Whether public institutions’ role is emerging in administrating society’s affairs as one of the most flexible and closest to democratic administration, and whilst Palestinian National Authority’ establishment of many institutions executed in the obvious absence of legal references, and improper use of the concept of financial & administrative autonomy in these institutions as well as floundering and deviation from the goal accompanied this methodology, in a way that contributed in mismanagement and spread of corruption phenomenon in these institutions.. Based on the foregoing, AMAN reached the point that it should address this important issue in an attempt to shed light on the reality of the work of these institutions and problems surrounding them. Later on to be submitted to the concerned parties to take appropriate actions that tackle analyzed reality of these institutions. Inevitably, concerned parties have to improve the performance of these institutions in line with principles of transparency and integrity and promote the values of accountability systems in the Palestinian public sector.

The Report contained three main parts; the first part dealt with the legal reality of Palestinian public non- ministerial institutions. Analyzing the right legal concept of such institutions as expressed in the Palestinian Basic Law, leading to the identification of the legal problems of each type of these institutions in terms of legal benchmarking.

The second part addressed the practical constraints faced by the work of public institutions notably the absence of a clear legal framework and proper understanding of the concept of the financial and administrative autonomy and the monitoring absence over public institutions.

The report also detailed legal rules directed to the work of Ministries and non-ministerial  public institutions in Palestine in the area of administrative, financial and human resource management, as well as its relations with its supervisory and official state institutions as well as foreign relations with the targeted audience.

 The report finally went through a series of recommendations addressed to the official higher parties that are supposed to oversee those institutions and monitor their performance, and included a set of recommendations that emphasized the concept of administrative and financial autonomy and the concept of monitoring, and that this relative concept differs from one organization to another, according to the specialty of the institution's work and the need for its independency in practicing its functions. It is necessary in this area to look at the reality of each individual organization in terms of privacy that must be enjoyed without the abolition of monitoring process that any public institution should be subjected to, under any circumstances.

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