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No. 63 | 22 Oct 2021 |
Organisation of public administration: Agency governance, autonomy and accountability
Good governance of public agencies requires the application of a set of regulatory and managerial tools to find the right balance between autonomy of agencies and adequate oversight from portfolio ministries and other actors. This paper provides... |
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No. 62 | 19 May 2021 |
Implementation of laws on general administrative procedure in the Western Balkans
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the implementation of the recently adopted laws on administrative procedure in the five Western Balkan administrations. First the paper confirms the compliance of the laws with the principles of good... |
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No. 61 | 02 Feb 2021 |
Regulatory impact assessment and EU law transposition in the Western Balkans
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) systems of the six Western Balkans administrations, showing how they have been used to ensure evidence-based lawmaking and EU law transposition. The regulatory and... |
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No. 60 | 19 Nov 2020 |
Central public procurement institutions in the Western Balkans
This paper offers a comparative overview of central institutions that develop, regulate and manage the public procurement systems in the Western Balkans, also drawing on examples of good practices established in several EU countries. Its focus is a... |
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No. 59 | 19 Jun 2019 |
Guidelines for assessing the quality of internal control systems
Public sector organisations across the world are increasingly using advanced management concepts. One such concept, internal control, is a set of management arrangements designed to achieve an organisation’s objectives on time, to appropriate... |
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No. 58 | 12 Nov 2018 |
Managerial accountability in the Western Balkans
Managerial accountability means both a clear focus on performance and compliance with rules. It requires holding managers accountable for results by assigning them responsibility, delegating authority for decision making, and giving them the autonomy... |
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No. 57 | 10 Oct 2018 |
Toolkit for the preparation, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of public administration reform and sector strategies
The development and implementation of public administration reform (PAR) and sector strategies are both processes that require identifying the core problems a given country administration is facing, setting clear objectives and targets to address... |
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No. 56 | 02 Oct 2018 |
Implementing the EU Directives on the selection of economic operators in public procurement procedures
This Paper analyses and presents the implementation of new procurement tools relating to the choice of participants in public procurement procedures in selected EU member countries, based on the EU Directives, in order to provide examples to SIGMA’s... |
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No. 55 | 07 Sept 2018 |
Analysis of the Professionalisation of the Senior Civil Service and the Way Forward for the Western Balkans
Professionalisation of the senior civil service (SCS) is a key determinant of organisational performance in the public sector. It helps governments fulfil policy objectives. Building a professional SCS involves the development of both professional... |
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No. 54 | 13 Jun 2017 |
Developing Effective Working Relationships Between Supreme Audit Institutions and Parliaments
Supreme audit institutions and parliaments have an important role in holding governments to account for the use of public funds. Parliaments rely on the objective and professional work of supreme audit institutions to provide them with information... |
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No. 53 | 05 Apr 2017 |
Functioning of the Centres of Government in the Western Balkans
A well-functioning policy making system is a key pillar of a transparent and effective democratic system. It is also a crucial precondition for the country to make progress in the European integration process as the capacity of national... |
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No. 52 | 22 Jan 2015 |
Policy Making Review Kosovo
Kosovo is facing crucial challenges in developing a competitive economy, providing a decent level of public service and moving closer to the EU. Developing national policies to meet these objectives will require a functional policy co-ordination,... |
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No. 51 | 17 Jul 2014 |
Policy Making Review Montenegro
Both an ambitious European integration agenda and the need for Montenegro to develop national policies for a more competitive economy require a functioning policy co-ordination, a planning system with clear requirements, and proper institutional... |
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No. 50 | 17 Apr 2013 |
Government Debt Management and Operational Risk
The management of operational risk is at the heart of efficient government, but countries often fail to apply good or even routine operational risk management practices and have difficulty in understanding how to put the processes in place. Through... |
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No. 49 | 01 Nov 2012 |
Rethinking Europe's « Rule of Law » and Enlargement Agenda
This paper sets out a strategy calling for a radical overhaul of the manner in which both the EU and aspiring member states define and implement what the Copenhagen criteria refer to as the “Rule of Law” in pursuit of the elusive goal of... |
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No. 48 | 01 Nov 2012 |
Civil Service Professionalisation in the Western Balkans
This report examines the professionalisation of the civil service in seven Western Balkan states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia1, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. In the case of Bosnia and... |
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No. 47 | 29 Apr 2011 |
Centralised Purchasing Systems in the European Union
This study provides a comparative analysis of existing centralised purchasing institutions in selected EU Member States in terms of organisation, coverage, objectives and rationale, financing models, types of framework agreements and call-off... |
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No. 46 | 19 Nov 2010 |
The Right to Open Public Administrations in Europe
The aim of this paper is to explore the most problematic aspects of information access legal regimes and to provide some guidelines to policy makers, including legislators, governments and public administrators. The analysis is based on the... |
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No. 45 | 27 May 2010 |
Public Procurement in EU Member States - The Regulation of Contract Below the EU Thresholds and in Areas not Covered by the Detailed Rules of the EU Directives
How do Member States regulate their national public procurement systems below the EU thresholds and in areas not regulated in detail by the EU Directives? This paper provides the reader with an overview of different national policies, rules and... |
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No. 44 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Sustainability of Civil Service Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe Five Years After EU Accession
Before joining the EU in May 2004, Central and Eastern European countries were required to professionalise their civil services. Most were perceived as having made improvements sufficient to be granted EU membership status. But what happened next?... |
SIGMA Papers
SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) is a joint initiative of the OECD and the EU, principally financed by the EU. SIGMA Papers is a series of specialised reports that are focused on particular issues in governance and management, such as expenditure control, administrative oversight, interministerial co-ordination, public procurement and public service management.
Available in French (see link below) and other languages.
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- ISSN: 20786581 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20786581
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Organisation of public administration: Agency governance, autonomy and accountability
Jesper Johnsøn, Lech Marcinkowski and Dawid Sześciło
22 Oct 2021
Good governance of public agencies requires the application of a set of regulatory and managerial tools to find the right balance between autonomy of agencies and adequate oversight from portfolio ministries and other actors. This paper provides...
Implementation of laws on general administrative procedure in the Western Balkans
Timo Ligi and Andrej Kmecl
19 May 2021
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the implementation of the recently adopted laws on administrative procedure in the five Western Balkan administrations. First the paper confirms the compliance of the laws with the principles of good...
Regulatory impact assessment and EU law transposition in the Western Balkans
Bagrat Tunyan
02 Feb 2021
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) systems of the six Western Balkans administrations, showing how they have been used to ensure evidence-based lawmaking and EU law transposition. The regulatory and...
Central public procurement institutions in the Western Balkans
Marian Lemke, Eriks Mezalis, Dariusz Piasta and Susie Smith
19 Nov 2020
This paper offers a comparative overview of central institutions that develop, regulate and manage the public procurement systems in the Western Balkans, also drawing on examples of good practices established in several EU countries. Its focus is a...
Guidelines for assessing the quality of internal control systems
Miroslawa Boryczka, Daria Bochnar and Andra Larin
19 Jun 2019
Public sector organisations across the world are increasingly using advanced management concepts. One such concept, internal control, is a set of management arrangements designed to achieve an organisation’s objectives on time, to appropriate...
Managerial accountability in the Western Balkans
Klas Klaas, Lech Marcinkowski and Milena Lazarević
12 Nov 2018
Managerial accountability means both a clear focus on performance and compliance with rules. It requires holding managers accountable for results by assigning them responsibility, delegating authority for decision making, and giving them the autonomy...
Toolkit for the preparation, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of public administration reform and sector strategies
Péter Vági and Egle Rimkute
10 Oct 2018
The development and implementation of public administration reform (PAR) and sector strategies are both processes that require identifying the core problems a given country administration is facing, setting clear objectives and targets to address...
Implementing the EU Directives on the selection of economic operators in public procurement procedures
Marian Lemke, Susie Smith, Teja Kolar and Małgorzata Stachowiak
02 Oct 2018
This Paper analyses and presents the implementation of new procurement tools relating to the choice of participants in public procurement procedures in selected EU member countries, based on the EU Directives, in order to provide examples to SIGMA’s...
Analysis of the Professionalisation of the Senior Civil Service and the Way Forward for the Western Balkans
Annika Uudelepp, Wojciech Zielinski, Juhani Lemmik and Kaido Paabusk
07 Sept 2018
Professionalisation of the senior civil service (SCS) is a key determinant of organisational performance in the public sector. It helps governments fulfil policy objectives. Building a professional SCS involves the development of both professional...
Developing Effective Working Relationships Between Supreme Audit Institutions and Parliaments
Bianca Brétéché and Alastair Swarbrick
13 Jun 2017
Supreme audit institutions and parliaments have an important role in holding governments to account for the use of public funds. Parliaments rely on the objective and professional work of supreme audit institutions to provide them with information...
Functioning of the Centres of Government in the Western Balkans
Péter Vági and Keit Kasemets
05 Apr 2017
A well-functioning policy making system is a key pillar of a transparent and effective democratic system. It is also a crucial precondition for the country to make progress in the European integration process as the capacity of national...
Policy Making Review Kosovo
Keit Kasemets
22 Jan 2015
Kosovo is facing crucial challenges in developing a competitive economy, providing a decent level of public service and moving closer to the EU. Developing national policies to meet these objectives will require a functional policy co-ordination,...
Policy Making Review Montenegro
Klas Klaas
17 Jul 2014
Both an ambitious European integration agenda and the need for Montenegro to develop national policies for a more competitive economy require a functioning policy co-ordination, a planning system with clear requirements, and proper institutional...
Government Debt Management and Operational Risk
Hakan Tokaç and Mike Williams
17 Apr 2013
The management of operational risk is at the heart of efficient government, but countries often fail to apply good or even routine operational risk management practices and have difficulty in understanding how to put the processes in place. Through...
Rethinking Europe's « Rule of Law » and Enlargement Agenda
Kalypso Nicolaidis and Rachel Kleinfeld
01 Nov 2012
This paper sets out a strategy calling for a radical overhaul of the manner in which both the EU and aspiring member states define and implement what the Copenhagen criteria refer to as the “Rule of Law” in pursuit of the elusive goal of...
Civil Service Professionalisation in the Western Balkans
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
01 Nov 2012
This report examines the professionalisation of the civil service in seven Western Balkan states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia1, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. In the case of Bosnia and...
Centralised Purchasing Systems in the European Union
OECD
29 Apr 2011
This study provides a comparative analysis of existing centralised purchasing institutions in selected EU Member States in terms of organisation, coverage, objectives and rationale, financing models, types of framework agreements and call-off...
The Right to Open Public Administrations in Europe
OECD
19 Nov 2010
The aim of this paper is to explore the most problematic aspects of information access legal regimes and to provide some guidelines to policy makers, including legislators, governments and public administrators. The analysis is based on the...
How do Member States regulate their national public procurement systems below the EU thresholds and in areas not regulated in detail by the EU Directives? This paper provides the reader with an overview of different national policies, rules and...
Sustainability of Civil Service Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe Five Years After EU Accession
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
01 Jan 2009
Before joining the EU in May 2004, Central and Eastern European countries were required to professionalise their civil services. Most were perceived as having made improvements sufficient to be granted EU membership status. But what happened next?...