The establishment of modern management strategies in the public sector requires employees to have high professional qualifications as well as wider professional competences. All this determines changes in human resources of the public sector by focusing on the identification of general and specific competences and permanent development thereof. The article reviews peculiarities of development of competences of Lithuanian civil servants. The structure of competences of civil servants is revealed theoretically; legal, financial and organisational conditions for the development of competences of Lithuanian civil servants, which encourage the development of competences in the sector of public administration, are analysed. The empirical part compares the statistical data of the recent years, which reveal peculiarities of development of competences of Lithuanian civil servants
