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AMAN produced the following:
First: Developing Codes of
Conduct:
Code
of conduct for the Public Sector employees:
The code of conduct and ethical standards for public sector
employees comprises a set of ethical, behavioral and
professional standards within the governmental departments’
framework. It defines a set of ethical behaviors for public
employees to follow while at work with their colleagues or
in their interactions with their beneficiaries. This code is
tied to the Law on Civil Service and it ensures a more
effective enforcement of the rules and regulations in this
regard.
Code
of Conduct for Local Councils’ Members and Mayors:
The Code of Conduct for Local Councils’ Members, Mayors and
employees constitutes a set of guiding principles and
standards that aim at ensuring integrity, transparency and
accountability for local authorities in Palestine.
Furthermore, the items and articles of this code aim at
helping the local councils and employees to perform their
daily duties and responsibilities in a refined fashion that
will meet the expectations of the public, which aims at
improving the values of integrity, principles of
transparency and systems of accountability for the local
authorities in Palestine. It also aims at overcoming
obstacles hence protecting local authorities against
criticism, an action that will build trust between these
councils and the public as the public will see that their
performance is in accordance with the law.
Code of
conduct for Private Sector employees:
The Private Sector Code of conduct
is
a commitment by the main Palestinian private sector to all
valid legal requirements at the highest ethical levels that
are included in the Code. It also defines expectations
(outcomes) of the private sector’s commercial activities, as
a sector and as individuals, regardless of location or
background. It includes general instructions in the main
fields, and it provides more detailed reference for
standards, orders and processes that suggest additional
instructions.
* The
codes were signed by representatives of the three sectors
during a special ceremony organized by AMAN on December 20,
2006.
Second: Developing select
Administrative and Financial Systems by integrating the
Concepts and Principles of Transparency and
Accountability
For the purpose of promoting and facilitating the process of
developing select administrative and financial systems
within certain public institutions to include principles of
accountability, AMAN conducted two analytical studies on the
currently applied administrative and financial structures at
select local rule institutions
municipalities and village councils),
and on the delivery of medical services by the Ministry of
Health. This was done with the aim of identifying the gaps
and shortcomings of these systems. The two studies are:
1- Level
of deviation and harmony between the applied administrative
and financial systems in some municipalities and village
councils compared to the principles and standards of the
values of integrity, principles of transparency and systems
of accountability that should be included in those systems:
The study aimed at diagnosing and defining status of applied
administrative and financial systems within
municipalities and village
councils in the West Bank and Gaza, and the extent to which
the principles and standards of integrity and accountability
are included in those systems.
The sample consisted of seven institutions from the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip. The analytical study was conducted
in cooperation with representatives from the Ministry of
Local Government, Association of Palestinian Local
Authorities (APLA) the Palestinian Legislative Council
(PLC), and relevant civil society organizations (CSOs).
Based on the results, a number of recommendations and
suggestions for improving the current local authorities’
administrative and financial systems were developed.
2- Level of deviation of the monitoring system from
integrity standards within the delivery sector in basic
health services:
The study aimed at diagnosing the level of professionalism
in providing basic health services at the Palestinian
Ministry of Health; the study provided recommendations for
upgrading the mechanisms of their service delivery.
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