Developing the ‘Ethical Competence ’ of Public Officials- a Capacity-building Approach

for the London-based Nongovermental Organization TIRI Traditional notion of 3E (economy, efficiency and effectiveness) in public administration is trans-formed into 4E adding the ethical aspect of public servants activities. Author argues that the profes-sionalism in contemporary public service is inevitably associated with ethical competence. Subject-matter knowledge, attitude and commitment, advocacy, reasoning, problem-solving, self-awareness and consensus-building skills are the core elements of such competence. Training public servants in-office a video based training methodology may be effective tool reaching the desired results. Applica-tion of such training method is described in the paper analyzing the experience of the transitional so