The Coalition of Integrity and Accountability – AMAN supervised the recruitment of five staff members to the Public Prosecution. AMAN and the Bar Association participated as external supervisors to oversee the different phases of the employment procedure.
The supervision journey AMAN and the Bar have embarked on started with the receipt of 650 job applications. All of them were furnished using a standard form. The applications were classified as per the criteria disclosed in the opening advertisement. AMAN has ensured that the calcification was made accurately and in integrity through examining a random sample of the clarified application. In fact, all the excluded applications did not meet the eligibility criteria.
The second phase was given over to the written exam, which was held in Birzeit University. Five hundred candidates of the approved applications sit for the exam. The latter was detailed and inclusive of the legal penal, civil and administrative knowledge, which shall each public prosecution member has. AMAN was witnessed the strict and thoughtful procedures devised to supervise the examination by a large number of the Public Prosecution members and the Prosecutor General.
AMAN’s supervisory mission had its share of the correction phase, which was made by a panel of ten public prosecutor members. To that end, AMAN examined a random sample of the corrected examinations to ensure that the corrections were made in the light of the standard answer sheet.
The journey came berth at the interviewing phase. Twelve of the candidates, who have passed the written examination, were interviewed. AMAN was represented by its legal advisor, Bilal al-Barghouti at all the interviews, which were conducted by the Prosecutor General and his assistants. In a nutshell, this phase was dedicated to select the top five calibers to be recruited to the Public Prosecution.
AMAN looked up to the Prosecutor General’s invitation to take part in the supervision over the employment process from A to Z as an example of the promotion of the partnership with the CSOs in the public control and accountability practice.
On the other hand, AMAN voiced a few reservations in pursuit further promoted integrity and transparency of the process. First and foremost, the candidate names shall not appear on the exam papers. The testing results also should be published; although the Prosecutor General justified that testing results are not published in order not to defame the unsuccessful candidates,
