Making public service more ethical requires a “careful and objective” diagnosis of the real causes of the corruption scourge and its causes, Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said Sunday in Algiers.
Chairing a study-day on “Ethics in Administration and Public Companies,” Djerad said that “the effectiveness of any reform approach to make public service more ethical requires a careful diagnosis of the corruption scourge, its ramifications and its real causes and the identification of malfunctions and deviant behavior, which have always been a major source of concern in our society.”
The organization of this study day comes in a context marked by the complex and multidimensional crisis our country is going through, like all other countries, which affects values, attitudes and behaviors, noted the Prime Minister.
He also emphasized the growing interest of citizens, economic operators and social partners in the necessary reform of public administration, as part of the process of reforms to break with the negative practices recorded in recent years.
Djerad referred to “scourges in the management of public affairs, namely corruption, nepotism, squandering of public funds, bureaucracy” which “negatively impacted the nature of governance in the country and undermined the confidence of the citizen in State institutions.”
The restoration of this lost confidence is “a sine qua non for the success of any development policy,” he said, stressing that such a move “requires the improvement of the relationship between the administration and the citizen through a quality public service, listening to his concerns and tailored solutions to his problems. The President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune had stressed “the need to strengthen transparency, fight against corruption and propose mechanisms to avoid conflicts of interest between the exercise of public responsibilities and business management, recalled the PM.
