Devolution in Pakistan

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Devolution in Pakistan
 
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Government's intentions

• Principal objectives
• to inject new blood into a political system
  considered to be the domain of historically
  entrenched interests
• to provide positive measures enabling
  marginalized citizens women, workers, peasants
  to access formal politics and
• to introduce a measure of stability into a
  turbulent political scene by creating a stronger
  line of accountability between new politicians
  and local electorates.
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• Technical objectives
• Improved delivery of social services
• Improved access to justice in the form of
  improved performance by local administrations,
  courts and police, with greater awareness of
  basic human rights protected under devolution.

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How can devolution assist in service-delivery
improvements?
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Key incentives in the devolved structures
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Highlights location of the employer function for
district staff
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How might it look in the future?
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Proposed features of the Provincial Local
Government Service

• A voluntary pool that senior provincial staff can
  apply to join.
• Staff who had applied and been found suitable for
  district employment would remain in their
  provincial posts pending assignment.
• Pool staff accepted into the district with
  explicit performance agreements.
• Staff members who wished to resign from the
  district service could, with the permission of
  the provincial government, return to the
  province.
• The district could terminate the appointment to
  the district, with the staff member automatically
  returned to the province, with the right of
  appeal to the Provincial Public Service
  Commission in the event of unfair dismissal

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Proposed features of the Local Government Career
Service

• District Service established separately in each
  province.
• Legislation to ensure that all districts within a
  province retain the same pay and grade structure.
• To cover grades 116 only.
• Recruitment to the districts to be at
  departmental level within the district, with the
  Provincial Service Commissions to oversee the
  quality of the recruitment processes, but not to
  be involved directly in the recruitment.
• Transfer between districts would entail
  resignation from one and appointment by another.
• Transfer from districts to provincial or federal
  government employment would entail resignation
  from the district.