WHEREAS, the Ethiopian Civil Service University has to efficiently carry out its mandate of designing educational and training programs, undertaking research, providing consultancy, and community services;

WHEREAS, the University must achieve its mission to meet the increasing demand of the Public Sector for competent, knowledgeable, and skilled human power, which gives the University special responsibility in the effort to enhance Ethiopia’s overall capacity in the Public Service;

WHEREAS, it has become necessary to lay down a statutory framework to enable the Ethiopian Civil Service University to serve as a center of excellence in public sector capacity building, consistent with the aspirations of the people of Ethiopia and the government to create an efficient and effective public service in the context of globalization;

WHEREAS, the present stage of development of the various Academic Units of the University requires guidance to enable them to become efficacious, and it has also become particularly necessary to guide them properly in order to ensure and promote their positive contributions—and hence of the University—through relevant and quality education, research, training, and consultancy;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to tailor the support services in such a way that they stand subservient to the core activities of the University, leading toward the fulfillment of its vision, mission, and values;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to establish various organs in the University, and to set out the membership, roles, powers, and responsibilities of these organs; and to set out principles and rules necessary to guide the operations of the various organs and individuals in the University;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide bylaws that the system of governance of the University shall promote, consistent with the Constitution of the country, a life of a learning academic community governed by the principle of freedom of expression based on reason and rational discourse;

NOW, THEREFORE, this Legislation is issued by the Senate of the Ethiopian Civil Service University in accordance with Article 49 (3) of the Higher Education Proclamation No. 650/2009.