The political advisor for the Vanuatu Prime Minister says they are planning to do away with directors general of government departments to give Ministers more power.
Stanley Reginold says the presence of the permanent departmental heads stops Ministers implementing their full programmes.
He says cutting the posts will also save money.
But the anti corruption group, Transparency International, says the planned changes would be a catastrophe.
Spokesperson Marie Noelle Ferrieux Patterson says the directors general positions were aimed at giving continuity in the face of frequent changes of government.
She says they want the Government to explain what they are up to.
"for them to give exactly the reasons and what they are proposing to replace the system, because to go back to where we were before that would be a real catastrophe, because that was what everyone was complaining about because everthing needed to be redone every time a Minister changed"
