Project:     Capacity Building of NAPA for Open Local Governance
Activity:     Interactive Training Seminar for NAPA Trainers/Lecturers

                 (6 x 1-day seminars – a different, newly developed teaching module presented every day)
Date:         November 7 - 12, 2016
Venue:       National Academy of Public Administration, ulitsa Eugene Pottier, 20, Kyiv, Ukraine
Language:  English

 

NISPAcee Resource Team:
Juraj Nemec
Daniel Klimovský
Tomáš Jacko
Elena Žáková

NAPA Resource Team:
Volodymyr Vakulenko
Nataliia Grynchuk
Hryhorii Borshch

Selection criteria for participants:
-    Work at NAPA.
-    Relevant practice as trainer / lecturer.
-    Duration of practice. 
-    English language advantage.

Purpose:
-    Familiarisation with newly developed teaching modules and materials with the aim to include them in the existing NAPA teaching materials and modules and to run them for NAPA students and lecturers.
-    Commenting on developed modules and materials.

Outputs:
-    Ability to lead future trainings on selected teaching modules on open governance for NAPA students.
-    Commenting on teaching modules and materials.
-    Proposals of case studies.

Methodology:
-    Presentations: the authors of the module will present the topic and its relevance generally and specifically under Ukrainian conditions.
-    Discussions: after the presentation of the topic and its relevance, all participants discuss the proposed contents of the module.
-    Case studies method: in the second part, the whole group will split into smaller working groups and work with cases studies from Slovakia: group work.
-    Commenting: representatives of all groups comment on the purposefulness and usefulness of proposed cases.
 
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Teaching module:     Efficiency in Local Service Delivery
Day:                        Monday / November 7, 2016

 

 

Purpose: To provide systematic knowledge about the ways in which local governments should decide on the most important aspects of local public services delivery, with the focus on deciding how to produce local services.

Outputs:

- Understanding of the essence of the concepts of local public service delivery.
- Awareness of the scope of local public services in Ukraine and rules for their delivery.
- Awareness regarding the core necessary municipal decisions regarding local public service delivery.
- Awareness of the main principles of deciding between in-house and external supplying of local public services.
- Ability to evaluate concrete local approaches and solutions.

 

Programme:
Welcome
Introduction of the project, aims of the workshop, expected outcomes
Introduction of the responsible experts and participants  
Introduction to the module
Local service delivery in Slovakia
Local service delivery in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Delivery of local services – theory.
-    Efficiency in local service delivery (economy, efficiency and effectiveness + quality).
-    Measuring efficiency in local service delivery – cost minimisation, multi-criteria evaluations, Data Envelopment Analysis.
-    Public – private – civil sector mix in production of local public services.
-    Pros and cons of all forms of externalisation of production of services, how to decide.
-    Factors determining final efficiency of local public services.
-    Principal-Agent Theory and Contracting.
-    Transaction Costs and Contracting.
-    Contracting Out in Transitional Countries.
-    In-house versus external supply.
-    Model of decision-making process.
-    Possible ways of evaluation of local public service delivery.
-    Co-creation and co-production of local public services.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion about Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion on the module, conclusions

 

 

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Teaching module:     Transparency, Openness, Intelligibility
Day:                        Tuesday / November 8, 2016

Purpose: To provide knowledge about the key concepts of transparency, openness and intelligibility. The module focuses on designing new transparency, control and accountability arrangements and identifying their weaknesses and strengths.

Outputs:
-    Understanding of the difficulty and importance of defining transparency, openness, intelligibility, accountability and corruption.
-    Awareness of the ways in which to measure transparency, openness, intelligibility and corruption.
-    Understanding of the causes and impact of lack of transparency, openness, intelligibility.
-    Ability to fight corruption through increase of transparency, openness and intelligibility.
-    Knowledge of anti-corruption local reforms - from Slovakia and abroad.

 

 

Programme:
Welcome
Introduction to the module
Transparency, openness, intelligibility in Slovakia
Transparency, openness, intelligibility in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Defining key concepts: transparency, openness, intelligibility, accountability and corruption.
-    Measuring transparency, openness, intelligibility and corruption.
-    The causes and impact of corruption.
-    How to increase transparency, openness, intelligibility and how to fight corruption.
-    Decentralisation and the risks of corruption, corruption sensitive areas and the possibilities of their analysis: public procurement, grants, human resources, municipal enterprises.
-    Anti-corruption local reforms. Experience from Slovakia and abroad, conditions for success.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion about Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion on the module, conclusions

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Teaching module:     Performance Budgeting
Day:                        Wednesday / November 9, 2016

Purpose: To provide systematic knowledge and to train skills about how to formulate (programme) performance budget for a public body.

 

 

Outputs:

- Understanding of the essence of concepts of (programme) performance budgeting.
- Awareness about pros and cons of (programme) performance budgeting, including existing experience from the CEE region.
- Awareness of actual Ukrainian legislation on the topic.
- Ability to propose programmes, targets and indicators for (programme) performance budgets for public bodies.

 

 

Programme:
Welcome 
Introduction to the module
Performance budgeting in Slovakia
Performance budgeting in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Performance budgeting versus (programme) performance financing and their systemic problems.
-    Distinction between programme performance budgeting as the method for preparing budgets and performance financing as the tool to allocate public resources.
-    Pros and cons of programme performance budgeting (plus existing experience, current approaches and purposes for its failure in our region).
-    International experience with performance budgeting.
-    Implementing (programme) performance budgeting.
-    Programmes/activities/Inputs, outputs, outcomes/Goals, indicators and targets
-    Methodology of proposing and measuring targets and indicators.
-    Possible "extras”: Pros and cons of performance financing of public organisations – with the focus on the pervasive effects of wrongly implemented schemes. Pros and cons of performance payments of employees of public organisations.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion on Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion on the module, conclusions

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Teaching module:     Citizen Engagement
Day:                        Thursday / November 10, 2016

Purpose: To provide relevant knowledge with regard to the inclusion and participation of citizens in policy making and to train skills relating to these tools, which bring about opportunities for more collaborative and open governance.

Outputs:
-    Ability to evaluate concrete local approaches and solutions. Understand both the importance of public/citizen participation and engagement in policy making processes.
-    Awareness of the pros´ and cons´ of inclusion and participation/engagement of citizens within the relevant stages of policy cycles.
-    Familiarity with the present relevant Ukrainian and Slovak legislation, as well as European recommendations.
-    Readiness to propose participatory tools for more efficient or higher public/citizen participation/engagement.

 

 

Programme:
Welcome
Introduction to the module
Citizen engagement in Slovakia
Citizen engagement in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Citizen engagement, its pros´ and cons´.
-    Legal provisions with regard to citizen engagement in the Ukraine and Slovakia.
-    Comparison and discussion on legal provisions.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion on Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion on the module, conclusions

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Teaching module:     Identification of Local Leaders / Local Leadership
Day:                        Friday / November 11, 2016

Purpose: To provide knowledge about what local leadership is and to set out key prerequisites for good local leaders who pursue both democracy and efficiency at the same time.

 

 

Outputs:
-    Understanding of the theoretical approaches to leadership and leadership theories.
-    Awareness of the nature of managerial work and role.
-    Knowledge of charismatic leadership and both the opportunities and threats associated with it.
-    Understanding of other relevant concepts: leadership and organisational culture, cultural development, and leaders vs. managers in public organisations.

Programme:
Welcome
Introduction to the module
Identification of local leadership in Slovakia
Identification of local leadership in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Leadership Theories in Management and Organisational Behaviour.
-    The Nature of Managerial Work and Role.
-    Charismatic Leadership: opportunities and threats.
-    Leadership and Organisational Culture.
-    Leading Cultural Development.
-    Leaders and Managers in Public Organisations.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion on Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion on the module, conclusions

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Teaching module:     Participatory Budgeting
Day:                        Saturday / November 12, 2016

Purpose: To provide the relevant knowledge with regard to participatory budgeting and to train the skills necessary for dealing with participatory budgeting.

 

 

Outputs:
- Understanding of the background of participatory budgeting.
- Awareness of the pros´ and cons´ of participatory budgeting.
- Familiarity with the present relevant Ukrainian and foreign experience.
- Capacity and readiness to propose the relevant tools for the implementation of participatory budgeting.

 

Programme:
Welcome 
Introduction to the module
Participatory budgeting in Slovakia
Participatory budgeting in Ukraine
Presentation of the module. Main topics:
-    Participatory budgeting, its pros´ and cons´.
-    How to use the matrix of threats/risks.
-    Elaboration of the matrix of threats/risks with regard to participatory budgeting.
Working with Slovak case studies: Group work
Sharing experience with case studies
Discussion about Ukrainian case studies
Final discussion about the module, conclusions