Report on the Situation of the Civil Service in the Caribbean

Human resources are critical to the production of goods and services in public organizations, in the exact same way that they are for private companies.  Access to public services, as well as their quantity and quality, depend on the ability and motivation of public employees. The basic goals of any government necessarily require an honest and competent bureaucracy that is strongly oriented to public service. How do rules and actual practices in the specific arena of Human Resource Management affect the chances for consolidating professional bureaucracies?  This book provides a systematic study on how public servants are recruited, hired, evaluated, compensated and retained in the public sector of four Caribbean countries -Barbados, Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.  It includes part of the results of a thorough regional project aimed at evaluating the level of development of Civil Service Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean that was carried out by the IADB’s Management and Transparency of Public Policy Network, Regional Policy Dialogue between 2002 and 2005. 

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