United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), within the "Civil Service Training for
the 21st Century in the Republic of Serbia” Project, opens Call for
Proposals for Grant Competition on Flagship Public Sector Innovation Programme intended for academic institutions – universities (local or international) which are not
funded by governments (state owned institutions) and civil society
organizations, think-tanks (local or international).
The
full competition rules and guidelines can be downloaded here.
The
objective of the UNDP Call for Proposals is development and implementation of a
flagship program in order to build better understanding and strengthen skills
among a group of senior civil servants relating to the design and
implementation of innovations in public administration.
The learning outcomes of the proposed
flagship programme should be built around the following demonstratable learning
outcomes, namely that, trainees will be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the
concept of innovation in public administration;
• Demonstrate familiarity with a wider
set of governance and regulatory approaches and techniques that can be used to
complement or enhance current governance approaches that are in place in Serbia
in efforts to bring the state administration closer to the ideals of modern and
functional civil service/public administration;
• Identify where innovation could be
implemented in their own organisation and/or policy;
• Improve their own culture of
innovation and develop a stronger personal inclination towards forward-looking
and problem-solving thinking looking for innovative solutions;
• Based on the framework and knowledge
learned in the flagship programme, propose a set of specific innovations that
could be implemented in their own organisation/sector, in the broader policy
field or in other parts and levels of the Serbian public administration;
• Evaluate the prospects for successful
implementation of the proposed innovation(s), anticipate their success and
failure factors and suggest how these could be managed.
Applications should be sent
electronically to the following e-mail address:grants.rs@undp.orgby April 4, 2023 at 23.59 CET.
For the additional questions regarding
the application procedure, potential applicants can refer to the e-mail
address grants.rs@undp.org.