Guide - Online Training on Public Service Professional Ethics for Developing Countries

L'ethique Professionnelle Dans Le Service Public en Afrique
Description:	Professional Ethics for the Civil Service is today a very complex matter. It is no longer enough that civil servants fight against corruption, abuse of office, influence peddling, and bad administration, although that is now recognized as an irreducible minimum if democratic governance is to survive. While there is increasing agreement, including international agreement, about what we need to do to curb official corruption, comparable agreement on how to answer the central ethics question which confronts public officials on a daily basis, namely - What is my ethical duty, in terms of the public interest, in this matter? - has continued to elude us.
Goals:	We set out to base this training material on the insights of practising professionals and scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures. In so doing, we have sought to take account of lessons learned in recent decades about how to make the administration of the business of government more effective, equitable, innovative, responsive, transparent, and ethical, and less arbitrary, inefficient, secretive and self-perpetuating. It is our confident hope that this training material, with its emphasis on action rather than theory, will prove to be of practical value to all who use it, whether it is to develop better macro-systems of public governance, or to find competent and defensible answers to specific professional ethics dilemmas in the public service. We did not stop at the technical concerns of managerial effectiveness, political legitimacy, efficient service delivery, and accountability for the use of public resources (as important as these matters are), we also considered the fundamental concerns of ethical government and public administration.
Prerequisites:	Please note that the course is in FRENCH.
Requirements:	Flash
Sample Module:	Not available yet.
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