IIAS Perspectives on the Main Trends and Critical Governance Issues in the Public Sector

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IIAS Perspectives on the Main Trends and
Critical Governance Issues in the Public Sector

• Rolet LORETAN, IIAS Director General
• Astana, 2013

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Introduction

• I Introducing IIAS
• Aims and mission
• Activities and governance structure and other
• II IIAS Perspectives on the Main Trends and
  Critical Governance Issues in the Public Sector
• Leadership and Professionalism
• Innovation in the public sector
• Coordination in the Public sector
• Co-production of public services

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1. IIAS Background

• Created in 1930 non-profit organisation
• IIAS a worldwide platform providing a space for
  exchanges that promote knowledge and practices to
  improve the organization and operation of Public
  Administration
• Represented by more than 100 countries

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IIAS aims and objectives

• promote the development of the administrative
  sciences
• provide a worldwide platform for exchanges
  between practitioners and academics
• establish a link between theoretical research and
  practice
• improve the organisation and operation of public
  administrations
• develop effective administrative methods and
  techniques
• contribute to the governance progress within the
  national and international administrations.

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6. IIAS Governance

• The General Assembly
• The Council of Administration
• The President
• The Director General and the Administrative
  Services
• The PRAC
• The Finance Committee
• The Publication Committee
• The Strategy Committee
• The IRAS Editorial Board

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IIAS activities and services

• To realize its objectives, the IIAS implements
  the following actions 
•  Organizes Annual International Congress,
  Conferences and meetings
• Sets up and manages Project and Study Groups on
  different key topics
• Publishes the IRAS (International Review of
  Administrative Sciences)
• Publishes books in several series for Public
  administration and Public Management
• Administrates a worldwide information network
  thanks to its
• Knowledge Portal
• Publishes a Newsletter three times a year.

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8. IIAS entities and regional groups IASIA,
EGPA, LAGPA and AGPA

• To cover the diversity of its members, the IIAS
  has currently four sub-entities
• The EGPA (European Group for Public
  Administration)
• The IASIA (International Association of Schools
  and Institutes of Administration)
• The LAGPA (Latin American Group for Public
  Administration)
• The AGPA (Asian Group for Public Administration)

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IIAS Knowledge Portal

• The knowledge portal is a communication platform
  on major issues of governance and the modern
  problems of governance.
• This is an information tool that allows keeping
  abreast of all developments and reforms in recent
  months in public administration.
• The knowledge portal also provides our community
  with information about our State members by
  region. Your contributions will be very welcome!
• http//www.pa-knowledge.org/

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Dialogues and special seminars

• TAD between Europe and America
• TED between West/East Europe
• MED European countries and Méditerranean
  Countries
• The African Forum
• The Regional Conference of IASIA on Construction
  of Service Oriented Government International
  Experiences and Practice in China, Performance
  evaluation Internatonal Experiences and
  Practices in China, Common Chellanges for
  Government Self-Reform

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5. IIAS Membership

• Seven members categories are proposed at IIAS
• any State
• any Governmental International Organization
  established by a Treaty and comprised at least in
  part of Member States of IIAS
• any Non-Governmental International Organization
• National Sections - groups of professionally
  qualified individuals in member or non-member
  countries of IIAS
• International Sections
• Corporate Members - institutions or associations
  duly set up having activities in the field of
  public administration on the national,
  international, or regional levels
• Honorary Members.

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Routes to future cooperation

• Developing a platform for Public Administration
• Preparing comparative analyses on key topics
  concerning Public Administration futures
• Using IIAS platform to put knowledge about your
  region trends in Public Administration and
  Public Management
• Establishing New Dialogues
• Contributing to different projects
• Sharing innovative practices

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Major trends in Public Administration

• Leadership and professionnalism
• Innovation in Public Sector
• Coordination in the Public Sector
• Co-production of public services

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Leadership and professionalism

• The notion of leadership and its complexities
• Contextual complexity of leadership
• The differences in understanding leadership in
  private vs. public sector
• Different values and guiding models in different
  geographic areas
• IASIA-UNDESA Joint International Taskforce on
  Strengthening Public Administration and
  Leadership at Local Level

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Innovation in the public sector

• Innovation is a necessary condition for creating
  a competitive economy
• The resource limitations is pushing to come up
  with innovative solutions to wicked problems
• Delivering innovative services in the public
  sector should be seen as an opportunity to break
  the political deadlock, reduce costs and improve
  services for citizens
• IIAS OECD new collaborative initiative on
  Innovation in Public Sector

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Coordination in the public services

• Coordination is a deliberate alignment of tasks
  and efforts of public sector entities in order to
  generate greater coherence in public policy and
  reduce duplication, gaps and contradictions
  within and between policies
• The complexity of challenges vs. existing
  structure and models of organisations and
  institutions
• IIAS Knowledge Portal special focus to this
  issue in collaboration with COCOPS group

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Co-production of public services

• Co-production of public services old concept
  revived
• The aims of the new IIAS study group are
• the increasing role of users in the production of
  public services globally
• the organization and structure of public services
  today
• the interaction between professionals and people
  using and co-producing services
• the ability and willingness of citizens to engage
  in co-production
• the potential benefits and adverse effects of
  citizen involvement in the production of public
  service.

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Thank you for your attention!

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