The New Recruitment System for Senior Civil Servants in the Lebanese Administration

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The New Recruitment System for Senior Civil
Servantsin the Lebanese Administration

• Samer Hankir
• Public Administration/Policy Analyst
• OMSAR, Lebanon
• Seminar on Managing the Performance and
  Enhancing the Integrity of Civil Servants
• Rabat, 24-25 May 2007

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The Public Sector Employment Model

• Position-based Career-based
• The Lebanese Personnel System

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Appointment in Grade I(According to the
Personnel Regulations)

• Selection from within Grade II level
• Candidates are listed on the promotion
  eligibility roster
• The CSB gives remarks and recommendations
• The Cabinet has the final say
• Selection from outside the civil service is
• an exception

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Appointment in Grade I(The new recruitment
procedure)

• Advertising Vacancies
• Filling out applications
• Sifting applications
• Interviewing the top candidates
• Nominating the top three
• The Minister recommends
• The Cabinet takes the final decision.

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The Added Value of the New System

• Enhances objectivity and transparency
• Reduces political meddling
• Provides some flexibility to the political
  authority
• Injects new blood.

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Lessons Learnt from the Lebanese Case

• The practice preceded the law
• The prospective law will institutionalize the
  practice
• The Tilted balance for the career-based system to
  be rectified by features of the position-based
  system
• Term contracts open eyes on performance
• Change is the outcome of a slow sequence of
  bottom-up initiatives.