The public sector includes all institutions
where the employees receive salaries from the
public treasury. In the Palestinian case, all
employees of the three authority branches
(Judiciary, Executive, and Legislative) receive
their salaries from the public treasury, so they
are all considered part of the public sector.
The public sector constitutes the backbone of
the political and civil life and thus the level
of integrity and transparency practiced at this
sector reflects itself in the level of democracy
and good governance practiced in a country.
Analytical studies and reports conducted in
Palestine revealed that the public is not
well-informed about the laws and regulations
being discussed and enacted by different
ministries, particularly those providing basic
services such as the Ministry of Education,
Health…ect, which directly affect the quality of
the life of citizens; mainly, the poor who
depend on public services. This project aims at
making sure that the administrative systems at
public institutions are changed to reflect more
transparency where the public can benefit from
having ongoing access to relevant objective
information. Moreover, it seeks to arrive at a
culture among public sector employees that
highlights the importance of ethical behavior
and adherence to professional standards in
combating corruption at public sector
organizations.
This project comes as part of AMAN’s strategy
that aims at ensuring that various sectors are
encouraged to start advocating and campaigning
to guarantee that values of integrity, systems
of transparency and accountability are widely
accepted and adopted by the largest possible
number of public, and private sector figures.
Goal:
Promoting ethics and professional standards at
the public sector.
Objectives:
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Promoting ethics and professional standards
in services provided by public sector
organizations and developing a code of
conduct and ethical mandates for public
sector employees.
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Creating a culture among public sector
employees, realizing the importance of
ethical behavior and adherence to
professional standards in combating
corruption at public sector organizations.
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Adopting and implementing principles and
systems that help create an enabling
environment that encourages and enables
public officials to release objective
information to the public.
Project Outcomes:
1-Transparent
administrative systems in at least one public
organization (Ministry of Health for example)
are developed through:
a.
Conducting an analytical study of current
administrative systems determining the gaps
and needs.
b.
Conducting a series of workshops to discuss
and evaluate findings of the study and come
up with recommendations.
2-
A culture that favors “whistle blowing” and
protects “whistle blowers” in public sector
organizations is created and enhanced through:
a.
Holding meetings to discuss the issue and
promote awareness among employees of the
public sector.
b.
Holding workshops in the presence of
representatives of various civil society
organizations, legislators, religious
figures and international guests in order to
discuss the issue further.
c.
Initiating a media campaign (radio spots, TV
debates, ads, billboards, radio serials,
leaflets and booklets to raise the public’s
awareness.
3-
An appropriate complaint system model for
receiving and processing complaints from the
public is developed through:
a.Conducting
an analytical study on current status of
complaint system in one public organization
(Ministry of Health for example)
b. Conducting
a series of workshops to discuss and
evaluate findings of the study and come up
with recommendations.
c. Producing
a complaint system procedural manual.
4-Building
the capacity of public sector employees on
ethical and professional behavior in the
workplace through conducting a series of
training workshops.
5-Raising
the culture of integrity and transparency
through organizing public hearings on issues
pertaining to transparency and accountability in
the services provided to the general public.
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