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By:Edwin B.R. Gbargaye
Professor: Jo B. Bitonio DM 212 Human Resource Management
& Development
• Many concepts in public sector innovation
came from a reform movement known as “New
Public Management” or “Reinventing
Government”
• Most students of governmental reform
credit for beginning this movement to Margaret
Thatcher who came to office in 1979 in Great
Britain
Introduction
• For others the challenge outmoded
bureaucracies and bring them into the
information age
• In some countries this movement has been
called reinventing government
• To other countries, it is referred to as building
state capacity or modernization of the State
• To some countries this is named New Public
Management
• For some countries government reforms
and innovations involves the reform of the
old bureaucracies in the context of a
newly democratic state.
• For other countries this entails an all out
fight against corruption
• the reform aim to increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of
public action, to reduce costs
and put an end to the supposed
power of bureaucracies
• Government reforms are not easy
• It disrupts established relationships and
behavior
• World’s nation engaged in serious efforts
to reform their government and inject a
culture of innovation into their
government bureaucracies
•
* American governmental reform was largely due to public dissatisfaction with government
* European Union was mandated to reform due to its vision & mission
* Former Soviet Bloc administrative reform went hand in hand with democratization and political reform
* Latin America was repeated economic crises the failure of 'primera generacion' of reforms to achieve economic stability
• Survey conducted in 1999 found that during the last two decades:
• 40 % of the world's 123 countries had at least one major reform movement
• 15 % had some public management reforms but no national level initiatives
• 22 % of the world's largest countries had 2 or more reform movements.
• Most of the major latin american countries have had one major reform especially with 'modernization of the state'
1. 1980’s – Government concentrated on economic liberalization and on privatization of state owned industries
2. 1990’s – focus on the administrative reform of core state functions and the building of state capacity
Two Phases:
A. Malaysia - Asia
B. France - Europe
C. Liberia - Africa
D. Mexico - Latin America
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
• Administrative Reforms
• Creation of a development administration
• Improvement of government's education and
training program
• Strengthening of professional competence of the
civil service
• Performance Appraisal
• Privatization
• Information Technology
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
•Reviewing of Public Policies
•Leadership Role
•Council of Modernization of
Public Policies
•Council d'Etat
•
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
'A New Era of Democracy‘
Today, we wholeheartedly embrace this change. We recognize that this change is not for the sake of change, but a fundamental break with the past, ... Corruption erodes faith in government because of the mismanagement and misapplication of public resources,...corruption is a national cancer. under my administration corruption is declared as 'public enemy number one'.
January 6, 2006
• Reform in the executive authority
• Restructuring of the national security
• Participatory government
• Civil service reform
• Downsizing and rightsizing the civil service
• Judiciary reform
• Constitutional reform
President Felipe Calderon
• Good governance
• Rule of law
• transparency
• accountability
• small and effective bureaucracy
• Peoples' participation
• Citizen’s Charter
• Qualified staff and personnel
• Streamline bureaucracy
• Regulatory reform
“ one of the fundamental ingredients of the new
governance is good government. A
government close to society, always ready to
listen to it; a government fully respectful of
legality, honest, transparent and efficient; but
above all, a government conscious of its
mission of promoting human and social
development as the basis for attaining a more
just and prosperous society”
President Vicente Fox of Mexico
2000-2006
As Obama often
says – “ a new era
of reform where
there will be a
progressive
mobilization to keep
the pressure on
and overcome
entrenched
interests” . . .
• Dr. Elaine C. Karmarck
Government Innovation
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance & Innovation
J.F.K SG., Harvard University November 2003
• Zifack, 1994
• Kickert, 2000
• Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000
• Fauroux, Spitz, 2000
• Centre de recherches politiques de la sorbomue
(CPRS), University of Paris1/ CNRS
Dreyfus, FRtrancois, 2008