Furthering the reform of the justice and penal systems should be pursued in parallel to the efforts to professionalize the police.

We must also do more to professionalize the Secretariat and to hold its staff and management more rigorously accountable for their performance.

As a second step, in the course of 2005 2006, EPAU will professionalize its team, in keeping with the aforementioned Norms and Standards.

Individuals such as Edward Yourdon, Larry Constantine, Gerald Weinberg, Tom DeMarco, and David Parnas began to publish articles and books with research results in an attempt to professionalize the software development processes.

Most of this assistance is being channelled into two streams first, provision of long term capacity development support to professionalize electoral management, and second, provision of policy advice on how to enhance the participation of underrepresented groups particularly women in electoral processes.

Adopted in 2003 at the Fifth Ibero American Conference of Ministers for Public Administration and State Reform, the Ibero American Charter for the Public Service complements the Convention by serving as a reference for countries to modernize and professionalize their public administrations.