. That it meets MoD and MoI emerging human resources management needs to support the Afghan National Security Force and will set future conditions for a nationalized system.

“We analyze the current system and business processes to identify its strengths and weaknesses,” said Roya Mahboob, chief executive officer of ACSC. Her team is made up of current university students and lecturers. “Then we provide recommended methods to achieve system integration.”

Salters emphasized that AHRIMS will provide commanders with the ability to properly account for, slot, track and locate trained personnel through the use of the automated Tashkil (Afghan manning document).

The implementation of a single system for all HR activities is as important to Afghan security forces as it is to U.S. service members.

“It means the ANSF will see the same type of information our personnel specialist see, such as promotion boards, school boards and other evaluating bodies,” said Salters.

• Date Taken: 02.08.2011
• Date Posted: 02.08.2011 06:36
• Story ID: 64991
• Location: KABUL, AF