CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE __________________________________________________________________________  Enhance the status and motivate (including financially) of its human resources through the implementation of a new salary structure aimed at improving working and living conditions.  Implement capacity building measures for management and administrative institutions at the local, regional and national levels.  Set up a rational and efficient information management system that is transparent and uses modern information and communication techniques.  Draw up and implement a regulatory mechanism to tackle the problems mentioned in this report (such as lateness and laziness), starting with a review of the legal framework on public service personnel (Parliament and government).  Pass a law on the depoliticisation of the public service. The objectives of this law would be the clarification, description and strict separation of technical and political functions so as to guarantee the continuity of the state and to ensure and enhance integrity, efficiency and republicanism in the public service.  Implement and promote the policy of consultation and political association to ensure greater participation by the various professionals in the diaspora in the task of national development, and to create attractive conditions to encourage such professionals to return to Benin.  Strengthen the mechanisms for the control and assessment of services and service provision through the establishment of appropriate channels of information under the control of representatives of government, the public sector and civil society. Objective 6: Tackle corruption in the political world i. Summary of the CSAR 246. According to the CSAR, corruption is rife in both the private and the public sectors. The following structures, measures and actions are recommended in the fight against corruption: an auditor-general’s department; internal audit departments at ministries; the OLC and, recently, the unit for the improvement of public morals; civil society pressure groups like unions and NGOs; institutions like the National Organisations Front for the Fight against Corruption (FONAC), Transparency International, the Association for the Fight Against Racism, Ethnocentrism and Regionalism (ALCRER), ELAN and others; the introduction of a National Anti-corruption Day (8 December); audits ordered by the new government which, unfortunately, fail to satisfy the public; and some ‘showy’ sanctions like demotions and property seizures. 103