Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 16th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Working Group on Capacity Building of Civil Servants... Author(s) Ivana Zlatanovic Ministry of Finance Belgrade Serbia Ivana Zlatanovic, Snezana Antonijevic Title Experience of civil servants training in Serbia File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Bearing in mind the fact that, in Serbia, the Civil Servants Law and the State Administration Law, as well as the subsequent regulation were adopted at the end of 2005, namely at the beginning of 2006, the civil servants expressed the need to become acquainted with the novelties in the legislation regulating the work of civil servants. Thus, the Human Resource Management Service (HRM Service) commenced with activities targeted at the organization and the performance of training concerning the Civil Servants Law, the State Administration Law, the Regulation on the Preparation of the Human Resources Plan in State Administration, the Regulation on Conducting Internal and Public Competition to fill Vacancies in State Authorities and the Regulation on Appraisal of Civil Servants. Beside, significant attention was devoted to training concerning the job classification and staffing as well as to training concerning the HR management. Following the adoption of the General Programme of Professional Development of Civil Servants the organization of the seminars concerning the Civil Servants Law and Act’s for its implementation were continued. The GPPD is composed of nine thematic areas. Each thematic area included several modules within which the implementation of a different form of professional development is planned. The organization of the trainings concerning the implementation of the Regulation on internal and public competition for filling the job positions in state administration authorities with the aim of harmonizing different methods of HR selection in state administration authorities and presenting the possible methods of HR selection in state administration were carried out. Seminars are primarily designed for civil servants employed in HR units of state administration authorities and principal officers engaged in the HR selection process. The proper and complete implementation of the Regulation on the Appraisal of Civil Servants was supported by the organization of the seminar with the aim of improving the skills of defining the working objectives, as well as the procedure of assessing the civil servants. Several seminars were organized in great number of state administration authorities in order to provide support to the civil servants in charge of appraisal to successfully define the working objectives. In cooperation with General Secretariat of the Government as the beneficiary of the Twinning CARDS project “Strengthening Capacities in the Policy-Making and Coordination of the Work of the Ministries”, a high number of civil servants at the managerial positions from other state authorities had a chance to participate in following seminars: “Strategic Planning in State Administration”, “Management in State Administration – Leadership Skills“, “Project Management“. Several seminars concerning Community law and the EU procedures, as well as EU sectors policies are continuously organized in cooperation with the SEIO. The trainings with the aim of improving the internal financial controls and internal auditing in the public sector are organized within the project “Internal Auditing and Internal Financial Control in the Public Sector, phase 2” financed by the EU through the European Agency for Reconstruction. From the beginning of the implementation of the annual programme of professional development, several trainings concerning the methods and techniques for the implementation of the analyses and project cycle management in state administration were organized in cooperation with the Joint Project “Towards the More Efficient Reform Implementation”.
