A delegation from the administrative body of the Public Administration Employees Association held a meeting with the Chairman of the Administration and Justice Committee, Representative George Adwan, to discuss the reality of public administration and the obstacles that prevent it from restoring its pivotal role in building the state and enhancing citizens’ confidence in its institutions.

Association President Raed Hamadeh presented the most prominent problems facing public administration on both the material and moral levels, in addition to the development projects that require concerted national and political efforts to put them into practice.

The attendees stressed that public administration has reached a stage where partial treatments or circumstantial solutions are no longer sufficient or useful.

Adwan also presented an integrated reform vision based on restructuring public administrations, modernizing the public function, adopting a scientific and clear description of jobs, developing digital management, qualifying human resources, and enhancing productivity and effectiveness, in a way that keeps pace with the requirements of the times and provides more quality and efficient public services for citizens.

He stressed that “the desired administrative reform cannot be limited to circumstantial measures or temporary treatments, but must constitute an integrated national project aimed at building a modern and effective administration that forms the backbone of the state and is capable of performing its full role in development, public service, and protecting the national interest.”

The Association of Public Administration Employees also confirmed that the public sector employee is not the cause of the crisis that the country is suffering from, and that he was the first to bear the consequences of this crisis in terms of his safety, health, and savings over the years, in addition to the decline that befell the administration in the level of services it provides to citizens, which requires launching a comprehensive national project to restore respect to the public administration and the competencies and expertise it embraces.

The association also stressed that “any serious and sustainable reform must be based on specific criteria such as merit and transparency, enabling the administration to keep pace with economic, social and security challenges.”

At the conclusion of the meeting, the two sides stressed that public administration is not a burden on the state, and that its issue is not only an administrative sector issue, but rather an issue that affects one of the basic pillars of the state, and that reforming and modernizing it constitutes the first step on the path to building a state of institutions and law.