| It provides an overview of measures and progress towards each element of our strategic outcome: competency, official languages, nonpartisanship, representativeness, fairness, access and transparency. |
| Thus UNESCO through its mandate and its history of being a chief forum and interlocutor of education ministries, who trust its objectivity and nonpartisanship, has a uniquely comprehensive and international perspective. |
| Legislative libraries, then, must seek to be reliable, trusted partners of legislators, maintaining their commitment to the principles of confidentiality and nonpartisanship and to providing accurate research and information. |
| Merit finds practical meaning in the application of all the values that underlie it-competency, nonpartisanship, and representativeness-as well as in the processes that lead to appointments. |
| In addition, participants explored how research libraries can best maintain objectivity and nonpartisanship. |
| Employees stand to benefit from a new staffing regime that promotes flexibility, access, fairness and transparency, while ensuring that the values of merit and nonpartisanship remain at the heart of the system. |
