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The former Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs, Nabil de Frij, called for the activation of the negotiations between the Presidency of the Government, the Ministry of Finance and the United Nations Development Program.
Commenting on the suspension of cooperation with the United Nations Development Program in the Lebanese public administrations, former Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs Nabil de Frij called for the activation of negotiations between the Presidency of the Government, the Ministry Finance Department and the United Nations Development Program to find acceptable solutions that take into account difficult financial conditions and exceptional circumstances. Country. He urged those responsible for this file to reread the steps taken in relation to it and to treat it in a way that guarantees the continuity of the reform work, saving existing projects and taking into account the rights of those who work on it, hoping that the party international show greater flexibility for this purpose.
De Frij warned of the danger of not solving the existing problem, which can carry more than a worrying message directed both outside and inside. He explained that ensuring continued cooperation with a neutral international organization that upholds high human values would enhance the government’s development plans and address existing challenges at all levels. He said that the international community’s call for adequate reforms cannot be answered by focusing on the reform process undertaken by the team of technical experts from the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Development, after having attracted donors and won. their confidence for more than two decades, despite difficult political circumstances. .
In the same context, de Frij warned of the danger of emptying the public administration of the scientific competencies and specialization that the recruitment of this international program guarantees. He drew attention to the negative impact of this step in the reform process necessary to restore confidence and the rise of Lebanon from its financial, economic and social crisis. He praised the experience he had with the team of the Ministry of State for Administrative Development during the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, highlighting that these experts were known for their transparent and fair performance during the management of the reform files. He expressed his fear, if they are dispensed with, of not moving forward with the desired reform strategies and plans built by those responsible for the programs and projects, during the accumulated and serious work of modernization and development of the State.
He pointed out the material and moral losses and the major damages that will derive from the stoppage of the projects carried out as a result of the stoppage of contracts with those responsible for their management, in preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, either in the field of development administrative, digital transformation, solid waste management and alliance with civil society.
He focused in particular on the loss of existing projects, especially the file for digitization and preservation of personal status files, the mechanization of the courts project, which was implemented in several of them within a plan to circulate to all courts, and the generalization of the concept of performance monitoring through the development of sectoral performance indicators and an extensive program with the support of the European Union to develop Social Security and modernization of its capacities, and the distance training platform, benefiting more than 1,300 public sector employees and other programs and projects.
Source: Kataeb.org
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