Desafíos de la construcción de servicios civiles en Brasil y Uruguay

Abstract

The professionalization of civil services is a fundamental aspect to promote economic and social development and fighting against corruption. Latin American countries have made disparate efforts to modernize public employment, in many cases, obtaining meager achievements in terms of sustainability and effective implementation. Within this diverse panorama, Brazil and Uruguay are in a higher stage of development of their civil services with respect to a good part of the countries of Latin America. Its challenges are not so much the construction of the minimum bureaucratic bases, but of a more professional public service, oriented to results, capable of being a transforming agent of the development processes. This article focuses on two aspects that in our opinion have a central transforming capacity: the construction of a top manager layer and the formation of modern career systems.