Competence: Public Administration and Good Governance
Good governance is the basic principle of our efforts to strengthen public administrations in partnership with our clients. This implies that public administrations shall continuously change and develop to a more open, transparent, accountable, equitable, cost-effective and responsive form of governance. We provide services in strengthening institutions, capacity building measures, stakeholder involvement and decentralisation processes.
Selected Project References:
Support to the Training Institute of Public Administration
Albania, 2007 – 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (CARDS) Beneficiary: Training Institute of Public Administration Modernisation of Albania’s administrative capacity and strengthening of its key institutions, improvements to its human ressource management, strengthening of the internal capacities of the Training Institute for Public Administration, development of training systems, methodologies, guidance documents and quality control standards. Keywords: Public Administration, Human Ressource Development, Human Ressource Management, Training
Tourism consulting services for hotel standardisation and classification in Bhutan Bhutan, 2007 – 2009 Client: Austrian Development Agency Beneficiary: Department of Tourism Support the Bhutanese Department of Tourism to successfully standardise and classify tourism facilities in Bhutan by developing a system of guidelines, institutional frameworks, task descriptions and training programmes in line with the objectives of the sustainable tourism development strategy. Keywords: Tourism, Training, Hotel Standardisation and Classification, Quality Assurance and Management
Technical assistance for project preparation and implementation of the Phare CBC programme Bulgaria - Romania Bulgaria, 2006 – 2007 Client: Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (PHARE) Preparation
for the effective implementation of cross border cooperation (CBC)
programmes, assistance to the preparation of programme documents,
capacity building in the administrative structures and support to
prospective project promoters. Keywords: Programme Management, Structural Funds, Cross Border Cooperation (CBC), Project Preparation, ERDF, Awareness Raising
Institutional support to the Ministry of Justice for development of a Sectoral Policy and Budgetary Support Programme
Burkina Faso, 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission Beneficiary: Ministry of Justice Supporting
the implementation and monitoring of the PC PANRJ (Consolidation Plan
of the National Action Plan for the Justice Reform) and strengthening
the capacities of the Ministry of Justice in the field of sectoral
policy planning and programming. Keywords: Justice Reform, Public Procurement Management, Sectoral Policy Planning and Programming
Decentralisation reform process in Congo
Congo, 2007 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (FED) Introduction of a decentralisation reform for the national public administration to grant more competences, responsibilities and financial ressources to regional and local authorities. Preparation of terms of reference for identification studies, participation at the national forum, proposal of a fiscal equalisation model and elaboration of financial viability studies. Keywords: Public Administration, Decentralisation, Budgeting, Project Formulation
Support to the Social Fund for Development in preparing the
programme budget estimate and preparing/launching three Works Tenders
and one Call for Proposals
Egypt, 2007 – 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (MEDA) Beneficiary: Social Fund for Development Focus
on activities of the “Integrated Services for the Poor Programme”
involving infrastructure works as well as social development activities
such as education, vocational training or health in urban and rural
areas suffering from poverty. Keywords: Poverty Reduction, Social and Economic Development, Infrastructure, Procurement, Grant Scheme Management, Evaluation Institutional strengthening of the Egyptian Tourist Authority (ETA)
Egypt, 2007 – 2009 Client: Austrian Agency for European Integration and Economic Development (MEDA Twinning) Beneficiary: Ministry of Tourism Strengthening
the institutional capacity of ETA and maximising economic development
and employment creation in the tourism sector in order to achieve
sustainable growth of tourism in Egypt. Keywords:
Strategy, Marketing Planning, Marketing Organisations, Organisational
Development, IT, Human Ressource Development, Training, Twinning Technical Assistance for Institutional Capacity for the Government Communication Directorate
Jordan, 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission Beneficiary: Government Communication Directorate Strengthening the Government Communication Directorate through improved communication of governmental plans and activities to the civil society, supporting the existing Government Communication Network (Government Spokespersons). Keywords: Communication, Training Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Finance of Macedonia for the estimation of the costs of the transferred competences to Local Self Government Units (Lot 11)
Macedonia (FYROM), 2008 Client: European Agency for Reconstruction Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance Assisting the Ministry of Finance to implement its fiscal decentralisation successfully, by estimating the cost of competences transferred to local self-government units (LSGUs) with a view to improving the transfer system currently used to assign fiscal ressources to LSGUs. Keywords: Finance, Decentralisation, Local Self Government Units, Budgeting, Revenue Cultural development programme Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia (FYROM), 1998 – 2004 Client: European Commission (PHARE) Beneficiary: Ministry of Culture Support
the reorganisation of the Ministry, promote Public Private Partnerships
and stimulate the development of commercial, semi-commercial and
autonomous management of cultural institutions, monitoring of a special
fund for the stimulation and execution of 42 different art projects. Keywords:
Cultural Heritage, Management of Cultural Institutions, Art, Public
Private Partnerships, Grant Scheme Management, Project Preparation,
Evaluation Strengthening of the accounting monitoring to the EDF National Authorising Officer (NAO)
Mauritania, 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (EDF) Development of an accounting system for the NAO to implement an appropriate IT system for monitoring and accounting. Advise on organisational aspects such as organisational design, human ressources, management of information and communication. Establishment of an internal quality control system, including a system for monitoring projects on the ground. Keywords: Accounting, Monitoring, Organisational Design, Quality Control Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) Evaluation
Mauritania, 2008 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (EDF) Beneficiary: Ministry of Economy and Finance Evaluation of the Financial Management Reform Programme to increase accountability and transparency for the 10th EDF framework reviewing the Mauritanian Public Finance Management system, based on 31 high-level indicators of the Public Financial Management Performance Measurement Framework (PEFA). Keywords: Public Financial Management Performance (PEFA), Evaluation
Elaboration of an institutional twinning project fiche and/or
technical assistance project fiche to the Directorate for Public
Companies and Privatisation (DEPP)
Morocco, 2008 – 2009 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (EDF) Beneficiary: Department for Public Enterprises and Privatisation Strengthening
of the cooperation between Morocco and the EU under Accord
d´Association through development and implementation of public private
partnerships and technical assistance, institutional twinning between
the Moroccan Department for Public Enterprises and Privatisation and a
similar structure in an EU member state. Keywords: Public Private Partnerships, Twinning, Project Preparation
Institution building, secondary legislation drafting and training concerning the movable cultural heritage and cultural goods Romania, 2007 – 2008 Client: Austrian Agency for European Integration and Economic Development (PHARE Twinning) Beneficiary: Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs Improving
the capacity of the ministries and subordinated bodies involved in the
protection of moveable cultural goods to combat illegal trade
and export, theft, destruction and forgery, development of a
monitoring and co-ordination IT system to form an integrated
protection strategy. Keywords:
Cultural Heritage, Organisational Design, Communication,
Interorganisational and international cooperation Management
Information Systems, IT, Legislation, Monitoring, Training, Procurement
Evaluation of the tender and implemantation of the supply contract for the media programme
Serbia, 2007 – 2008 Client: European Agency for Reconstruction (CARDS) Beneficiary: Yugoslav Film Archive Media reform in Serbia developing access for Serbia's citizens to independent public and private media, improving the quality of the programme, assistance to EAR in tender evaluation and supervision of the project implementation. Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Media, IT, Procurement, Evaluation, Supervision, Training
Strategic management advice for the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development of GoSS Sudan, 2008 – 2009 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (FED) Beneficiary: Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development Strengthening the capacity, transparency, and accountability of the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development, building knowledge and competence of its senior management staff, increasing the capacity to receive and administer development ressources. Keywords: Strategy, Organisational Design, Human Ressources, Communication Training
Mid term review and financial evaluation of the Municipal Administration Modernisation Programme (MAM)
Syria, 2008 – 2009 Client: Delegation of the European Commission (MEDA) Beneficiary: Ministry of Local Administration and Environment Provision of information to decision-makers in the government of Syria and the European Commission for an informed judgement about the performance of the Municipal Administration Modernisation, evaluating the consistency of MAM within its policy/programme framework, the potential future impact of MAM, future sustainabiliy of benefits, possible programme reorientation and extension. Keywords: Public Administration, Municipal Administration, Evaluation
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