{"id":305740,"date":"2017-12-15T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/public-administration-and-fraternity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:02","slug":"public-administration-and-fraternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/public-administration-and-fraternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Public administration and fraternity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CD_02\"<\/a>\u201cFor as much as Africa is rich, the others seem to benefit more from its riches. <\/strong>In granting contracts to multinationals for the extraction of minerals, for example, there is a play of interests, in which \u2019compensations\u2019 and \u2018compromises,\u2019 \u2018agreements\u2019 and \u2018thanks\u2019 have as a consequence the exploitation of the producing country, without a real improvement in raising the population\u2019s living conditions.\u201d Raphael Takougang<\/strong>, a Cameroon lawyer of Communion and Law<\/a>, harshly portrays a picture of the reality of life in Africa today: \u201cCorruption in Africa is not only the work of single citizens, but is above all a consolidated method with which the economic powers \u201ccreate\u201d and support tyrants as long as these protect their interests, with the silent complicity of the international community.\u201d And it is always the poor who pay for this<\/strong>. Takougang <\/strong>does not limit himself to mere denunciations, but rather, despite everything, shows his optimism \u2018because there is a new generation of political leaders in Africa rising up, and has realised that mainly the citizens will have to control the actions of those governing them\u2026 to ensure the defense of the African people\u2019s fundamental rights to life, education, health, and spiritual and material wellbeing.\u201d Patience Lob\u00e9, an engineer<\/strong> \u2013 world head who together with the volunteers <\/a>are the driving force of New Humanity<\/a> \u2013 during her entire mandates as an officer of the Ministry of Public Works in Cameroon <\/a>had been seriously threatened: \u00abFor the African concept of solidarity anyone who is in need has to be satisfied. For this reason people continually came to my office, to ask for work, or to request a subsidy. During my permanence as head of the office, not one day passed in which I was not subject to temptations or threats. Corruption is a widespread, contaminative virus, difficult to eliminate. Like all viruses, a vaccine is needed in order to eradicate it. The vaccine may be represented by a real change in mentality: education in a culture other than consumerism which considers the owning of goods and possession as the only road to happiness.\u201d \"CD_01\"<\/a>In the same way,<\/strong> it isn\u2019t easy to launch good procedures and practices in the field of the battle against illegal management of public funds. \u00a0Fran\u00e7oise, French officer in the Ministry of Finance, recounts<\/strong>: “Due to the variety of situations, public services and issues which I have to deal with, it is not always easy to maintain one\u2019s discernment, define the law, sustain good management practices or simply coherence with the principles of honesty (also intellectual), rectitude, cooperation and solidarity with colleagues. But the work experience over the years has confirmed that every time I was faithful to these values, I discovered new horizons, new ways of acting, the situations got solved and unity between institutions and people was possible.\u201d Paolo, director at the Municipality of a big Italian city added: \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe mustn\u2019t forget that as public administration employees our primary task is to dedicate ourselves to the good of the community under all aspects, taking on the weight of the related responsibility. Every action must conform to the principles and values without which we couldn\u2019t live together, enhancing human wellbeing and progress of all the citizens.\u201d It is the battle against corruption, therefore, but not only that. The diffusion of good practices, respect for the rights of citizens and their needs, and also reception, and the capacity to create a link with other institutions: these are the great challenges for those working in the Public Administration. The participants of the congress are all convinced of this, and have made it their commitment to continue cultivating these principles daily. The seeds of a culture of lawfulness will silently bring about results in their countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPublic administration and commitment for fraternity: today\u2019s challenge,\u201d the convention promoted by Communion and Law and New Humanity at Castel Gandolfo (Rome, 24-26 November), gathered magistrates, lawyers, executives and officers from various parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}