The Addis Ababa City Administration Civil Service Commission was established in pursuant to the proclamation
No. 41/1993 that defines the powers and duties organs of the Transitional Government as public Service Administration Bureau.
Until the reorganization in accordance with the principle of decentralized power sharing in January 2003 it was achieved its duties
and responsibilities as public Service Administration Bureau. Based on the proclamation No. 2/2003 which declares the Addis Ababa
Executive and Municipal Service Organs Establishment it was organized as Civil Service Commission. It is accountable to the
Addis Ababa city Administration Capacity Building Office.The Commission has the necessary manpower which
provides human resource management functions to the offices organized at the city level. It has also a functional
relationship with the civil service departments organized at the ten sub-cities. Besides the functional relationship,
the commission deals with those functions that are not delegated to the sub cities. Starting from 2001 E.C the city
administration has planned to implement BPR on all public bodies in the city administration. Inline with this direction,
the commission has already studied its own BPR and now on the way to implement the new business process i.e., the human resource management core processes
