The 10th
NISPAcee Annual Conference:
DELIVERING
PUBLIC SERVICES IN CEE countries:
Organized in cooperation with the:
Polish Association for Public Administration Education
(SEAP), Bialystok and
Malopolska Institute of
Local Government and Administration (MISTIA), Cracow
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CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Pre-conference meetings:
14.00 - 19.00 NISPAcee Steering Committee meeting
20.00 - 21.00 Meeting of the representatives of NISPAcee SC and the conference coordinators
15.00 - 19.00 Joint NISPAcee /NASPAA project Advisory and Selection Committee meeting
10.00- 18.00 Meeting of the Working Group on Democratic Governance of Multiethnic Communities
17.00 – 21.00 Registration of participants
Thursday, April 25, 2002
7.30 - 9.00 Registration of participants
9.00 - 9.45 Plenary
Session
Official
opening (Greetings and Welcome)
Chair: Martin
Potůček, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic,NISPAcee President
Kryzstof Janik, Minister of Public Administration and Internal Affairs
Michal
Kulesza, SEAP President, Poland
Krzysztof Lipski,
Director of MISTIA, Poland
Guido Bertucci, Director,
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,(UN DESA),
New York, USA
Francisco Cardona,
SIGMA/OECD
Alexander Seger,
Council of Europe
9.45 – 10.45 Polish Panel
Chair:
Jerzy Regulski,
President, Foundation in Support of Local Democracy
Krzysztof Janik,
Minister of Public Administration and Internal Affairs
Maria
Gintowt-Jankowicz, Director of National
School of Public Administration
Jan Pastwa,
Chief of the Civil Service Office
Jan Maria Rokita, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Club ‘Platforma Obywatelska’
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45 Ceremony of Alena Brunovska Award
for Teaching Excellence in PA
Presentation of the award to the recipient: Michal Kulesza, SEAP
President, Poland:
„Public administration and post-communist society“
11.45 - 12.30 Keynote presentations
Introduction to the conference
theme by the general rapporteur Jak
Jabes, Asian Development Bank (ADB),
Manila, Philippines
Geert Bouckaert,
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium:“Renewing public leadership:
the context for service
delivery reform“
Marek Debicki,
University of Manitoba, Canada:“Delivery of public services with social
responsibility“
12.30 - 13.00 Call for participation in the
projects and WGs; organizational announcements
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Working sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of Working groups
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30 Working sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of Working groups
18:00 – 19:30 New
Projects/Initiatives:
·
Anti-corruption session ,Chairs:
Alexander Seger, Council of Europe, Barbara Kudrycka, WSAP, Bialystok,
Poland
Presentation of the
Anti-corruption WG mission, discussion of objectives, outputs and participation in the WG, plans
for implementation of the programme
· East-West cooperation, Chair: György Jenei, Budapest University of Economic sciences and Public Administration, Hungary
György Jenei: East-West cooperation in public administration: a framework for assessment.
Tony Bovaird: Models of knowledge transfer in East-West collaboration: organisational co-learning or ships that pass in the night?
Geert Bouckaert: Administrative convergence in the EU: some conclusions for CEECs
Juraj Nemec: The case of Public Administration and Management Education in the Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Slovakia
Calin Hintea: East-West cooperation models. An analysis of the
„Babes- Bolyai“ University PA program
· NASPAA/NISPAcee projects, information on the designated applied policy research projects and technical assistance:
Chair:
László Váradi, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary
I : „Improvement of Regional Policy for Development of Institutional Infrastructure & Investment in a Friendly Business Environment“,
Alexander Kovryga, Kharkiv‘s
State Academy of Municipal Economy, Ukraine; Sherman Wyman, Trish Nickel, Todd
Carlson, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington,
USA
II:
„Research on Best Practices in Transforming Managers into Leaders“
Maria Bordas, University of Economic Sciences
and Public Administration,
Budapest,
Hungary
Robert Kramer, American
University, School of Public Affairs, Washington DC,
USA
László Vass, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary
III. „TA – Summer Institute on Public Management Reform“
Georg Sootla, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia
·
UNDESA/IASIA initiative on improving
standards in PA education and training
Guido Bertucci, Director,
UNDESA
Allan Rosenbaum, President,
IASIA
Attendees at the conference are invited
to participate in a special
session held for the purpose of
discussing and obtaining feedback
on a major new three-year initiative to
support the strengthening
of public administration education
throughout the world that is to be
jointly undertaken by the Division for
Public Economics and Public
Administration of the United Nations and
the International Association of
Schools and Institutes of Administration
(IASIA). It is anticipated
that during its second and third years,
this initiative will include
technical assistance to public
administration education and training
institutions. The goal is to strengthen institutional
capacity and, in
so doing, have a long-term impact on the
development of effective and
transparent governance throughout the
world. This session will provide
an important opportunity for NISPAcee
conference participants both to
share ideas on this initiative and to
obtain insights from those
involved in public administration
education and training.
20.0 Reception hosted by the Minister of Public Administration and Internal Affairs
Krysztof Janik
Friday, April 26, 2002
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 - 15.30 Working sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of Working groups
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 17.15 Working sessions on the main conference themes
Meetings of Working groups
17.30 – 19.00
NISPAcee Business Meeting
Opening
Annual Report of
activities
Financial report
Future Plans
United Nations
PA Network (UN PAN) presented by Haiyan Qian
Others
Discussions
Representatives of the NISPAcee Member Institutions are expected to participate in the
Business Meeting. All other participants are invited and welcome to join
the meeting.
20.00 Dinner hosted by MISTIA
Saturday, April 27, 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Meetings of Working groups
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 - 13.00 Closing
Plenary Session
Chaired by
Barbara Kudrycka, WSAP, Bialystok, Poland
Reports of the coordinators of the Working Session/Groups
Conference conclusions by the
general rapporteur Jak Jabes, Asian
Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
15.30 Walking guided tour through the old city (2 hours)- organized by the POINT Travel
Agency
Co-ordinators:
Tamas Horvath, Hungarian Institute of Public Administration,
Budapest, Hungary
Marek Debicki, University of Manitoba, Canada
New methods
of public service delivery emerged in developed countries from the beginning of
the 1980s. As a reaction to the overspending of the former welfare state,
outside sources were found for managing and financing different public
functions. The policy orienting on rationalization of the public sector focuses
on restriction and shifts at the same time. Involvement of the private sector
increased in the provision of public services. Market and voluntary sectors
took over many of the functions and managing became the government’s only role.
The State at local level gives incentives in order to develop forms of
alternative service delivery. Reinventing regionalism supports new linkages in
certain areas thereby bypassing the national government level. Service
provision, rather than bureaucratic administration, is preferred.
The initial
motivation to renew public functions is linked to system transformation as a
whole in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A market economy emerged
in the 1990’s after the communist regimes. Public functions had to be revised.
Privatization happened in both the economy and the formerly incrementally large
scale of public services. The remaining public functions were also transformed.
Transforming public management to ‘New Public Management’ is not easy in these
circumstances, because system transformation has to happen simultaneously. The
private and non-profit sector is not sufficiently developed and the State tries
to monopolize public roles completely. New challenges are confused with
conflicts of the system transformation in this region. The main conference
theme is devoted to discussing these issues of the establishment of alternative
service delivery.
Thursday April 25 2002
14.00 - 15.30 Session 1: Challenges (Theoretical aspects of
transformation)
·
theories
·
new
tendencies
·
the
effects of European models
·
EU
requirements
Presentations:
Katrin
Nyman-Metcalf, Human Dynamics, Wien, Austria
Topic: Access to public services – European experiences to share
Péter
Szegvári,
Prime Minister’s Office, Budapest, Hungary
Topic: The Hungarian municipal guarantee system
Liudas Mazylis, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Topic: Prevention of growing
socio-cultural disparities in three different regions of Lithuania
16.00 - 17.30 Presentations:
Ilona
Pálné Kovács, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pecs, Hungary,
Topic: The challenges of regional
development in public administration
Krzysztof
Szczerski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Topic: Social economy-delivering public services in co-operation between public administration
and
non-governemental actors
Raymond
Saner, Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development(CSEND), Geneva,
Switzerland
Topic: Quality Assurance as a Consensus
Building Vehicle to improve relations between
government administration, parliament, and the public at large
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session
2: Conflicts of adaptation
·
economic
environment
·
low
effectiveness
·
corruption
Presentations:
Alexander Kovryga, Kharkiv State Academy of
Municipal Economy, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Topic:What local government can really do to improve institutional infrastructure & build
investment friendly
environment: the case of the Kharkiv region, Ukraine
Leoš
Vítek, University of Economics, Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic
Topic: Evaluation of the effectiveness of tax collection: the case of the Czech central
and local governments
Marianna Tomova, University of National and World Economy, Sofia,
Bulgaria
Topic:Cost efficiency in Bulgarian Municipalities
11.00 - 12.30 Presentations:
Roswitha
M. King, Eurofaculty/University of Latvia
Topic: What kind of civil service: Responses from civil servants and politicians in
Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Poland
Janis
Folkmanis, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia
Topic: Public governance and the citizen; a review of the European Union‘s white paper on
governance with a view to its
applicability in EU candidate states
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3: Experiments
·
programs
·
surveys
Presentations:
William
Sommers, USAID Contract Development Alternatives, INC., USA/Bosnia-Herzegovina
Topic:
„Brcko:Experiment & Experience“
Daniel
Serban, Research Triangle Institute, Romania
Topic: Community involvement in
public service delivery – a challenge for both local authorities and citizens:
the Romanian experience
Alfred
Ho, Paul Coates, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA
Topic: Citizen-based performance
measurement: the Iowa experience
Liudas Mazylis, Vytautas Magnus University,
Kaunas, Lithuania
Topic: Prevention of growing
socio-cultural disparities in three different regions of Lithuania
16.00 - 17.15 Presentations:
Inessa
Frolova, Yulia Potanina, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Topic: Application of computer technology EDIFAR for the development of local social policies
for the elderly
David
Amborski, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tom Monastyrski,
International Centre for Policy Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine
Topic: Development of policy capacity in Ukrainian local governments
Saturday
April 27 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Conclusions of the Cracow sessions of the NISPAcee Working
Group
11.00 – 13.00 Closing
Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group
I. Working
Group on Politico-Administrative Relations
Co-ordinators:
Tony Verheijen, UNDP, Bratislava, Slovak
Republic
Alexandra Rabrenovic, University of
Belgrade, Yugoslavia/University of Glasgow, UK
Laszlo
Vass, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary
The aim of the WG is to focus on the development of further areas of study on politico-administrative relations, which have emerged from the initial stage of the research work:
1. Politico-administrative relations under coalition politics. The coalition form of Government is very common in CEE countries. Most of the countries have already experienced that not only the change of the government results in the break of the administrative development, but that the changes within
the coalition also involve serious consequences on the administration. The objective of the WG is to compile coalition statistics of the CEEC countries, analyse the form and operation of coalition governments and investigate the structural and functional effects of the coalition politics on the governance and public administration.
2. Role perceptions of senior officials. Senior officials at both local and central government level have a dual role: political and managerial. The objective of the WG is to gain comparative insights into the self-perception of senior officials in Post-Communist states and the implication for the dual role that they play in the policy process.
A separate study related to the central government level has been designed and should commence in early 2002. A discussion on approach and methodology will be held at the conference.
Thursday April 25 2002
14.00 - 15.30 Session 1: Evaluation of the work of the last year, report on the multi-country initiative on
role perceptions
Debate on role perceptions led by Prof Guy Peters
16.00 - 17.30 Presentations:
Maria Bordas, University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Budapest,
Hungary
Topic: Leadership development in a post-communist country: the
Hungarian case
Robert Kramer, American University, School of Public Affairs, Washington DC, USA
Topic: Beyond Max Weber: Emotional intelligence and public leadership
Iveta
Reinholde, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Topic: Role perceptions of senior
officials in Latvia
Maciej Bartkowski, Poland
Topic:Image IV Institutionalized
in a Leadership Structure of International Administration
Administrative and Political Roles
of Directorship General of the International Labor Organization.
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 2: Discussion of papers on politico-administrative relations under
coalition politics led by Lazslo Vass
11.00 -12.30 Continuation of the session: Discussion of the hypothesis and case studies
14.00 -15.30 Continuation of the session: Discussion of the hypothesis and case studies
16.00 - 17.15 Discussion on the development of a book on politico-administrative relations under
coalition politics
Papers not included into schedule:
Ludmila Malikova, Associate
Professor, Comenius University, Bratislava
Topic: POLITICO-ADMINISTRATIVE
RELATIONS UNDER COALITION POLITICS IN SLOVAKIA
Milan Marković,
Ph.D., Lecturer, Law School in Podgorica Mladen Vukčević, MA
Topic:Political and Administrative Relations within the Present Authorities in Montenegro
Bernadette
Connaughton, Department of Government and Society, University of Limerick
(updated)
Topic: Politico-Administrative Relations under Coalition Government: The Case of Ireland
Topic: GOVERNMENT SUPPORT STRUCTURES IN COALITION GOVERNMENTS: TOWARDS AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
Saturday
April 27 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 3: Agenda setting for the WG in 2002-2003, selection of new working
group coordinators
11.00 – 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group
Co-ordinators:
Elke Loeffler, Bristol Business School, Bristol, UK
Tatiana Zaytseva, School of Public Administration, Moscow
State University, Moscow, Russia
“The argument for reliable,
sensitive and efficient services holds good, irrespective of how and by whom
those services are supplied. Public services were developed during the last
century throughout the world, in recognition of the need for ‘public goods’ which meet the needs of all
members of society. Until recently, most of these services were supplied
exclusively by ‘the public sector’. However, it is now clear that the
continuation of this pattern cannot be assumed. In the public sector there has
too often been the experience of low quality services, generating and
perpetuating low expectations. The result has often been great dissatisfaction
and frustration, but not much action” (Lucy Gaster: Quality in Public
Services, 1995).
Now the situation is
different. “Improving the Quality of Public Services” has become a major theme
on the public sector reform agenda in CEE countries. In the Western world,
there was a first ‘quality’ wave in the early 1990s, often based on ‘Citizen
Charter’ type models. Interest in the quality of public service then
experienced a renaissance in the late 1990s due to the increasing popularity of
the EFQM Excellence Model, the (old and new) ISO 9000 quality systems and the
Common Assessment Framework developed by the EU Member States and the EU.
Therefore, the NISPAcee
Working Group on “Better Quality for the Public” has chosen “Improving the
Quality of Public Services” as the overall theme for its third meeting at the
10th NISPAcee Conference in Cracow. In particular, we will look at:
·
How quality is
put into practice (first session)
·
How quality is
measured (second session)
·
How citizens and
other stakeholders may be involved in quality (third session)
·
What we can take
home from the international exchange of ideas and experiences (fourth session).
This allows us to take
forward the discussions which we had at the NISPAcee Conference in Riga last
year – in Riga we focused on how quality is defined and how quality improvement
processes are started in public agencies.
The goal of the ‘Quality
Working Group’ is to show that quality is not a neutral, technical issue,
though it is often presented as such – in particular by gurus and by
consultancies. The framework we use puts values at the centre. Public services
are owned by and responsible to different stakeholders. Therefore, we have to
question again and again ‘whose quality is it?’ There is no simple answer to
that – if the quality of public services is to be improved, choices about
‘quality for whom’ must be made. The third meeting of the ‘Quality
Group’ will highlight some of these choices and hopefully raise awareness that
quality improvement is more of a social learning process than the application
of ‘ready off the shelf’ instruments.
Thursday, 25
April 2002
14.00 -
15.30 Session 1:
Implementing quality management in service delivery
Keynote speaker:
Peter Humphreys,
Institute for Public
Administration,
Dublin, Ireland
Topic: Improving the quality of services delivered in
Ireland:
different approaches
to the challenge of change
Presentations:
Kristiina Tõnnisson, University of Tartu, Estonia
Topic: The effect of organisational structures and cultures on quality management in Estonian local authorities
Kirill Chagin,
Institute for Urban Economics, Moscow, Russia
Topic:
Experiences with the implementation of competitive
procurement
of social services in Russia
Discussion
with inputs from authors of other selected papers
16.00
- 17.30 Presentations:
Katharine Mark and
Ritu Stone-Nayyar, Urban Institute,Washingotn
Topic: Assessing
the benefits of performance management in
Salvador Parrado Díez,
Distance Learning University (UNED), Spain
Topic: Total quality management from
a democratic-participative perspective: An empirical analysis of quality
improvement groups in two Spanish public agencies
Discussion with inputs from authors
of other selected papers
Call for Participation: Presentation of the 2002 projects of the
NISPAcee Working Group on “Better Quality for the Public”
Friday, 26 April 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 2: The usefulness of quality accreditation
systems for public services in the context of CEE and NIS countries
Keynote speakers:
Geert Bouckaert,
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Topic: What has worked and what has not worked –
experiences
with quality
measurement in Western Europe and North America
Gyorgy Jenei, Budapest University
of Economic Sciences, Hungary
Topic: Do Western quality models work in CEE
countries? Insights from Hungary
Discussion
with inputs from authors of other selected papers
Friday,
26 April 2002 (continued)
11.00
- 12.30 Presentations:
Iveta
Reinholde, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Topic: Quality assessment systems in the Latvian
public sector –
quo vadis?
Sundquist Salme,
Manager, Finnish Association of Local
Authorities
and Regions,Finland
Topic: An evaluation
of the benefits of ISO 9000 in Finnish local
Authorities
Thomas J. Pavlak and Richard L. Milford, Carl Vinson Institute of
Government, University of Georgia, United States
Topic: Measuring
customer service in local government in Georgia
Mirko Vintar, University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Topic: Evaluating
the improvement of service delivery through life-
event portals on the
basis of the CAF
Wouter van Dooren
and Steven Van de Walle, Catholic University f
Leuven, Belgium
Topic: Self-promotion or self-assessment? A study of
the motives
for using the
European Common Assessment Framework in Belgian
public agencies
Discussion with inputs from authors
of other selected papers
14.00
- 15.30 Session
3: Involving citizens in measuring and monitoring the
quality of public
services
Keynote speaker:
Tony Bovaird, Bristol Business School, UK
Topic: Involving
citizens in measuring and monitoring the quality of
public services in
outsourced contracts: some UK case studies
Presentations:
Marcin
Sakowicz, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Topic: Improving
local self-government through the use of ICT
Claudia Pamfil,
Partners Romania Foundation for Local
Development,
Bucharest, Romania
Topic: Experiences
with the citizen participation toolkit in CEE
countries
Madga
Bernatova, University Mateja Bela, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Topic: Transparency
as a precondition for citizen involvement – the
current situation in
Slovakian local government
Discussion with inputs from authors of other selected papers
Friday,
26 April 2002 (continued)
16.00
- 17.15 Panel
with invited speakers
Topic: Improving
the quality of public services in CEE
countries – from
analysis to action
Jasminka Novak, Ministry of European Integration, Croatia
Tony Verheijen,
UNDP, Slovak Republic
Francisco Cardona,
SIGMA/OECD, France
Representative of
the City of Cracow
… and other
distinguished experts in the field.
Plenary
discussion
Saturday, 27 April
2002
9.00
- 10.30 Session 4: Next steps:
from analysis towards synthesis
Plenary discussion: conclusions of the Cracow sessions of the
NISPAcee Working
Group on “Better Quality for the Public”
Brainstorming: Potential topics and joint sessions with other
NISPAcee Working
Groups at the 2003 meeting of the NISPAcee
Working Group on
“Better Quality for the Public” during the 11th
NISPAcee Conference
Critique of
the Cracow meeting
11.00
- 12.30 Closing Plenary Session
Report of the
Working Group
Topic: DEVICES FOR BETTER TARGETING PUBLIC SERVICES: CITIZENS INVOLVEMENT IN STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE CITY OF TALLINN: IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE QUALITY
Topic: Strengthening Local Administration of Social Assistance in Russia
Kostyantyn Kaznacheyev,
UKRAINE
Topic:Forming the quality concept of public services delivering in Ukraine.
Kaire
Troll, Estonian Public Service Academy
Topic: Customer Relations
Management in the Public Sector. A Case Study of the Estonian National Customs
Agency.
Topic: Monitoring Public Expenditures - Report Card Project
Topic:INTRODUCING QUALITY IN STATE ADMINISTRATION OF SLOVENIA
Topic:Quality Assurance of Public Administration Programmes in Poland
Co-ordinators:
Markéta Vylítová, Research Institute for Labour and
Social Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic
János Hoós, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and
Public Administration, Hungary
Selected topics of social security regarding to the former socialist countries (East-Central Europe and Russia) with special emphasis on impacts of globalisation on social policy, with aspects of education, the elderly, the gender (women) problem and poverty. The aims of the WG are to analyse the recent trends and
developments experienced in the selected topics, to draw some lessons for policy decisions and for teaching these subjects in the framework of public administration training and retraining.
Thursday April 25 2002
14.00 - 15.30 Introductory Session:
Brief history of the working group, lessons learnt so far
Funding proposals, research proposed
Aims of the Cracow WG meeting – where do we want to go?
How shall we proceed with the presentations?
16.00 - 17.30 Session 1:
János Hoós, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, (new)
Hungary
Topic: Impact of globalisation on the social policy in Hungary
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Presentations:
David Trytko, University of Economic, Prague, Czech republic
Topic: Convergence of social security systems in the EU - try to their description
Anu Toots, Tallin Pedagogical University, Estonia
Topic:International and national actors in Estonian pension reform
Discussion
11.00 - 12.30 Session
2 : Presentations
Inesa Voronchuk, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Topic: Performance appraisal in public administration
Ludmila Voltchkova, St-Petersburg State University, Russia
Topic: The elderly and issues of social
security in modern Russia
14.00 – 15.30 Closing
Session
Summary, draft of conclusions and lessons learnt at the WG meetings in the context of Globalisation in Social Policies
Follow-up of the WG work, preparation of a research proposal, draft of research protocol
Discussion on possible funding resources for the WG future work
Saturday April 27 2002
11.00 – 13.00 Closing Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group
This year, working sessions of the WG will be devoted to an in-depth analysis of new models and methods of public service delivery from the point of view of ethnic diversity. The aim of the WG is to assess and analyze public policies that determine the access of minorities to public services. Inequitable distribution of public resources may destroy the results of other public policies that aim at promoting cohesion and stability in society. Therefore policies promoting equitable access of minorities to public services will be the focus of discussions.
Sessions of the WG will contribute to the main conference topic by analysing the impact of reforms of public services, especially the introduction of policies of “New Public Management” on the equitable access of minorities to locally provided public services. Main questions to be addressed are the following:
- What are the key policy problems related to equitable access of minorities to public services?
- How are these problems addressed through actual policy practices?
- How can costs of inequitable policies be measured/assessed?
- Are there successful models/policies of service delivery that fulfil the criteria of efficiency
and equity at the same time?
- Which are the key elements of these models/policies of service delivery?
- How do we monitor equity/fairness of policies of public service delivery?
These questions will be addressed through the review of 15 case studies from various countries of CEE, SEE and NIS. Case studies have been partly contributed by members of the research team of the working group. These case studies follow the terms of reference of an agreed research protocol called “Who Benefits? Access of Minorities to Locally Provided Public Services”. Other case studies will bring in experiences of other research and policy initiatives addressing the issue of access.
Results of the research “Who benefits?” as well as a selection of case studies presented and the summary of the Krakow meeting will be published in an edited volume by NISPAcee during the fall 2002.
Thursday April 25
2002
14.00-15.30 Session 1: Mapping the Problem: Access of Minorities to Public Services
Introduction of contributors and working group members
Petra Kovacs, Open Society Institute, LGI, Hungary
Topic: „Who Benefits? Access
of Minorities to Public Services”
16.00 –17.30 Session 2: Roma and the Access to Public Services
Tomas Sirovatka, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Topic: Inter-ethnic
relationships and the role of public policy in the Czech cities
Alice Ondruchova, European Dialogue, London, UK
Topic: Equal opportunity Policies and Access to Public Services, Case Study of
Pardubice Municipality, Czech Republic
Theodora Noncheva, National Social Security Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria
Topic: Welfare for all: Equity and Equality in public services
provision: Case study of
Kazanluk Municipality
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 – 10.30 Session 3: Access of National Minorities to Public Services
Salat Levente , Veres Valer, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
Topic: Ethnic minorities and local public administration in Romania. Cases of
etnocultural tension and segregation
Jana
Krimpe, Tallinn Pedagogical University , Estonia
Topic:
Integration Programme on the level of local government: Case of Tallin city,
Estonia
11.00 – 12.30 Session 4: Access of Minorities to Social Services
Julia Szalai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Topic: Conflicting struggles for recognition on the battle field of
social services:
Clashing interests of gender and ethnicity in contemporary Hungary
Balazs Jarabik, Center for Legal Analyses-Kalligram foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia
Topic: Equal opportunity policies and decentralization in Slovakia
14.00 –15.30 Session 5: Access of Minorities to Educational Services
Paul Downes, St. Patricks College, Dublin, Ireland
Topic: The Estonian and
Latvian integration programmes: A recipe for significant early
school drop-out among their Russian speaking minorities
Fred Lazin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Topic: The absorbtion of Ethiopian Jews into the Israeli education
system during the
years
1984-1992
16.00-17.15 Session 6: Participation of Minorities and Their Access to Public Services
Allan Rosenbaum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA (new)
Topic: Participatory Local Government and the
reintegration of a multiethnic
community in Brcko, Bosnia
Ivana Djuric, Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Topic:
Local governance, integration and participation of Croatian Serbs: in search
of
prosperous model
Saturday April 27 2002
9.00 – 10.30 Participation of Minorities and Their Access to Public Services 2.
Tanya Bogushevich, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Topic: Representation in public administration and participation of
ethnic minorities in
decision-making. The case of Latvia
Rustem Ablyatifov, Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Odessa, Ukraine
Topic: Legislative regulation of public policy of guaranteeing of
rights of indigenous
peoples and national minorities of Ukraine
Conclusions of the Cracow sessions, planning the next year’s
activities
11.00 – 13.00 Closing
Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group
Topic: Equal Opportunities Policies and Decentralization in Slovakia
V. Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting
Co-ordinator:
Zeljko Sevic, University of Greenwich, London,
UK
Fiscal federalism does not exist only in a federal state. Different levels of government in every country, including even those that are extremely centralised, assume a certain level of fiscal co-operation and sharing of revenues. This year‘s topic for Working Group V is ‘Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Central and Eastern European Countries’ and it focuses on the explanation of the types and role of grants in fiscal relations in respective CEECs. The authors will prepare a country study that has to address all the issues set out in a common research protocol. As the central government is by definition responsible for the ‘state of the nation’, the authors will assess how fiscal/financial supervision is pursued in each of the countries.
Former socialist/communist countries were known for their high level of centralisation. This was to a large extent, true for intergovernment budget relations, although there were cases where local (self-) government bodies were in fact able to exercise some degree of discretion in budgeting and allocating local revenues. The project has to assess the current state of affairs and points out what can be done in CEECs to improve the current situation. Large decentralisation programmes have been sponsored and implemented by the World Bank, OECD, EU with the aim to allow a local government body to be more or less financially self-dependent. Ten years have passed since the first systematic attempts were made. The authors will give their account of the recent developments and benefits of decentralisation, taking into account the specifics of a particular country and its present political and economic situation. The Group does not claim that it will be able to assess the situation in great detail, but it will certainly contribute to a better understanding of current practices in the target countries and facilitate a spillover of best (good) practices.
A selection of all papers prepared for and presented at the NISPAcee conference in Krakow should be published in English in a book format, with a possible symposia issue of a journal in the field. As the last day of the Krakow meeting will be devoted to next year‘s research plans, all members of the Group and interested NISPAcee members and observers are invited to contact the Co-ordinator with their proposals for the 2003 conference session and research topic.
Thursday April 25 2002
14.00 - 15.30 Session
1: Zeljko Sevic, Introduction
Presentations:
David Tumanyan, Armenian School of Public Administration, Yerevan, Armenia
Topic: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Armenia
Nazira Tiuliundieva, Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz
Republic
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Kyrgyzstan
Leonida Pliskevich, International Institute of Labour and Social Relations, Minsk, Belarus
Topic: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Republic of Belarus
16.00 - 17.30 Presentations:
Mihaela Onofrei, University of „A.I.Cuza“, Iasi, Romania
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Central
and Eastern European
Countries: The Romanian Case
Juliana Pigey, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Romania:A
Focus on Major Reforms
intorduced by the Law on Local Public Finance(Romanik&Conway)
Maria Jastrzebska, University of Gdansk, Poland (new)
Topic: Repayable sources of financing the self-government units in Poland
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 2:
Presentations:
Yulia Potanina and Tatiana Danieliants, Moscow State University in the name of
Lomonosov, Russia
Topic: Interbudget Relations in Russia: Realities and Problems
Piotr Bury, University of Lodz and Pawel Swianiewicz, Warszawa, Poland (new)
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision over Local Governments in Poland
Philip J. Bryson and Gary C. Cornia, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Topic: Fiscal Decentralisation in the Czech Republic
11.00 - 12.30 Presentations:
Svetlana Alexandrova, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Topic: Grant transfers and financial supervision in Bulgaria. Principles and practice
Mudite Priede, Union of Local and Regional Goverments of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Klapare Solvita, The Wold Bank, Washingtom, D.C., USA
Topic: Grant Transfers and Supervision of Finances in Latvia
Eliko Pedastsaar, Tallin University of Educational Sciences, Estonia
Annika Jaansoo, Tallin Technical University, Tallin, Estonia
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Estonia
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3:
Mark Chandler, EuroFaculty Vilnius Centre, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Topic: Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Lithuania
Predrag Goranovic, Law Faculty Podgorica, Montenegro
Topic: Rights of tax tribury and tax administration in Montenegro
Sergii Slukhai, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine (new ZIPPED!!!)
Topic: Shaping Fiscal Equalization Techniques in Transitional
Countries
Yurii Lukovenko, Agency for Social Analysis, Kyiv, Ukraine
Topic: Issues
in Improvement of Local Governments' Public Service
Provision in Ukraine: New Possibilities Based on the Fiscal Equalization
Instruments
Sorin Ionita, National School of Government, Bucharest, Rumania
Topic: Halfway there: Assessing the Intergovernmental Fiscal
Equalization in Romania after Three Years of Reforms
Ildar Zoulkarnaev, Bashkir Academy of Public Service and Management,
Office of the President of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Russia
Topic:
Analysis of Contradictions in Equalization Schemes on a Federal
Level in Russia
16.00 - 17.15 Round Table
Developing 2002 Research Agenda and Research Protocol
Saturday April 27
2002
9.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Developing the basis for the 2002 Research Protocol and NISPAcee 2003
Conference session
11.00 – 13.00 Closing
Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group
Topic: Fiscal Decentralisation in the Czech Republic
VI. Working
group on Applying the e-Government Framework in Transitional Countries
Co-ordinator:
Theodoros
Tsekos, United Nations Thesaloniki Centre (UNTC), Greece
Peristeras
Vassilios, UNTC, Greece
Thursday April 25 2002
14.30 - 16.00 Opening Session:
Theodoros Tsekos, UNTC, Greece
Vassilios Peristeras, UNTC, Greece
Topic: Applying the e-Government Framework in Transitional
countries
Presentations:
Agnieszka Pawlowska, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Marcin Sakowicz, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Topic: ICT in Local Government: the Polish Experience
Trajkovski Ljubomir, Trajkovski & Partners Management Consulting Practice, Skopje, FYROM
Topic: Public Private Partnership. The Model for Delivering e-Government Services in Local Self Government
16.30 - 17.30
Presentations:
Ljubomir Kekenovski, University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, FYROM
Topic: E –
Government Framework in Transitional Countries – with special insight in
Republic of Macedonia”
Natasa Tomic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Topic: Training in Information Technology for Better Public Service”
Friday April 26 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Presentations:
Tarambanis Konstantinos, University of Macedonia, Greece
Topic: Planning For the Greek eGovernment Framework:
present issues and
prospects
Balazs Budai, Budapest University of Economic Sciences & PA, Hungary
Topic: Communicational Problems of E – government in Local Public Administration
Jan Morovic, PLAUT – International Management Consulting, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Topic: Applying the e-Government Framework in Transitional Countries
11.00 - 12.30 Presentations:
Nikolay Chkoliar, People’s Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Topic:
E – Russia: Program for the Innovation in Government”
Murzaev Salih, Academy of Management, Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan
Topic:
Administrative Informatics and Administration Reforms in Kyrghyzstan:
Process of creation of e-Government
Zana Vokopola, Urban Research Institute, Tirana, Albania
Topic: Electronic Government
14.00 - 15.30 Presentations:
Agne
Kasteckiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Topic: The role of E – Government in the Development of new Economy in Lithuania
Premysl Pergler, Ministry of Agriculture, Prague, Check Republic
Topic: Policy Elaboration Processes with Public Participation and their Computer
Support
Gheorghe
Filip, Ovidiu Stoica, University "A.I.Cuza" Iasi, Romania
Topic: The Transition to E-Government - The Romanian Case
16.00 - 17.15 Presentations:
Dimiter Doychinov Toshkov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Topic: Applying the e-Government Framework in Bulgaria
Nikolova Maria, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Topic: The – era and Bulgarian Administration
Nina Kamenova, Institute of Public Administration and European Integration, Sofia, Bulgaria
Topic: E-Government and IT Training
Saturday
April 27 2002
9.00 - 10.30 Conclusions of the Cracow sessions of the Working Group
11.00 – 13.00 Closing
Plenary Session
Report of the Working Group