Santa Ozolina Policy Officer

Addressing the Key Public Administration Challenges: Empowering civil servants in Romania for increased productivity and service delivery efficiency

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Empowering civil servants in Romania for increased productivity and service delivery efficiency

• ECDL e-skills development programmes for public servants were:– selected as part of Romanian Government public administration

reform strategy 2007-2013;– delivered at a large scale;– successfully contributing to the objectives of the public

administration reform in Romania.

• Case can be easily adapted and used elsewhere.

• ICT skills development project by the National Association of Civil Servants in Romania using the ECDL certification programme.

• ECDL certification was formally adopted as a key performance indicator in the public administration reform strategy 2009-2013 in Romania.

• Analysis of civil servant ICT skills discovered significant deficiencies.

Contributing to Public Administration Reform in Romania

Deficiencies

Successful Implementation

• 12.000 civil servants enrolled in the programme with a completion rate of 98%.

• Proven adequacy of the delivered e-skills development programme and the effectiveness of the implementation methods.

• Evaluation with over 400 participants with very positive results.

Proven Results

Conclusions

• Pre-requisite for a successful roll-out of the administrative reform in Romania.

• A first but essential step in continuing the implementation of the administrative reform in Romania.

• ECDL certification provided a clear measure for return on investment in the training.

• ECDL certification served as an indicator of training quality as well as provided motivation for the employees to complete the training.