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The administrative part often takes over the technical one. Depending where you work you may be considered and respected differently according to your contractual status. Equity is a concept that has not been mainstreamed into the institutional mechanism as well as meritocracy and even sometimes good governance. We are still waiting for the implementation of the 360° evaluation mechanism, which is not usual practice in the UN for instance. Given the size of the institution it has a hard time keeping up with innovative and fast evolving best practices and even a harder time to link policies taking into account those innovations with field projects. It suffers from it size and somehow political character, not sure the creation of the EEAS will solve or worsen the problem. For implementation it relies too much on a system of "framework contract" which keeps competition at its lower level and is often linked with an equal level of quality in the end results. Many flaws to correct, but I am confident the institution is moving the right way, particularly with the "Agenda for Change" recently adopted. But the evil is in the details, let's see how the implementation goes...