Panel
Policy Planning and Coordination
The panel's primary focus is on practices of how policy planning and coordination are organised in NISPAcee countries and the main implications, challenges, and opportunities. In addition, the panel will aim to understand the role of policy planning and coordination in post-conflict countries and how relevant they may be in post-conflict societies.
Important information
From participants of this working group full paper is required before the conference.
10/04/2023
Deadline of presenters registration (obligatory for all Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
* 05/05/2024 - Late registration (available for all participants without: Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
10/05/2024
Deadline of full paper submission
Register for 32nd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2024
Call for papers
The 2024 panel aims to discuss and review the Policy Planning and Coordination (PDC) Systems practices as a horizontal pillar of good public administration, especially in post-conflict countries. The panel's primary focus is on practices of how policy planning and coordination are organised in NISPAcee countries and the main implications, challenges, and opportunities. In addition, the panel will aim to understand the role of policy planning and coordination in post-conflict countries and how relevant they may be in post-conflict societies. Beyond that, the panel will also concentrate on institutional, procedural, technical, and capacity-related issues in policy planning and coordination regarding methodologies for situation analysis, results-oriented thinking, data generation and analysis, impact assessments, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), standardised reporting, and the like.
The idea of European Administrative Space (EAS) essentially stands on the European Principles of Public Administration. Policy Development and Coordination are one of the six pillars of these principles. The European Union sees the degree of their application in practice as an indication of the capacity of the national public administration of a candidate country to implement the acquis effectively. The panel desires to bring academicians and practitioners together to discuss the main patterns, challenges, and achievements in terms of the national PDC process as well as in terms of the EU integration process for some NISPAcee countries and beyond.
In the framework of the NISPAcee Annual Conference, this will be the third consecutive year the panel will be conducted. This year’s panel calls for theoretical papers as well as papers describing practical experiences on the application of horizontal policy development and coordination practices in the national public administration system, preferably in post-conflict countries, covering, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Exploration of the degree of centralisation and standardisation of the Policy Planning and Coordination systems and their advantages and disadvantages.
- Relevance of the policy and strategic planning in the post-conflict societies.
- Challenges and best practices of regulating and standardising governments’ policy planning, monitoring, and evaluation systems.
- Experience in coordination and hierarchy of a central, sectoral, and institutional policy planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
Potential or Invited participants:
Potential or Invited participants:
Scholars in Public Administration, Practitioners in National Public Administrations, International Consultants in Good Governance, and International Organisations promoting European Principles of Public Administration and Good Governance.
Expected Results:
Conference papers and journal publications; Increased peer exchange among practitioners and academics of the NISPAcee countries and beyond; Topic sensitised for further academic research; Increased knowledge of the PDC as such; and Enhanced Network.
Chairs
Giorgi Bobghiashvili
Caucasus School of Governance, Caucasus University; Tbilisi, Georgia
gbobghiashvili@cu.edu.ge
Giorgi Bobghiashvili is a Visiting Lecturer at Caucasus School of Governance, Caucasus University. Mr. Bobghiashvili has been a career public servant and worked as a Head of Policy Planning Service in the Prime Minister’s Office of Georgia.
He has led the Policy Development and Coordination Reform and under his tenure the service, in cooperation with partner organisations, embedded regulations and methodological guidelines that have resulted in the establishment of a new government-wide policy planning, monitoring and evaluation system.
Mr. Bobghiashvili has provided analysis to four prime ministers and advised line ministries on more than 20 sector policy documents. He is a John Smith Trust Fellow and his academic activities and interests include good governance, European principles of public administration, public service design and delivery and innovations in public sector.
Ivan Kopric
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
ikopric@pravo.hr
Ivan Kopric is a Tenured Professor of Administrative Science and Local Governance, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, and president of the Institute of Public Administration, Croatia. He is currently leading a project team of the University of Zagreb in charge of co-creating new European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC, https://unic.eu/en).
He received the Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration by the Network of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe in 2016.
He is the author and editor of more than 30 books with the most recent Referendum and Direct Democracy in Croatia (2021), Migrations, Diversity, Integration, and Public Governance in Europe and Beyond (2019), Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe (2018), and Europeanisation of the Croatian Local Self-Government (2018).
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