Auditors Evaluated Organisation of Consular Service Provision

“There is not enough coordination of training of civil servants, therefore funds allocated to that end are not always used in an economic and efficient way,“ says Auditor General Rasa Budbergytë summing up conclusions presented in public audit report Training of Civil Servants.

The NAOL detected that the Ministry of the Interior and Civil Service Department responsible for the training of civil servants do not have full and accurate information about organization of the training and funds used to that end. Most of the trainings are conducted  under  programmes,  which  are not assessed neither

approved. Training needs of civil servants are formed without having assessed the benefits of previous trainings in majority of institutions.

In 2008 training for civil servants was organized by less than half of 176 qualification development bodies approved by the Ministry of the Interior. NAOL’s analysis of activities of departmental training bodies revealed several common shortcomings. As a rule they procure training services under author’s contracts, although under the law these services should be attributed to service rendering contracts.

The NAOL pointed out that under the valid legislation only legal persons are entitled to train civil servants. However, a qualification development body is only a mediator between a lecturer and an institution, which aims to train its staff, therefore a possibility to directly procure training services from a natural person would allow to save the share of the State Budget funds, which now go to a mediator. Solution to this issue was already started to be form during the audit: a draft law amendment was registered in the Seimas, which would allow natural persons to train civil servants.

The NAOL is of the opinion that the Ministry of the Interior should reorganize training system for civil servants, clearly define requirements raised to qualification development bodies, as well as better use facilities of departmental training bodies.

The NAOL stressed the necessity to develop quality and efficiency assessment of civil servants‘ training. It was recommended to the Civil Service Department to establish control measures for activities and training process of qualification development bodies, which would ensure the proper supervision of training institutions.


Public audit report is available in Lithuanian:
Training of Civil Servants