“Central and Eastern European Countries Inside and
Outside the European Union: Avoiding a New Divide”
Vilnius, Lithuania, May 13 – 15, 2004
Conference venue: Hotel Reval Lietuva, Vilnius, Lithuania
Organized in cooperation with the
Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, May
12, 2004
Pre-conference
meetings:
15.00 - 19.00 NISPAcee Steering Committee meeting
20.00 - 21.00 Meeting of the NISPAcee Steering Committee members and Conference Coordinators
17.00 – 21.00 Registration of participants
Thursday, May
13, 2004
07.30 - 09.00 Registration of participants
09.00 -
09.30 Plenary
Session
Chair: Barbara Kudrycka, NISPAcee President, Rector of Bialystok School of PA, Poland
Official
opening (Greetings and Welcome)
Barbara Kudrycka,
NISPAcee President
Eugenius Chlivickas, President of Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association, President of Training Centre, Ministry of Finance, Vilnius, Lithuania
Virgilijus Bulovas, Minister, Ministry of Interior Affairs,
Vilnius, Lithuania
09.30 - 10.30 Keynote presentations
Introduction of the main conference theme by the general rapporteur
Bob Bonwitt, Head of SIGMA/OECD, Paris, France
Speakers:
Louis Hersom, Principal Administrator, External Relations Directorate-
General, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Topic: The European Union and Its Neighbours - Looking Towards
the Future
Discussion
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.50 Key note presentations – continuation
Petras Austrevicius, Deputy Chancellor of the Government for EU Affairs,
Vilnius, Lithuania
Topic:
Mihailo
Crnobrnja, Government of Serbia, Belgrade,
Serbia & Montenegro
Topic: “The
Western Balkans: An EU Policy Engagement Needed”
Discussion
11.50 - 12.20 Ceremony
of the Alena Brunovská Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration
Presentation of the Award by Barbara Kudrycka, NISPAcee President and
Ludmila Gajdošova, NISPAcee Executive Director to the recipient:
Martin Potůček, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Topic: “Public Policy: Bridge over Troubled Water?”
12.20 - 12.30 Call for participation in new
projects; organizational announcements
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Panel
Sessions and Forums:
- Panel Session on
European Accreditation of Public Administration
Programmes
- New NISPAcee
Working Group on Ethics in Governance:
Call for participation and discussion about
the working group agenda
- Forum for Heads of
Training Centres and Institutes of Public
Administration
- Forum for Young Professionals in Public
Administration
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30 Working Sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings
of Working Groups
19.30 Departure for the Gala dinner at Le Meridien Villon (19 km) participating by Minister Virgilijus Bulovas from the Ministry of Interior Affairs and/or other High officials. Le Meridien Villon is the summer and winter resort of Lithuania. Internationally acclaimed as the most elegant and luxurious resort and convention centre in the Baltic States, the Villon combines the best of International style, cuisine and service with the attentive and friendly hospitality of Lithuania.
Friday, May 14,
2004
9.00 - 10.30 Working Sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings
of Working Groups
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Working Sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of Working Groups
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Working Sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings
of Working Groups
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.45
Panel Sessions and Forums:
- Panel Session on Joint NASPAA – NISPAcee
Governance Improvement Cooperative Project
- New NISPAcee Working Group on the Role of Public
Policy and Management Education and Training in CEE:
Call for participation and discussion about the
working group agenda
- Presentation of the
New NISPAcee Publications
- Presentation of
the NISPAcee Information Portal
17.00 – 18.30
NISPAcee Business Meeting
Opening
Annual Report of activities
Financial
report
Future
Plans
Elections
Others
Discussions
Representatives of the NISPAcee Member Institutions are expected to participate in the Business Meeting
All other participants are warmly invited and welcome to join the meeting.
19:00
Departure for the Folk style dinner - in the "Chili Village".
This
restaurant will meet the visitors with
its harmonious old styled Lithuanian
authentic and modern synthesis. The Lithuanian traditional
meals and the folk
styled music with
jokers will entertain the visitors during the whole evening.
Saturday, May
15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Working Sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of
Working Groups
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Chair: László Vass, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public
Administration, Hungary
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
Report of the general
rapporteur Bob Bonwitt, Head of SIGMA/OECD,
Paris, France
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
15.00 - 17.00 Sightseeing trip in the downtown of Vilnius
Thursday, May 13, 2004 14.00 - 15.30
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Panel Session on European
Accreditation of Public Administration Programmes
Chair: Theo
van der Krogt, EAPAA Secretary, University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands
Speakers:
Gyorgy Jenei, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration, Hungary
Juraj Nemec, University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Yurii Polianskiy, Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine
The quality of government has a major impact on the
lives of individual citizens and the orderly functioning of society. Systematic
training programs are essential for ensuring the quality of (future) government
officials. Through accreditation, the European Association for Public Administration
Accreditation (EAPAA) wants to make a contribution to the improvement of
quality and assurance in academic level Public Administration programs in
Europe. The European Accreditation of Programs on Public Administration by
EAPAA refers to: the evaluation and
continuous improvement of Public Administration programs that are offered by
European universities and other academic level institutes with regard to their
ability to satisfy stated or implied standards of quality followed by a formal
decision to recognize or to not recognize the program.
Information
about the EAPAA, established in 2000, and all related documents for
accreditation of public administration programmes can be accessed through their
website www.eapaa.org. The panel session
aims to provide conference participants with additional information and an
opportunity to discuss any questions and to learn about the experiences of
ongoing accreditations from the panellists.
These panellists include the General Secretary of EAPAA, members of the
Accreditation Committee and representatives of programmes which have already
been accredited. Opportunities for accreditation of PA programmes from CEE
countries will be discussed.
- New NISPAcee Working Group on Ethics
in Governance:
Call for participation and discussion
about the working group agenda
Program Coordinators:
Barbara
Kudrycka, School of Public Administration, Bialystok, Poland
Charles
Garofalo, Texas State University, Department of Political Science, San Marcos,
USA
Presentation:
John-Mary Kauzya, Chief of Governance and Public Administration Branch DPADM/UNDESA,
New York, USA
Topic: Concept of the Regional Charter for Public Service: Prospects for improving ethics and professionalism
Respondent:
Dimitri Argyriades, Advisor, DPADM/UNDESA, New York, USA
Ethics in governance is a pervasive concern in many countries across the globe. Many governments have instituted ethics education and training programs, many public agencies have installed ethics officers or ethics advisors, and many have created codes of ethics as well. Calls for ethical leadership can be heard on every continent, along with demands for increased transparency and trust, active citizenship, and a stable civil society. Accountability, responsibility, and legitimacy – ethical public administration - are on the agenda everywhere, including Central and Eastern Europe. In this context, therefore, NISPAcee would like to add a new working group on Ethics in Governance to its mission of research, education and training, and collaboration among public servants, politicians, and scholars.
Beginning with the May 2004 conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Working Group on Ethics in Governance will launch a dialogue on the development and implementation of research projects, curricula, workshops, and other initiatives designed to move member nations toward the overall goal of ethical public service. For example, one empirical effort might be surveys to elicit citizens’, civil servants', and elected officials' expectations and perceptions of the nature and purpose of ethical public administration. A second inquiry might involve Working Group members in an examination of the extent to which and how civil servants exercise judgment and discretion, as contrasted to simply following rules and procedures, in their daily decision making. A third possible direction might be to explore present and prospective relationships between public and private organizations. The point is that ethics in governance offers numerous theoretical and practical opportunities for research, training, and cooperation on the local, national, and regional level across Central and Eastern Europe.
As every country aims at ensuring adequate levels of development and well being of its people, it is recognized that a transparent, accountable, professional, and highly ethical Public service is critical, especially in supporting effective, equitable, accessible and fair delivery of essential public services as well as in the utilization of scarce resources for the benefit of the people. Many countries have been for long engaged in searching for effective ways of ensuring this kind of Public service but with mixed success. With the current trends of globalization and regionalization, national efforts are increasingly becoming insufficient for ensuring harmony in behaviour and out look of Public servants that belong to one regional grouping. There have been consequently efforts to evolve measures that can provide impetus for countries belonging to a region to share public service behaviours and standards that are not only similar but also predictable across borders.
The main objective of this session is to discuss the above described issues with the conference participants, to attract interested individuals to participate in this new working group and to select directions of the working group programme for the upcoming year. All interested individuals as well as possible donors of such an activity are warmly welcome to participate in this session.
The additional objective is to use the two presentations of the UN experts as points of departure to discuss how useful regional charters of Public service can be in promoting transparency, accountability, professionalism, and ethical standards in the Public service. It may also be viable to explore during the discussion, to what extent such measures can be adopted in the region served by NISPAcee.
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Forum for Heads of Training Centres
and Institutes of Public Administration
Chair: Eugenijus Chlivickas, Training Centre of the Ministry of
Finance, Vilnius, Lithuania
President of Lithuanian Public
Administration Training Association
Speakers:
Lichia Saner Yiu, Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND), Geneva,
Switzerland
Carel Jacobs, ROI Training &Coaching&Consultancy, Den Haag, The
Netherlands
Lucica Matei, Dean, National School of Political Studies and Public
Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Ricardas Malkevicius, Consultant of Lithuanian Public
Administration Training Association
Egle Kesyliene, General director, American English
School, Vilnius, Lithuania
Jurga Jakubauskiene, Business development consultant,
City&Guilds. Pitman Qualifications, for Lithuanian region
In
many central and eastern European countries, public administration reforms are
in progress. Public servants’ training and development of their qualifications
are amongst the areas of concern. Making an attempt to solve complicated
problems, the focus is on increasing the efficiency of governing structures, on
the stability of the management apparatus and on development of public
servants’ professionalism.
Training
of civil servants of state institutions and municipalities is closely related
to the creation of a new quality concept. The objective is to create an
integrated and easily manageable training system as well as to consolidate the
development of this system and related activity programs. Development of a
civil servants’ training system is an inevitable measure for strengthening the
efficiency of the public service and an important element of public
administration reform. The development
of a long-term civil servants’ training policy is therefore of the utmost
importance.
The main
objective of this Forum is to invite Heads of Training Centres and Institutes
of Public Administration from Central and Eastern Europe to discuss civil
servants’ training policy and development of training systems under the new
conditions of public administration reforms in central and eastern European
countries both inside and outside the European Union and to share the
experiences of their Centres and Institutes. The Forum, while pursuing the main
objectives and mission of NISPAcee, should also help in fostering of co-operation
among institutions within these countries and the development of their programmes. Several Heads have been invited to share their
experiences but more time would be devoted to the active discussion of all
participants presented at the session.
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Forum for Young
Professionals in Public Administration
NISPAcee
is an open and democratically steered network with over 120 member
institutions. It aims to serve its members’ needs and tries to meet them
through new initiatives. Inspired by the
Steering Committee and the Secretariat, a group of young researchers and
instructors from NISPAcee member institutions is happy to announce the opportunity
to create a FORUM FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS across European countries and beyond,
which aims to bring together people who are at the beginning of their PA
career. The goal of the Forum is to bring young researchers and instructors
together in order to address the specific needs and challenges they face.
NISPAcee believes that young professionals can significantly contribute to the
public administration reforms in the region; therefore, it is critical for the
future of NISPAcee to assist in their professional development and organization.
As a result of a questionnaire distributed by NISPAcee, more then 50 young professionals have subscribed to take part in the Forum activities. Registration for this activity has been re-opened to all individuals interested in participating via the NISPAcee website, from April 2004.
Young
professionals who will be present at the Conference will have an opportunity to
discuss the future activities of the Forum at its first meeting.
Programme of the meeting:
Gayane Selimyan, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Topic: Challenges facing young
professionals; why we need a forum?
Claudia Novac, Center for Rural Assistance, Timisoara, Romania
Topic: Networking, networking, networking
Ieva Lazareviciute, Lithuania
Topic: EPAN Doctoral Network - current activities and future plans
Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Topic: Concluding remarks and plans for the future
Discussion – 30 minutes
Friday, May 14,
2004 15.30 - 16.45
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Panel
Session on Joint NASPAA – NISPAcee Governance Improvement Cooperative Project
Chair: Kenneth Tolo, Executive Director, NASPAA,
Washington D.C., USA
The
primary activity of the joint NASPAA (National Association of Schools of Public
Affairs and Administration, USA)/NISPAcee Project (2000 –2004) is to implement
a program of applied policy research and technical assistance conducted by
NISPAcee Schools and Institutes of Public Administration that links CEE/NIS
governments and higher education institutions, with assistance from the NASPAA
Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
These partnership projects have introduced CEE/NIS public administration
centres to their local, regional, and national governments as sources of
technical capacity for applied research in government problem-solving. More
then 20 different projects have been chosen and implemented in almost every CEE
country.
The aim of
this panel session is a wide dissemination of the most relevant and sustainable
outcomes of implemented projects. Speakers include researchers of the most
successful projects, which resulted in outcomes with a high potential for
transferability to other institutions or countries. Presenters will identify
“best practices,” “lessons learned,” and other useful outcomes and
recommendations.
Speakers:
Juraj Nemec, University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Topic: Overall evaluation of the project results
Allan Rosenbaum, Florida International University, USA
Applied Policy Research and Management Project: ” Developing Mechanism of Management Decentralisation in Regional and Local Health Systems with the Aim to Optimise the Functioning of the Odessa Oblast’s Medical Institutions.”
Saleh Murzaev, Academy of Management by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic,
Kyrgyz Republic
Applied Policy Research and Management Project: „Rendering Methodical Assistance to State Bodies in Improvements of Realization of the Competitive Selection and Certification of Civil Servants of Kyrgyz Republic.“
Yurii Polianskiy, Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine
Technical Assistance Project: „MPA Quality Strengthening Project, Ukraine – the Provision of Technical Assistance to Evaluating and Strengthening the Quality of the MPA Programme.”
B.J. Reed, President of NASPAA, Washington D.C., USA
Topic: NASPAA International Cooperation
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New NISPAcee Working Group on The
Role of Public Policy and Management Education and Training in CEE: Call for
participation and discussion about the working group agenda
Program Coordinators:
Gyorgy Jenei, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration,
Hungary
Lance T. LeLoup, Washington State University, Washington, USA
Frits van den Berq, Advisor, The Netherlands
During the last decade, East-West cooperation in evolving and teaching new public policy and management programs at universities and at other institution of higher education in CEE has taken many forms:
-Developing new public policy and public management programmes at universities based on various models at western institutions.
-Making available and accessible to Eastern partners Western public administration and policy literature, ranging from research methods to highly theoretical to highly applied approaches.
-Creating curricula and teaching materials to provide the content of programmes based on European and American models.
-Fostering collaborative research programmes, including joint conference papers, articles, edited volumes, and research grants.
-Organizing and sponsoring domestic and overseas internship programmes.
-Developing educational resources and technologies particularly in libraries and including computers.
-Assistance in developing in-service training programmes, seminars, and courses for public sector employees.
-Faculty development activities including language skills, research methods, course development, and research activities.
-Faculty and student exchanges between Eastern and Western partners.
-Training courses for central bankers.
-Professional development for lawyers and other professionals.
-Exchange of policy analysis and proposals in housing, social programmes, and other areas.
This period of East-West cooperation is over. After May 1st 2004, 10 countries of CEE will become integral part of the West. With their EU membership, their institutionalised position
among the Western institutions will be completed.
From this point on, their public administration education and training systems have to contribute to the development of public institution capacities which can meet EU requirements.
Other countries of the CEE region face with serious challenges of modernisation as pertains to their public administration education and training. Some of them are already scheduled to be members of the EU some of them are not, but they hold chances for membership or chances for strategic partnership in the long run.
This means that strategic cooperation and collaboration is needed among countries in CEE because they have shared objectives in the modernisation of public administration education and training and of their administrative systems. In this new period of cooperation new challenges will arise and new directions will be needed.
9. More emphasis on being a
member of a Union, which means co-operating
with other members but also with the
organizational units at EU-level.
10. More emphasis on representing
all Union-members in certain
situations, e.g., the Schengen
Border.
We are calling participants of the
Vilnius conference to come together to exchange our experiences on these
issues.
What are the common problems of the
development of public administration education and training?
What are the main professional and
financial limits?
What are the shared objectives of the
development in education and training?
After our discussion, with your comments
we can decide whether this theme is supported by the participants and we can
finalise the program of the Working Group based on your recommendations.
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Presentation of new
NISPAcee publications:
Improving the Quality of East and West European Public Services (edited by Elke Loeffler and Mirko Vintar) – presented by Mirko Vintar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Publication on Anti-corruption Training (will be published; edited by Bryane Michael ) - presented by Bryane Michael, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Proceedings, NISPAcee Conference 2003 (will be published in May 2004, edited by Bryane Michael, Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler) - presented by Bryane Michael, Oxford University, United Kingdom
How to Be a Better Policy Advisor, Manual for Trainers (edited by Ieva Lazareviciute) – presented by Ieva Lazareviciute, Lithuania
Health Care Delivery Systems: Opportunities for Public Management Education in Central and Eastern Europe (edited by Allan Rosenbaum, Juraj Nemec, Kenneth Tolo) – presented by Juraj Sklenar, NISPAcee
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Presentation of NISPAcee Information Portal:
General information about structure and functionality
of the NISPAcee website.
Tutorials to the Database of Institutions and Persons, User Registration
System.
Discussion on possible future development –
new functionality needs/requests, improving of existing layout.
Presented by Jan Andruch, Consultant in E-information Management, NISPAcee
Working Sessions on the
Main Conference Theme:
“Central and Eastern
European Countries Inside and Outside the European Union: Avoiding a New Divide”:
A. Problems facing the New Member States
Program Coordinators:
Gyorgy Jenei, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration,
Hungary
Frits van den Berq, Consultant, The Netherlands
There is strict conditionality in EU membership. The New Member States have become parts of the European Administrative Community. It is required from all NMS not only to have a functioning democratic and market-economic order, but they also have to guarantee that they can assume the obligations arising from membership and can take on the objectives of political union as well as economic and monetary union.
There are ongoing convergence and divergence between the administrative systems of the EU member states but they have common requirements at the same time. The main objective of the papers is to contribute
- to the accomplishment of the legal and functional requirements of the EU membership
- to the guarantee of the implementation of free democratic principles and the rule of law
- and to the strengthening of the capability of efficiently and effectively dealing with national problems and European affairs.
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
1: Introduction. Perspectives, problems and failures of local and regional
policy
Andris Runde, Mirabella SIA, Riga, Latvia
Paper: Perspectives and problems of local Baltic brands in the context of the European integration
Edvins Vanags, Inga Vilka, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Paper: Identification of assisted areas within regional policy in Latvia
Andrei Lobatch, Belarusian State Economic University, Minsk, Belarus
Paper: EU membership and growing regional disparities: Poland’s strategy options to optimize structural transfers from the Union
Erik Moora, Tanel Oppi, Public Service Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
Paper: The
failures of the EU regional policy in Estonia?
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30
Session 2: Development of institutional capacities on the regional
levels of public administration (absorption capacity, effectiveness, programme
management)
Jan Pavel, Markéta Šumpíková, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
Paper: EU pre-accession funds: absorption capacity and effectiveness of their use, with focus on regional level on the Czech Republic
Roberta Benini, Nomisma Institute of Economic Research, Bologna, Italy
Paper: The effectiveness of the Structural funds implementation capacity in the Accession countries: The case of the three Baltic States. Critical economic and institutional issues
Vitalis Nakrosis, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: The
capacities of new member states to manage EU funds: From absorption to value
added
Magdalena Kun-Buczko, Bialystok School of Public Administration, Poland
Paper: The capacity building of the institutional system as one of the elements necessary to the effective structural funds absorption. On the example of Poland and some Member States’ experiences.
Anna Daszuta, Bialystok School of Public Administration, Poland
Paper: Problem of so called “readiness” as a determinant of success in Structural Funds programmes managements, based on the example of Podlaskie Region in Poland.
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00
Session 3: Challenges in
governance and public policy making in the context of EU membership (Key
issues and problems in the economy and public administration; reform efforts)
Krzysztof Szczerski, Business high School, Nowy Sacz, Poland
Paper: Multi-level governance in post-communist conditions - challenges in govern ability for the new EU member states
Jane Järvalt, Supreme Court of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Paper: Career
management in transitional administration: The case of the Estonian civil
service
Rafal Stanek, SST-Consult, Krakow, Poland
Paper: Preparing local and regional governments for implementation of environmental investment heavy EU directives: experience from Poland
Amanda Sloat, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
Paper: Fixing
and old divide: The political participation of women in an enlarged Europe
Saturday, May
15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Public administration reform
efforts and key issues; problems
of economic development. Conclusions; (Completing of the report for the
closing plenary session; Plans for the next year)
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
B. Problems facing the States outside the enlarged European Union
Program Coordinators:
Gyorgy Jenei, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration,
Hungary
Frits van den Berg, The Netherlands
Outside the enlarged European Union, there will remain a large number of states, each at different stages of development, with different relationships both with the EU and with each other.
But when they have the ambition to get closer to the European Union or even becoming candidates for accession, they can then make the necessary changes and scarce resources can thus be optimized.
The main aim of the papers is to support the foundation of public administration which can contribute to the development of democracy with stability of political pluralism and functional checks and balances and of market economy being able to compete.
The function of the papers and discussions is to support the “Neighbours of the European Union” in implementing the administrative law principles (reliability, predictability, openness, transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness) and in setting the EU administrative standards.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30
Session 1: Introduction.
Implementation issues of the EU requirements in policy making and
administration capacity building.
Presentations:
Dragos Jaliu, National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Paper: Assessing the “international funds” management capacity at the central public administration level: Romanian case
Li Tchon, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus
Paper: Base line EU enlargement study
Nehare Zeqiraj, Office of KPC Coordinator UNMIK/ Pristina-Kosovo, Albania
Paper: Convention for workers right, gender equality and challenges in Kosovo as a country in transition
Saturday, May
15, 2004
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
Program Coordinators:
Alexej Barabashev, Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Juraj Nemec, University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
All CEE countries face a set of common challenges in public policy and administration. The key issue is the modernisation of the national administrative systems and strengthening the cooperation among them in the Central and Eastern European region.
The main goal of the papers in this section is to contribute to the building of institutions for a capable public administration which means
- a strong central capacity for formulating and coordinating policy;
- efficient and effective delivery systems;
- motivated and capable staff (merit-based recruitment and adequate compensation in promotion);
- strengthening the role of competitive markets to improve delivery;
- setting up performance-based public agencies; and
- improving delivery through the core public sector and contracting out to the private sector and NQOs at the same time.
The papers and discussions try to support the administrative systems of CEE region in solving such problems as
- weak capacity and fragmented policy making;
- lack of policy coordination;
- weak capacities of institutional mechanisms to improve delivery; and
- controlling corruption.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30
Session 1: Education
Valentin Afanasjev, Natalia Kozyreva, State University of Management, Moscow, Russian Federation
Paper: The ways of improving the
training of public servants in the process of reforming public service
Philip Murphy, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Paper: Public administration education
in South-eastern Europe: Accelerating the process
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
2: Corruption
Mihaela Carausan, National School of Political Studies and PA, Bucharest, Romania
Paper: Transparency and integrity of PA in Romania (The phenomenon of corruption and its perception)
Patrycja Suwaj, Bialystok School of PA, Poland
Paper: Preventing corruption and conflict of interest- necessity or fashion? Case of Poland
Ciprian Ungureanu, University”Stefan cel Mare”, Suceava, Romania
Paper: The corruption. A problem of this
century
Olga Vidlakova, Institute for Legal Education and Information, Prague, Czech Republic
Topic:
How to fight corruption and conflicts of interest - An analytical
insight into the corruption in public service in Central and Eastern European
countries, with particular reference to the candidate countries to the EU
Raymon Bruce, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Paper: Market transaction relations
between Eastern European and Western European countries; An action research
view
11.00 - 12.30 Session 3: Attitudes to the European
integration
Liudas Mazylis, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Paper: Motivation of popular support towards European
integration in CEE countries
Zoltan Balogh, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and PA, Hungary
Paper: Implementation of new regionalism in the CEECs
14.00 - 15.00
Session 4: General topics
Noah Simmons, Open Society, New York, United States
Paper: Decentralization and health
systems reform after the cold war: One size does not fit all
Gabriel Soos, Tocqueville Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: How to measure the quality of
local democracy? Methodological lessons from two comparative projects
Charles Garofalo, Texas State University, San Marcos, United States
Paper: Leadership development and moral agency in the public service
Saturday, May
15, 2004
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
WORKING GROUPS
I. Working Group on Politico-Administrative Relations
WG Programme Coordinators:
Bernadette Connaughton, University of Limerick, Ireland
Georg Sootla, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia
B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Theme 2004: “Various decision and
discourse arenas at different levels and stages of the policy process”
The contemporary
focus on governance can be understood in part as a response to the challenge of
governing complex and fragmented societies, and the difficulties faced by the
state in attempting to solve complicated and intractable social problems
through direct forms of intervention. Therefore, in addition to the traditional
focus on the relationship between the principal actors - politicians and civil
servants - the concept of governance implies the presence, impact of,
necessity and contribution of a variety of other actors in the policy-making
arena. It may be argued that in
the case of Central and Eastern Europe the development of channels, access and
the roles of these actors are weak. This
in turn has a negative impact on the institutionalization of public policies in
CEE countries and capacities to govern, given that traditional devices of
political, as well as administrative, responsibility and accountability do not
optimally work in the region. In view of
this the permanent working group on politico-administrative relations is
interested in the presentation of analysis of the various decision and
discourse arenas at different levels and stages of the policy process
in specific sectors (e.g. Telecommunications, Environment, Agriculture) or a
dimension of governance (e.g. policy arenas in central-local relations,
especially in the context of EU accession.)
In order to study these arenas, main channels and styles of
government – civil society interactions (consultations, participation,
feedback, impact, manipulation etc.) in the policy process and the diverse
configurations of stakeholders, patterns have to be identified. A detailed outline of the rationale and
methodology is described in the research protocol on the NISPAcee
website. Contributions from both
CEE and western countries are welcome, especially from those who have not had
any previous contact with the WG.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30 Session 1: Theory and
methodology of analysis
Chair B. Guy Peters
Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Paper: Theoretical approaches to the analysis of state society relations
in the policy process
Francisco Cardona, SIGMA, Paris, France
Paper: The delegation of administrative decision-making powers: A
tool for better public performance
L. Johannsen, O. Norgaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Paper: Policy-making in Central and Eastern Europe: A cross-sectional sector
perspective
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 2: Roles and networks in administrative
policymaking and
reforms.
Chair G. Sootla
Georg Sootla, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia
Paper: Theories of governance reforms: actors vs. processes
Markku Temmes, Helsinki University, Finland
Paper: The Governance Discourse in three Countries. A Comparison of Administrative Reform Activities in Finland, Estonia and Russia
Diederik Vancoppenolle, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Paper: Civil servants in Belgian policy-making processes: Implications of
governance processes on their tasks and competences. A comparative
multiple-case study.
11.00 - 12.30 Session 3: Networks and decision arenas in reforming policy sectors Chairs: B. Connaughton, O. Norgaard
Ole Norgaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Paper: Reforms of the telecom sector in the Czech Republic
Bernadette
Connaughton, University of Limerick,
Ireland
Topic:
Implementation of waste management
policy in Ireland. An analysis of the key stakeholders and the development
of networks in the Midwest region.
Kaarel Haav, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia
Paper: Estonian Education Forum: main stakeholders and models of decision-making
Erik Sootla, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia
Paper: Mapping the policy network in the Estonian forestry sector during the
elaboration and implementation of the National Forestry policy program.
14.00 - 15.00
Session 4: Constituents
and networks in the policy process at local level Chair A. Rosenbaum
Allan Rosenbaum, Florida International University, USA
Natalya Kolishinichenko, National Academy of PA, Odessa, Ukraine
Paper: Urban development and central – local governance relationships in three
Ukrainian cities: Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev and Odessa
Tatiana Majcherkiewicz, Mining and Metallurgy University, Cracow, Poland
Paper: Challenges of coalition building in Poland: experiences of central and
regional politics
Valeriu Mosneaga, State University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Paper:
The territorial - administrative reform
in Moldova: How different political interests and groups influences public policies
Anna Volkova, Saint-Petersburg State University,
Russian Federation
Topic:
Government in Moscow and St.-Petersburg:
Two Models and Two Ways
Gabriele
Burbulyte, Klaipeda University, Lithuania
Paper: Leadership
an exogenous factor in developing centre-periphery relations
Saturday, May
15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 5: Changes of decision
arenas and policy networks after EU
accession Chair: D. Fuller
Donald Fuller, Comenius University,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Paper: Impact of EU agricultural deliberations upon Slovakian
agriculture
Mihaela
Carausan, National School of Political Studies and PA, Bucharest, Romania
Paper: Administrative reform and capacity to govern in the EU
context
Conclusions
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
II. Working Group on
Public Sector Quality
WG Programme
Coordinators:
Leslie Eliason, Graduate School of International Policy Studies, Monterey
Institute of International Studies, USA – in memoriam
Katarina Staronova, Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia
William
Dunn, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and
Graduate Center for Public
Policy and Management, Skopje, Macedonia
Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Theme
2004: “Public sector quality in policy making:
quality of policy analysis, research, expertise, and citizen consultation in
decision-making and implementation.”
Establishing principles, institutions and procedures of good governance is one of the greatest challenges facing both western democracies as well as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (“CEE”). This challenge includes the development of professional policy making. The concept of ‘good governance’ – not readily translatable to most of the languages in the CEE region – has become increasingly associated with the capacity to develop and deliver public policies based on participatory principles as well as respecting the principles of effectiveness and efficiency. In other words, professional and high quality public policy making is transparent and open to broad societal participation but, at the same time, addresses societal problems timely and with a minimum waste of available resources.
In most
countries in Europe, there is not a coherent modernising agenda in relation to
quality policy making and policy capacity development – indeed, sometimes there
is not even an explicit modernising agenda at all. However, a number of themes
can be identified, each of which is important in a number of European
countries.
Therefore, the NISPAcee Working Group on Public Sector Quality has chosen
“Public Sector Quality in Policy Making” as the overall theme for its fifth meeting at the 12th NISPAcee Conference.
In particular, we will look at:
· International Actors and Cross-National Comparisons in policy making (first session)
· Engaging Citizens and Communities into Policy Making (second session)
· Knowledge Based Policy Making (third session)
· Learning lessons from the case studies (fourth session)
· Ensuring Quality of Expertise in Policy Process (fifth session)
Papers presented in individual sessions present single case studies or comparative, policy-relevant empirical research on how to improve quality of policy making in the good governance perspective in the western democracies, CEE and the NIS. This includes studies that identify significant obstacles to effective policy-making; factors that may help or hinder the development and implementation of effective policies at the national, regional or local level; or the contingent conditions that encourage or hinder effective policy implementation. Each session is to be followed by a plenary discussion.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30 Introduction by Katarina Staronova
Session 1: International
actors and cross-national comparisons
Iwona Sobis, Michiel de Vries, University
of Skovdisk, University of Nijmegen, The
Netherlands
Paper: The role of outside experts in local government in transitional countries
Giorgi Rusiashvili, Orbeliani Tbilisi State Pedagogical University,
Georgia
Paper: Public sector quality as problem faced in the states outside the enlarged
European Union
Discussant: Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University,
Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Plenary discussion moderated by William Dunn
Friday, May 14, 2004
09.00 – 10.30 Session 2: Engaging citizens and communities into policy making
Casandra Bischoff, Development Alternatives, Bucharest branch, Romania
Paper: Is there a role for the community when the
mine closes down? The case of Jiu Valley
Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Paper: Government serving citizens and
businesses: Local government
responsiveness in Russia
Reiner Buchegger,
Anita Buchegger-Traxler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Paper: Local/Regional labour market governance and territorial employment pacts
Discussant: Milena Minkova,
University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Plenary
discussion moderated by Katarina Staronova
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3: Knowledge based policy making
Yaman
Akdeniz, Turkey
(University of Leeds, UK)
Paper: Internet governance: Towards the
modernization of policy making process in Turkey
Aare Kasemets, University of
Tartu, Estonia
Ilona Obrsalova, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Paper: Impact assessment – an analytical tool for policy making: The case of environment policy
Discussant: Casandra Bischoff, Development Alternatives, Bucharest branch, Romania
Plenary discussion moderated by William Dunn
14:00 - 15:00
Session 4: Learning lessons from
the case studies
Margareta Bacova & Ardith Maney, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Silvana Braculla, The Urban Institute, Albania
Paper: Tirana Municipality Information centre - an initiative to promote citizens engagement
and transparency
Claudia
Novac, Centre
for Rural Assistance, Romania
Paper: Linking citizens and administrations – local
development agents in Romania, Timis County
Discussant: Sergei Pushkarev, Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Plenary discussion moderated by William Dunn
Saturday, May 15, 2004
09.00-10.30 Session
5: Ensuring quality of expertise in policy
process
Milena Minkova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Paper: Improving the public policy
making process in Bulgaria by introducing quality management systems in units
of government at regional and local levels - a need or an opportunity
Kaido Paabusk, Kristiina Tonnisson, Centre for Public Service Training and Development and University of Tartu, Estonia
Paper: Securing common knowledge and values in decentralized public service training system: The case of Estonia
Zdravko Pecar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Slovenia
Paper: Standards facilitate better
public policy management
Discussant: Magdalena Bacova, Slovakia (Iowa State
University, Ames, USA)
Plenary discussion moderated by Katarina
Staronova
Conclusions and plan of the WG for
future
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
III. Working Group on Strategic Leadership in Central Government
WG Programme Coordinators:
Martin Brusis, Center for Applied Policy Research, Germany
Radoslaw Zubek, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The aim of the working group is to investigate the
institutional underpinnings of strategic leadership in central government. The
working group provides a forum for scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas
and experience with strategic decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe.
Key themes of the meeting are the development of strategic capacities at the
centre of government and the impact of core executive institutions on
policy-making.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30
Session 1: Building strategic capacities at the centre of government
Brief introduction by Brusis / Zubek
László Vass, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration, Hungary
Paper: The case of STRATEK:
Development of an organizational unit at the Prime Minister’s Office in Hungary
for enhancing strategic leadership
Irena Jackiewicz, Centre for Strategic Studies, Government of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
Paper:
Strategic capacities at the Centre of Government. Institutional changes and dilemmas.
The case of Poland 1995-2003
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 - 10.30
Session 2: Building strategic capacities – sectoral perspectives I
Karen Närep, Estonian Ministry of Finance, Tallinn, Estonia
Paper: The introduction of strategic
planning in Estonian public administration – building
up the system
Anika Velthut, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia
Paper: Environmental strategy and the capacity to govern:
the case of Estonia
Mina Shoylekova, Centre for Policy Modernization, Sofia, Bulgaria
Sorin Ionita, Romanian Academic Society, Bucharest, Romania
11.00 - 12.30 Session 3: Building strategic capacities – sectoral perspectives II
Polya Katsamunska, University of National and World Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria
Pavel Pavlov, Varna Free University, Bulgaria
Paper: The relation of leadership
and public management in central government:
György Hajnal, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration, Hungary
Paper:
Strategic orientation in Hungarian central government organisations: The role
of organisational culture
14.00 - 15.00 Session 4: EU accession, executive configurations
and policy change
Andreas Bagenholm, Göteborg University, Sweden
Paper: Getting ready
for EU-membership. An analysis of governmental capacity in preparing and passing
EU-related legislation in Lithuania and Romania
Martin Brusis, Centre for Applied Policy
Research, Munich, Germany
Paper: Governance indicators
and executive configurations in Central and Eastern Europe
Klaudijus Maniokas, University
of Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: Linking co-ordination
of European affairs and European policy: Lithuania and other new member states
in the decision-making process of the EU
09.00 - 10.30 Session
5: EU accession,
executive configurations and institutional changes
Oleh Protsyk, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany
Paper: Ministerial structure of Cabinets
in Eastern and Central Europe: Does a country’s
EU accession status matter?
Radoslaw Zubek, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Paper: Europeanizing the centre in Poland:
How Europe affects the institutional
underpinnings of ministerial responsiveness
in the Polish Cabinet
Gaby Umbach, Universitat zu Koln, Germany
Paper: Post-communist
state administrations under the pressures of Europeanization: Stages
– National Differentiation - Scenarios
Conclusions; Completing of the WG report for the closing plenary session
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
IV. Working Group on Democratic Governance of Multiethnic
Communities
WG Programme Coordinators:
Petra
Kovacs, LGI/OSI,
Budapest, Hungary
Jana
Krimpe, Tallinn
University of Educational Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Michael
Brintnall, American
Political Science Association, Washington D.C., USA
Theme 2004:
“Diversity and public services:
Introducing new standards of diversity
management in changing Europe“
Our working group is addressing three broad themes in its panels, all central to improving the management of public services in meet the special demands of governance in multiethnic democracies. One panel of papers focuses on the institutional arrangements for developing, administering, and assessing policies about diversity. A second looks at specific strategies for performance measurement, monitoring, and evaluation of social policy, with a particular focus on the Roma community in 4 countries. And the third addresses the preparation of public officials to perform well in meeting the needs of diverse communities. The working group will conclude with development of an active agenda for future activities.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30 Session 1: Introduction, review of past Working Group activities, and discussion of themes and objectives of Working Group
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
2: Assessing institutional responses to challenges of democratic governance of multiethnic
communities
Rustem Ablyatifov, State Committee of Ukraine for Nationalities and Migration , Kyiv, Ukraine
Paper: The resettlement, adaptation and integration
of formerly deported Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: evaluation of impact of
governmental programmes of 2002.
Andrey Makarychev, Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University, Russian Federation
Paper: Trans-regional cooperation in the areas of EU-Russia direct neighborhood: The changed roles of Europe's margins
11.00 - 12.30 Session 3: Monitoring, evaluating and measuring
performance of
policies that meet needs of ethnic minorities:
Eva Haviarova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Paper:
The requirement of authentic demographic and socioeconomic data about
Roma in Slovakia and their use in decision making process by public
administration at different levels
Ekaterina Marinova, CARE Bulgaria Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
Paper: From social assistance to social employment: New trends in the application of the Bulgarian Social Assistance Act for low income families and social assistance users from Roma origin
14.00 - 15.00 Session 4: Recruiting and training public servants to be
responsive to challenges of multiethnic democracy
Victoria Antonova, Volga-region Academy for Civil Service, Saratov, Russian Federation
Paper: Multiculturalism in the Regional Civil
Service in Russia (the case of Saratov region)
Petra Kovacs, Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI), Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: Monitoring the impact of the Anti-Discrimination Training Program in Hungary
Gayane Selimyan, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Paper: Ethnic minorities in Public Administration
in Armenia: Distant utopia or a tangible future?
Karen West, Centre for Management and Policy Studies, UK Cabinet Office, Ascot, United Kingdom
Paper:
Round and round (and round...) the learning cycle - Experience of cross cultural
institutional development in the Balkans
Saturday, May 15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 5: Conclusions: Lessons from the Papers, Plans for Publications, and Procedures for communication after the Working Group
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
V. Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting
WG Programme
Coordinator:
Zeljko Sevic, The University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
The Group will focus on the local government capacity and ongoing experience with non-tax revenue sources such as user fees and charges, duties, etc. The individual country papers will provide a detailed account of the fiscal legislation and current practices in fixing, collecting and allocating non-tax revenue sources.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30 Session
1:
Zeljko Sevic, University of Greenwich,
United Kingdom
Introduction
David Amborski, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Paper:
Applications of municipal user charges in Canada: Experience and implications
for other justifications
Peter B.
Boorsma, Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands
Paper: Local taxes:
Why?, with special reference to the Netherlands
Jonathan
Watson, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United
Kingdom
Paper:
Maximising your assets: Moving from spending ministries to economic players
Verena Fritz,
GTZ, Frankfurt, Germany
Paper: Raising revenue in transition:
The development of tax policy and tax administration in Ukraine
Friday, May 14, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
2:
Phillip Bryson, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah, United States
Paper: Users fees and local finance in transition countries:
the Czech and Slovak cases
Lucie Sedmihradska, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Paper: Municipal budgetary process and decision
making on the revenue side of the budget
Piotr Bury, Swietokrzyska Academy,
Kielce, Poland
Paper: Charges in local government services and budgets in Poland
Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University, Poland
Paper: Fees and
charges in budgets of local governments in Poland: Regulations and practice
11.00 - 12.30 Session
3:
Mark Chandler, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia
Paper: User charges and fees: Financing local services – Do local
governments really cover the costs in Lithuania?
Kenneth Kriz, University of Nebraska, Omaha,
United States and Karsten Staehr, University of Tartu, Estonia
Paper: User charges and fees in theory and practice: the Estonian case
Stanislavs
Keiss, School of Business Administration Turiba,
Latvia and Zarina Vita, SSC Diplomatic Service Agency, Riga, Latvia
Paper: The influence of international accounting standards on the normative
regulation of the Latvian accounting system
Yulia Subbotovych, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko
University, Ukraine and Sergii Slukhai, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko
University, Ukraine
Paper: Utility pricing policy and local budgets in
Ukraine
14.00 - 15.00 Session 4:
David Tumanyan, Communities Finance Officers Association of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Paper: User charges and fees in Armenian local government system
Leonida Pliskevich, International
Institute for Social and Labour Relations, Belarus
Paper: Financial Local
Services, User Charges and Fees in the Republic of Belarus
Tatiana Danieliants, Inter-Tass Agency, Moscow,
Russian Federation and Yulia Potanina, Moscow State Lomonossov
University, Russian Federation
Paper: User charges: Case of Russia
Saturday, May 15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
5: Conclusions: Completing of the WG
report for the closing
plenary session; Plans for the next year
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
VI. Working Group on e-Government
WG Programme
Coordinators:
Yuri Misnikov, UNDP Slovakia
Mirko
Vintar,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Theme 2004: “Knowledge management and ICT for public
policy”
Applying ICT
based KM techniques in the policy formulation and implementation process can be
considered as a very effective tool for overcoming policy making problems as it
integrates knowledge handling, reduces the vagueness and fuzziness of the
policy making process, and creates a systemic framework for addressing
bottlenecks and inconsistencies. The papers selected for working group IV
address both national trends and global approaches to policy making through
knowledge management and ICT applications
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30
Session 1:
Panel 1: National and local strategies for knowledge management and ICT in government
Elizabeth Muller., SIGMA/OECD, Paris, France
Paper:
E-Government in OECD countries
Ivanna Atamanchuk, Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Kyiv, Ukraine
Paper: E-Government in Ukraine:
Achievements and challenges
Irina Merkuryeva, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Paper: Development of e-government in St.-Petersburg: Evaluation of government web site performance and usability
Yaroslav Mudryi, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom
Paper:
Introducing the concept of distance learning for public servants training in regional
institutes of National Academy of Public Administration in Ukraine
Friday, May 14,
2004
09.00 -
10.30 Session
2: Panel 1: National and local strategies for knowledge management and
ICT in government (continuation)
Antoni Sobolewski, Higher School of Public Administration, Szczecin, Poland
Paper: Polish
self-government on its way to the e-government
Dusan Soltes, Faculty of Management, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Paper: EU
Lisbon Strategy: e-Europe+ in Slovakia in the Context of the Future EU-25
Ovidiu Stoica, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Paper: Local
e-government developments in Romania. A survey
Ligita Zailskaite, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania
Paper: E-government
implementation in Lithuania
11.00 - 12.30 Session 3: Panel 2: ICT and public policies
Frances Chetwynd, Arlington, United States
Paper:
Openness and privacy concerns in e-government
Martin Gramatikov, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Paper:
Knowledge management strategies in the context of public-private partnerships
Agnieszka Pawlowska, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Paper: GIS as
a tool in local policy-making
Jiri Pribil / Jan Pavel, University of Economics, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic,
Leos Vitek, Ministry of Finance, Prague, Czech Republic
Paper: Tax administration and
e-government: Case of the Czech Republic
Kristina Reinsalu, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Paper: Knowledge management in local governments-the tool for building trust
Marcin Sakowicz, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Paper: Knowledge management in Polish local self-government
14.00 - 15.00
Session 4: Panel 2: ICT
and public policies (continuation)
Aleksandar Ugrinoski, Civil Servants Agency, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Paper: The central register of civil servants, e-data or e-knowledge
Razvan Viorescu, University "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava, Suceava, Romania
Paper: Preventing and fighting against cyber
crime – Romanian case
Marta Wielinska, Higher School of Public Administration, Szczecin, Poland
Paper: Education for the e-government – as a method to present the digital divide process on the example of the West Pomerania Voivodship in Poland
Jiri Krecan, Training Centre for Public Administration (FALA), Pardubice, Czech Republic
Paper: The Public Administration Portal of the Czech Republic in point of view of public servant
Saturday, May
15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 5: Discussion - Conclusions; (Completing of the WG report for the closing plenary session; Plans for the next year)
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups
WG Programme Coordinators:
Eugenijus
Chlivickas, Training
Center of the Ministry of Finance, Lithuania
President of
Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association
Borisas
Melnikas, Vilnius
Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Contemporary public administration is inherent of reforms, changes and innovations. Seeking solutions to the problems arising, most attention is paid to increasing state structures’ efficiency, stability of governance bodies and the professionalism and efficiency of civil servants’ training systems in state institutions in central and eastern European countries, inside as well as outside the European Union. The development of civil servants’ administration skills is one of the conditions for an increase in public service efficiency. The civil servants’ continuous training system, which consists of selection and recruitment of specialists, career planning, payment and promotion, introductory and continuous training, re-skilling and assessment of specialists, is closely related to the strengthening of administrative capacities and new quality creation according to the conditions of the EU.
The principal goals of the newly established working group is to research and identify new approaches towards capacity building of civil servants’ training systems according to EU requirements.
Thursday, May
13, 2004
16.00 - 17.30
Session 1:
Ivan Maly, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Paper:
Experiences from an
implementation of a new Civil Servants Training System in the Czech Republic -
country study
Razvan
Viorescu, University "Stefan cel Mare",
Suceava, Romania
Paper: The professionalizing of the civil service
according to public administration reform (Romanian case)
Friday, May 14, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session
2:
Lidia Goverdovskaja, International Market Institute, Samara, Russian Federation
Paper:
Development of the state and
municipal civil servants training and re-training system in the Oblast of
Samara (the Case of the Public and Municipal Service Department, International
Market Institute)
Mik Strmecki, Faculty of Administration, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Paper:
Civil servants training for EU
accession: The Slovenian experience
Yurii Polianskiy,
Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Kiev, Ukraine
Paper:
Adjusting MPA Programme
Standards to EU requirements: Ukraine case
Borisas Melnikas,
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Paper: Improvement
of the System of Public administration specialist training in countries of
Central and Eastern Europe: integrated and individualized university studies
and introduction of the lifelong learning principle in the environment of the
growing European Union
11.00 - 12.30
Session 3:
Eugenijus Chlivickas, Ricardas Malkevicius, Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper:
Capacity building of decentralized
training system in context of global transformations: Lithuanian experience
Beata Grebliauskiene, Customs Training Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: The system of Lithuanian customs officials
qualification improvement referring EU standards
Ona Grazina Rakauskiene, Seimas
of the Republic of Lithuania, Law University of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: State of the Art of Lithuanian macro economy and challenge
of increasing state revenue in to the context of capacity building of government
Antanas Seilius, Klaipeda University, Management Department, Lithuania
Paper:
Regional problems of personnel
development in public administration
institutions
Narimantas Paliulis, V. Elskyte, L. Šaulinskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Paper: Challenges of Information society in civil servants
training
14.00 - 15.00
Session 4:
Eugenijus Chlivickas, Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association, Lithuania
Paper:
Civil Service Training System:
Strategy of human resources development
Irena Alperyte, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Paper: Public administration improvement in Eastern and
Central Europe: Culture administrators training system according to EU requirements
Gediminas Dubauskas, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania, Vilnius,
Lithuania
Paper: Studies and training programs on management of public
finance in Lithuania's defence sector
Zenonas
Streikus, Training centre “Dainava” for
Civil Servants and Local Administration, Druskininkai, Lithuania
Paper: Training system oriented for
„the first line“ civil servants
Rasa
Smaliukiene, General Jonas Žemaitis Military
Academy of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: Leaders for public administration: civil servants’
education system in Lithuania
Alvydas Raipa, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of
Social Sciences, Department of Public Administration, Vilnius, Lithuania
Paper: Effective civil servants trainings as a component of
better implementation public management innovations
Saturday, May
15, 2004
09.00 - 10.30 Session 5:
Conclusions
11.00 - 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Sessions/Groups