This forum is offered in five sessions over two years and delegates are encouraged to complete the five sessions in order to benefit from the enriching experience drawn from several jurisdictions.
The program which targets Administration officers, will focus on the behaviors required of public servants including guidance that should be provided to public servants. Practical sessions that delve on relationships with administrative superiors, seniors, political leaders, colleagues, clients, wider public and lastly with their own interests.
Should public servants be obliged to blow the whistle? Are public servants responsible for the outcomes of policies adopted on the strength of their advice? Should a public servant be able to moonlight? Should public servants be obligated to limit their rights to free political expression? To what levels of risk should public servants expose members of the public? Should public servants be proactive in providing relevant information to stakeholders and citizens? What is the nature of their obligation to protect the privacy of citizens and employees? To whom and for what are public servants accountable?
This program as described, does not provide definitive answers to questions stated above. In fact, the engagements will try hard not to be overly prescriptive about what responsible behavior is – except to defend the most basic proposition that a responsible public servant does not knowingly contribute to state actions or inactions that violate the law, misuse state resources, or cause indefensible harm to those affected by them.
These formal and informal standards draw their legitimacy explicitly or implicitly from political and ethical theory. In the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, for example, the interplay of ideas about how coercive state power should be distributed among and used by politicians, administrators and the judiciary has led over time to the development of the Westminster model of responsible cabinet government.
This development, in turn, has spawned ideas about the proper role for public servants, operating within that model and the principles of political neutrality, anonymity and accountability. Ideas about how public servants should act also emerge more directly from ethical theory, with its focus on the application of concepts such as responsibility, consequences, duty and virtue to the hard policy and administrative choices faced by public servants.
Some of the topics that will be covered during the formal sessions include:-
- Taking Personal Responsibility – Legitimacy vs legality
- Making Defensible Decisions – The Citizen’s participation
- Crisis Management – Acting in the Public Interest
- The Politically Neutral Public Servant
- Conflict of Interest, Confidentiality, Transparency and Privacy Protection
- The Accountable Public Servant – Application of knowledge to public administration
- Managing Ethical Behavior- The Moral Government
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Suitable for all Administrators in public service including secretaries, and customer service officers as well as county speakers.
YOUR INVESTMENT
The program fee is $2850/= per person (Exclusive of TAX).
This fee covers facilitation fee, certificate of participation, writing materials, handouts, tea, snacks and lunch, visitations, and tours. This cost does NOT cover participants airfare, ground logistics and accommodation. Roundtable fee payments must be made by 10th March 2024, while visa fee must be paid prior to visa application. For more information on the program, kindly contact:- 0722741293 email info@ethicsandintegrity.org or jacky.nyandeje@gmail.com.
PAYMENT DETAILS
Paymentshould be made in favour of: Ethics and Integrity Institute, Absa Bank, Lavington Branch, and Ksh Account No.2024783815 or USD Account no: 2026736849.
REGISTRATION & VISA APPLICATION
Registrations must be submitted by 10th February 2024. Visa application should be submitted by 20th February 2024. The Embassy requires up to 8 weeks to process the Canadian Visa.
