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June 2014

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce

The Exchange Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates LAMIA MOUBAYED BISSAT

Legal Status: Public Autonomous Agency, reporting to the Minister of Finance Legal Status: Public Autonomous Agency, reporting to the Minister of Finance MISSION STATEMENT: BUILDING CAPACITIES IN PFM IN LEBANON AND THE MENA REGION

1- Contribute to the development of human resources and capacity in public financial management 2- Strengthen cooperation and networking, the transfer of knowledge and good practices 3- Promote a culture of excellence and innovation in public sector

The Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan

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The Institute is created as French bilateral cooperation project The Institute is granted the status of public autonomous agency The Institute is named “ The Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan” in memory of the late Basil Fuleihan

How are we building TOMORROW’S workforce?

Source: World Bank, Public Financial Management Reform in the Middle East and North Africa: An overview of regional experience (Report No.55061-MNA), June 2010

Are we, training institutions, aware of the real needs in PFM?

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You want to be here High: Income Growth Voice and Accountability

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Do we have visibility about manpower planning and needed competencies?

while civil service is weighed down by massive recruitment and low productivity The MENA region ranks at the bottom on the index of overall governance quality

Sources: Presentation on “ Employment creation, poverty reduction and social integration in the Arab world: The unfinished agenda ( June 2013) IMF and World Bank data, 2011 21% 6% 13% 19% 20% 21% GCC States Morocco Tunisia Syria Jordan Egypt

Are we training for competencies?

TECHNICAL MANAGERIAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONNAL RELATIONAL ADVICE CULTURAL IT The Civil Servant Competencies’ Framework

Are we investing enough time and resources in our training content? Are we questioning our methods? What values are we promoting?

Are we working together enough? Are we aligning our training offer to demand?

Ministries of Finance Civil Servie Boards Ministries of Planning and Cooperation Oversight/ Audit Institutions Other beneficiairies

SUPPLY DEMAND

Are we contributing to producing knowledge and helping organizations embrace the knowledge economy?

Are we part of the strategic policy making process or are we just training providers?

Being successful in a post-conflict environment The case of Lebanon

A permanent sovereign debt risk

Sources: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, April 2013

GDP growth highly affected by the political tensions and the Syrian crisis

Lebanon : A fragile situation

The case of public procurement CD

Source: OECD (2011) Survey on Reporting Back on progress made since the 2008 Procurement Recommendation

Are procurement officials recognized as a specific profession?

Creating tools

National Procurement Manual and 5 Standard Bidding Documents

Building the vision Understanding the existing workforce

Profile and needs assessment

• A relatively young workforce: Average age in the profession is 45 years
• Long length of service: 18 years in public service and 11 years in current position.
• Male to female ratio: 1.4
• Well educated: 86% have a graduate or post-graduate degree, mainly in Law (28%), Accounting

(18%), Administration (18%), Literature and others (14%) and Engineering (12%)

• A scattered function: 48% have functions that cover the entire procurement process
• Few managerial/leadership positions: 26% of practitioners hold their current position on an

interim basis

• Capacity gap: 65% of surveyed Ministries reported shortages in qualified procurement staff
• Significant turnover: 34% declared a significant turnover in their cadre
• 87% of training are on-the-job training (observation and coaching)
• Lack of standardization: Only around 25% use the draft procurement manuals
• Little exposure: 70% of procurement practitioners are not familiar with new trends/practices

Training for competencies

The first certification program for the public sector

Building local capacities

25 Lebanese expert trainers 1- A pool of 25 Lebanese expert trainers 3- An e-community of learning

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2- North-South exchange

Reaching for the policy dimension

National Training Coordinators Human Resources Management

Ecole Nationale D’Administration Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan

Centre de Recherche et de Développement Pédagogiques

Institut Arabe pour la Formation Parlementai re et les Etudes Législatives Civil Service Board Institute of Judicial Studies

Office of Minister of State for Administrative Reform

Centre d’Entraînement pour le Renforcement de la Sûreté Aéroportuaire Lebanese Army Training Institute Institute

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Security Forces Central Bank of Lebanon NGOs, Private sector, Universities, Intl. Organizations

Municipalities Ministries Public institutions

Oversight/ Audit Institutions

Other training institutes

Private sector Other beneficiairies

Creating dialogue, Building consensus

SUPPLY DEMAND

Investing in PEOPLE

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Thank you

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