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Public Administration

ReformPractice Note

Part 1Global Practice Meeting onPublic Administration Reform


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The Practice Note

Provides a strategic framework forUNDP Country Office staff and Regional

Programmes for PAR programming Provides UNDPs development partners

with clear sense of UNDPs strategicfocus

Provides a portal to more detailedprogrammatic guidance: toolkitsincluding primers, case studies; other

resources.


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UNDP support for PAR

Basic statistics

380 projects in 112 countries 7% Promoting a professional, merit

base, civil service.

17% Functional reviews 63% Training civil servants

13% ICT


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PAR and the MDGs

More resources in poor countries are freed tobe used in pursuit of MDG goals

By increasing transparency and eradicating

corruption, more scarce resources in poorcountries are directed towards achievingMDGs

A responsive public administration, especially

to women and marginalized people, is criticalto ensuring the sustainability of MDGachievements

Increasing the accountability of state

institutions is essential to closing the


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Process of developing the

PN Mapping of UNDP activities, lessons fromexperience and evaluations

Inputs by the Democratic Governance Group,

PAR Advisers based in NY, Oslo and theSURFs.

Comments from Network Discussion betweenOctober 8th and October 22nd, involving over

20 participants. Review by the Democratic Governance

Programme Team over 25 responses.

Peer review by senior practitioners in partner

agencies


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Main issues in PAR for

UNDP

Difficult to define a UNDP role compatible withits resources.

Other players have increased their role in this

field, e.g. World Bank, ADB, IADB, and DfID

Surveys in Africa, Asia, and the Arab States

have shown that focus on reform of central

government declined while decentralization

has become a core area for UNDP

UNDPs comparative strength is

evolving:


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UNDPs Niche

UNDPs twin pillars of a pro-poor andhuman rights-based approach to PARare a focus on open government and

decentralization UNDP practitioners, informed by this

Practice Note and accompanying toolkit

will be able to engage in a dialogue onall aspects of PAR, and be advocatesfor UNDPs pro-poor and human rights-based approaches.


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Substance and Scope of

PARThe PN is built around capacitydevelopment at the individual, institutionaland societal levels for poverty reduction infour areas:

Civil Service Reform

Improving the policy making system

Reforming the machinery of government

Reforming the public expenditure

management system


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Civil Service Reform

Mission Training

Establishment control

Management systems: career vs.position; civil service commission;performance management

Pay and compensation Gender equity and affirmative action

Politicization and patronage


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Improving the policy making

system

Growing area of interest Politically very sensitive

Weakness one of the key handicaps to

reform


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Reforming the machinery of

government

Functional Reviews

Information and Communication

technologies and e-governance

Democracy enhancing public institutions


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Reforming the Revenue and

Expenditure Management

System

More often the preserve of the IFIs

But important new approaches: pro-

poor budgeting; gender budgeting, etc.

Critical dimension of decentralization


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PN provides practical

guidance for DGpractitioners

Entry points and sequencing Winners and losers

Gaining support and fosteringleadership

Accounting for different administrativetraditions

Enshrining the Human RightsApproach

Measurin Pro ress

Technical guidance on the main areas of PAR(Poli cy making systems, CSR, etc.) as well as:


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Regional Trends

RBA driven by structural adjustment and strong donorpressure; decentralization focus; CSR; holisticapproaches

RBAP UNDP increasingly crowded out; shift towardsdecentralization; CSR, institutional capacity building,

public awareness and pro-poor reform RBAS few countries, focus on technical reforms, anti-

corruption, ICT

RBEC EU accession; transitional economy issues

RBLAC shift from focus on economic and financialmanagement (modernization) to more ambitiousapproaches: NPM, performance-based CSR, andintroducing voice


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Next Steps

Seminar on PAR in Bratislava to: Build an understanding of and consensus

behind the positions espoused in the PN

Elaborate Primers such as:

Lessons from advances in PAR inFrancophone countries

Gender mainstreaming in PAR

PAR in countries worst affected byHIV/AIDS

Roll out the PN

Enhance the guidance in the PN for a future

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