Implementation of the Public Administration Reform
Strategy in Montenegro
Manual
The project "Implementation of the Public
Administration Reform Strategy in Montenegro”, implemented by NISPAcee, within
the UNDP–Government of Slovakia programme on Promotion of the Slovak
Transitional Experience and Human Capital in ODA, completed its activities in
July 2012.
The main purpose of the project was to provide members of
the Montenegrin Governmental Task Force - Coordination Committee for
Implementation of the PAR Strategy - with a source of knowledge and comparative
experience on the adaptation and reform of Public Administration during the EU
accession process.
This was assured by the implementation of the following
three main activities: study tour to Slovakia for members of the Coordination
Committee of the Government of Montenegro (implemented in November – December
2011); Slovak experts’ mission to Montenegro (implemented in March 2012) and
the development of Guidelines (published in July 2012).
As already mentioned, the basic idea behind the project
was to contribute to the successful reform process in Montenegro with selected
Slovak experiences, arising from the process of public administration
implementation and reform. Since this reform in Montenegro is already at an
advanced level, it was necessary to focus the project's activities on the
reform priorities specified in the Public Administration Reform Strategy
(AURUM) for the years 2011–2016. As a result of this, and based on selected
Slovak experience, the Government Commission members have chosen, during their
study tour (December 2011), certain topics from the process of public
administration reform and management in the Slovak Republic, which now form the
core of this manual. It is these issues, elaborated herein, which are closely
connected to the continuing problems of Montenegrin public administration
reform, soon to be dealt with on the basis of the AURUM strategy, together with
the requirements applicable for Montenegro as a candidate State for the
European integration process.
The selection of topics included in this manual was
carried out by the Montenegrin Government Commission members, in close
cooperation with Slovak experts, in such a manner as to cover, within their
contents, various marginal aspects of public administration reform and to
respond to the current problems and major challenges of the Montenegrin reform
process. Included in the manual are issues of the proper and efficient
functioning of local state administration, as well as self-government, the
conceptual and consistent education of civil servants and, last but not least,
the issue of quality assessment of the influences of proposals for generally
binding legal regulations and the process for making them available to the
public.
The project team believes that a manual structured in
this manner and, in particular, the information it contains, will become an
inspiration, not only for members of the Montenegrin Government Commission, but
also for other representatives involved in the reform of the state
administration authorities at a local, as well as regional level,
self-government representatives, and the entire professional public in
Montenegro.
The developed manual is available free of charge in
three languages – English, Montenegrin and Slovak (to download free version use the LINK and click on the
given language version).