THE CHALLENGES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN ETHIOPIA: INITIAL OBSERVATIONS
Abstract: Ethiopia, as part of its
general political and economic restructuring program, is currently reforming its
civil service. Using qualitative data, the study analyses the contents and
processes of the civil service reform program. It emerges from the study that
the reform measures have deficiencies in tackling the major problems confronting
the Ethiopian civil service. This has been due, inter alia, to faulty
diagnosis of the problems underlying the weaknesses of the civil service. It is
also found that the reform measures lack the necessary preconditions to be
adequately put into practice. The paper concludes by arguing that the reform
measures must be contextualised and executed incrementally by identifying
priority areas, while taking into consideration capacity to implement the
measures proposed.
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