40 Servant receives monthly and which comprises the basic salary and, where relevant, the bonuses and allowances. 15.3. The main methods used to establish salaries in Burundi A. Level of recruitment - The recruitment of public servants is done through competition and/or testing under the authority of the National Recruitment Commission established by Ministerial Order of the Minister responsible for the Public Service. This Commission can, by a rational decision, authorize the recruitment of candidates on the basis of qualifications. - The Commission takes into consideration the experience acquired in relation to the work for which the public servant is appointed, awarding two steps for each year of full experience (see the levels in the appendix). In the case of a Teacher in the formal or informal sectors and for public servants qualified to enter the teaching field, the recruitment of a Teacher is increased by an equivalent of six years of service with the remark « VERY GOOD » in comparison with the salary for recruitment into the public service. B. Credit Rating and Promotion The public servant has a right to an annual credit rating and it should reflect, at the exclusion of all other considerations, the work, the productivity and respect for statutory obligations of the public servant during a single year of reference. The assessment of the public servant’s merits is done on the basis of the following criteria: Punctuality, assiduity, professional relations, the sense of responsibility and of organization, the aptitude for training, the sense of initiative, professional knowledge, output, and the capacity to take decisions. The credit rating enables the public servant to move up in terms of rank, grade and category. 15.4. Constraints These Burundian instruments and laws do not actually translate the reality. On the one hand Burundi has just come out of a war which lasted more than a decade and the country is hard put to it to stabilize the prices of food stuffs and other imported products. To this should be added the depreciation of the Burundian currency on the national and international markets. This has given rise