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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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