Presentation by Karen Hill on Supporting public administration reform in ENP countries at a conference co-organized by SIGMA with the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the EU at the Dead Sea, Jordan 10 May 2016.
SIGMA intro, establishing credibility:
- 25 years of practice in countries/with countries
major achievements in supporting structural reforms
Lessons learned : PAR is more than Civil service reform. PAR is more than only adopting new laws.
The story if the Principles :
We worked in these areas for 20 years but without a Conceptual Framework writing down what Public administration and its reform entails in practice.
We searched a lot and there are all kinds of instruments and measurement tools are out there but none of them offers a comprehensive benchmark of what area the area of Public administration that need to work well in order to make sure that a national public administration system can be considered as a good one.
Therefore, SIGMA developed this framework based on the internationally recognised values of good governance.
The framework for the Principles provides a picture of
what good administration is and should look like (not an ideal one even, we have defined here only the basic principles not the nice to have issues)
How you can measure where you are, your country is with regard to this picture
This framework is now comprehensive = describing the six core public management systems that make an efficient public administration
It provides a holistic view = it sheds light on the main different layers of action within the PA
It is cross-sectoral as the public management systems that it covers are relevant for all public policies.
This will be explained in much more detail during the next presentation.