III. Recommendations 210. The APR Panel recommends: • Capacity building for the FSCA and the Regional Civil Service Bureaus, with the establishment of supervisory boards to which they shall be accountable. [Government and Legislature at federal and regional state levels] • The civil service reform programme’s human resources management sub-system – a major component that has not yet been implemented be rapidly completed. [Government, FCSA] • The Ombudsman Office be independent and given adequate resources and access to the media to effectively respond to civil servants’ administrative complaints. [Government and Legislature] • The Ministry of Capacity Building continue with its various training programmes with the Government of Ethiopia designing and implementing requisite mechanisms for a national training policy. [Government, Ministry of Capacity Building, FCSA] • The creation of a more professional civil service, with security of tenure and insulated from partisan party politics. To this end, pragmatic attempts should be made to reconcile the principle of representativeness with that of merit in recruitment and promotion within the public services. [Government, FCSA] and, • Enactment of the Public Service Values Ethics. [Government, Legislature, FCSA]. Objective 6: Fighting Corruption in the Political Sphere I. Summary of CSAR Domestic public perception of the magnitude of corruption 211. The CSAR points to differing views on the incidence and magnitude of corruption in Ethiopia. While some hold that it is endemic and structural/systemic; others contend that, although increasingly widespread, it is not systemic; yet others view it as nothing more than petty corruption being successfully tackled and reduced thanks to vigorous attempts at eradication by governments at all levels. However, data from the CSAR shows that public opinion believes that corruption - 102 -