Balkan Area Goals

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Balkan Area Goals
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

1. Institutional building and strengthening
2. Decentralization
3. HR Management
4. Fighting corruption
5. Developing citizens participation
6. Improving service delivery

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Institutional building and strengthening
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Centre of Government
• Judiciary
• Local Government
• Central unit for implementation of civil service
• Control/Supervisory bodies

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Decentralization
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Competences
• Financial authonomy (property, taxes,
  collecting)
• Management of public services

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Human Resources Management
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Professional and merit based administration
• Depoliticized administration
• Ethical standards
• Training

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Fighting corruption
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Regional cooperation
• Promoting rule of law based culture
• Increasing transparency
• Anticorruption laws, mechanisms and procedures

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Developing citizens participation
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Legal preconditions
• Participatory culture and building community
  identity
• Cooperation between Government and civil society

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Improving service delivery
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Simplification of administrative procedures
• Setting of standards
• ICT
• Client oriented services
• Introducing competition (contracting out,
  privatization, )

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Areas of cooperation
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Civil service reform
• Downsize P.A. staff
• Improvement of civil service performance
• E-government
• Standards
• Improving service delivery
• Decentralization

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Activities
Consultative Meeting on Priorities in Innovating
Governance and P.A. in the Euro-Mediterranean
Region Naples, 17 20 may 2004

• Networking
• Exchange of information, best practices
• Conferences, Meetings
• Education, training

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