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ARMENIA |
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ARMENIA |
RELATION WITH THE PROFESSION
A public service law has not been adopted or even defined in Armenia. As a result, there is no differentiation between graduates of different academic institutes when hiring. The absence of legal norms has a number of negative consequences: irregular, baseless and rapid personnel changes without appropriate training and appointments to high posts on the basis of personal relationships. As a result, a professional and stable civil service corps has not formed.
Some ministries have recently become interested in ASPA graduates. On 3 September 1999, the Public Sector Reform Commission was created by decree of the prime minister, calling for structural reforms to speed up the process of adopting a civil service law and many other regulations including PA education. These steps will reduce the problems outlined previously.
ASPA trains generalists. The school has graduated three classes to date, consisting of ninety-one civil servants. Most graduates are employed (eighty-one percent), and the fields in which they work are outlined in Table 1.
Table 1: Employment Fields of ASPA Graduates
Field
% of Graduates
Central Administration
59%
Territorial Administration
4%
National Assembly
3%
Training Organisations
5%
State Enterprises
4%
Private Organisations
20%
Social Organisations
3%
Constitutional Court
2%
Sixty-three percent of graduates work in public administration, predominantly in the central administration, whereas none work in the local self-government systems. As public service hiring practices are not regulated, graduates of ASPA are recruited to different levels as specialists and mid-level managers. Most of them begin in low-level positions, but some have succeeded in being promoted to higher levels.
The government purchases research services from academic institutions on a very limited basis at present, both due to a lack of financial resources and the newness of the field in Armenia.
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