6,000 administrative illiterate employees in Algeria: report

The latest report of the common fund of local community revealed that the municipal budgets bankruptcy is mainly due to wage burdens which are still representing 75 percent of necessary expenses for these budgets.

• The report mentioned that the specific conduct of local municipalities imposes reasonable use of human elements. A lack of supervision representing 9 percent compared to the inflated number of execution agents representing 86 percent.
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• The instruction level of local elected is very important for the management of citizens’ affairs.  A total of 1,451 municipalities count 9,654 executives with high studies degrees while there is no executive in 700 municipalities. This is due to a lack in financial resources meaning that 9,654 executives are managing 35 million people’s lives. That means every excutive is conducting 6,218 citizens.
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• According to this study, supervision remains far from efficiency measures. Moreover, controlling agents represent only 14 percent of the total staff while the largest proportions of municipal officials are executive agents representing 86 percent.  That means that they have no professional qualifications, in addition to 75 percent of excutives who are managing municipalities.
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• The study also reveals that 2,602 administrative agents are illiterate. Most of them are holding important positions in municipalities in addition to 8,211 people who have primary level. The number of administrative agents who have average level are estimated at 1,601 agents and those who have secondary level are estimated at 1,503.  A total of 9,654 executives who have high educational level hold positions in engineering positions or others. The number of general administrations’ agents in local community is estimated at more than 45,000.
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• This study reveals that the agents with the lowest level hold the position of execution. That explains the factor of low performance, especially the one which requires a sort of skills.