Civil Administration Reform: Taif Accord

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Civil Administration Reform: Taif Accord

Implementations

Civil Administration Reform – 1989

No information available as to whether top level jobs were equally distributed between Christians and Muslims.

Civil Administration Reform – 1990

No information available as to whether top level jobs were equally distributed between Christians and Muslims.

Civil Administration Reform – 1991

Discrimination based on religion or sectarian identity existed. The Government had agreed in principle to Muslim-Christian parity in top-level positions and to the elimination of the use of sectarian criteria for top-level positions. The Government held a seminar during the summer of 1991 to draw up an administrative reform plan; one provision aimed to abolish confessionalism for positions at the lower ranks.[fn]”Human Rights Report -1991-Lebanon,” U.S. State Department, February 1992.[/efn_note] Government had yet to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

Civil Administration Reform – 1992

It was reported that the administrative reform was the main priority and objective of the Hariri government.1 But, no record of administrative reform found for that year except that the government formulated a framework for the “National Administrative Rehabilitation Programme (NARP) of the Government (1992) to bring the Lebanese post-war public administration into the 21st century.”2 Government yet had to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

  1. “Born-again Lebanon gets its very own Ross Perot,” The Ottawa Citizen, October 29, 1992.
  2. “Cluster Projects Fact Sheet: Support to Administrative Reform and Development,” UNDP, 2001, accessed April 7, 2011, http://www.undp.org.lb.

Civil Administration Reform – 1993

Various efforts were made to modernize the administration. Nevertheless, government yet had to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

Civil Administration Reform – 1994

Lebanese government yet had to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

Civil Administration Reform – 1995

Lebanese government yet had to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

Civil Administration Reform – 1996

Lebanese government yet had to abolish the mention of sect and denomination on the identity card as required by the Taif accord.

Civil Administration Reform – 1997

On 17 March 1997, listing of religion in the government issued identity card was dropped. The religious or sectarian identity was not mentioned in the card but that information was said to be stored in a central data bank since Lebanon’s sectarian-based political and social system would require religious affiliations in many cases.1 Government in 1997 passed a law to create specialized units within the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR).2

Since public jobs were equally divided and the sectarian identity was abolished, reforms related to civil service can be coded as implemented.

  1. “Lebanon introduces new ID card to deter forgery,” Associated Press Worldstream, March 17, 1997.
  2. “Cluster Projects Fact Sheet:Support to Administrative Reform and Development.”

Civil Administration Reform – 1998

Taif provision on civil administration reform was implemented in 1997.