Call for inputs: 12th Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA)

Comment

Comment by Roland Ritter on April 6, 2013 at 10:33am

German Ministry of Economics has been contacted several times to implement EN DIN ISO/IEC 17024. Even, if You agree that in 2010 the german law has changed, it is a matter of on-going concern within modern Administration to revise implemetation within the civil construction sector.

For car inspection this has been achieved since 2010. For civil construction, Germany witness a line of big Project failures which are costly. German speaking countries like Austria do follow a different socio-economic Agreement schedule for common-sense ( as exercised for the new Vienna main Station).

Whenever Regulation is required, because there is a Need - then EN DIN 17024 shall serve to proof the outlined personnel licence skill plan. Because deregulated Services are suited to match public Obligation, an ethical code or sworn-in expert System has been deemd less successful for implementation. Deregulation and Training are arranged via the plans that meet the necessary Regulation.

Fire protection would be a good example to be analysed on a global Approach. Public Governance has a least the deregulation policy, the execution of authority within the Framework on an international Standard, the Change of local responsibility persons, the Improvement of Training to all new members to the System, more education and less Administration in the subject, less fire fighter profile, less Administration, more Engineering, more adequateness in Expertise to a technical consequence, less judical or Commercial juudgement to technical factfinding, less misinterpretation, less big Project losses, more involvement of mid-or small-sized companies, less subsidiarity in government and more subsidiary to technical Expertise.

 Actions started in 2006 in Germany (!) on the "first Baugerichtstag" - a Forum of civil works experts - went into the Lisboa Agreement in 2009, came to german law in 2010 and still is not complete in 2013 for Germany. German politics in the national and european Background would become more efficient and effective, if the Administration and Implementation was adapted to new Tools like EN DIN ISO/IEC 17024. Mediation and Moderation are part of the new Standard. It is to explain on the technical baselines what the root-cause mechanism is. We Change from pure formal or descriptive rules to Performance based and target oriented handling. We allow development and Research to use simulations to help in this Performance baseline finding. Administration could therefore climb into a next Level of improvement to ask for theoretical Analysis and closed solution Terms to meet sustainable conditions. This path to a future Change seems unique and open for all cultures to participate. Subjects like "fire protection Engineering" is just an example for the candidates to be witnessed & observed.

Public Service in a classic role is a pre-server of controls. In the future, authority to explain citizen performance to qualify for continued public protection & care is necessary. Public Governance is to answer why, how and under which assumptions the atomic Fusion is a better solution that classic nuclear energy production.

This is only covering technicalities in Bio- Chemistry- or Engineering-Areas of interest.

What is about socio-economic aspects of socienties. If You have a non-weapon industry solution of Technology for pure civil energy production use, will Proliferation of "weapons" become more important? We Need education themes like EN DIN ISO/IEC 17024 to grow more in the Technology sector and establish better individual administrated controls and reduce cost of ambiguity.

Comment by Dmitry Maslov on March 24, 2013 at 2:45pm

Dear colleagues, let me also contribute in the post-2015 development agenda.

During the last two decades public administrations worldwide received a massive injection of business-like methods and techniques under the ideology of new public management. The key feature of this marketizing is new understanding of citizens as customers, who are becoming valuators of performance and quality of public services.

In this respect I would like to point out several issues have to be discussed:

1. In countries with solid traditions of vertical functional structure of governance based on command and control (functional approach) the use of business-like methods based on horizontal processes (service approach) results to contradiction between public functions and public services and so called “perpendicular" governance (this phenomenon was described on the example of Russian case of public administration reform in the article Internal Contradictions in Russian Reforms // Russian Analytical Digest. 2012. №118: Russia's Evolving Political System)

2. As Citizen/Customers play such an important role in public service delivering and the level of customer satisfaction becomes key indicator for process improvement, it is strongly need to develop reliable models and methods which help public administrations on the ground to measure customer satisfaction, to convert customer evaluations, needs and expectations into decision making process, into continues improvement of quality. A good example of such a model could be the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) – quality management model developed by the CAF Resource Centre of the European institute of Public Administration (EIPA). For further information you can look through the CAF good practice book that was a result of the multi country activity of the UNDP Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform "IQUAL Improving quality of public management through application of...". 

Comment by Syed Ejaz Hussain Shah on March 24, 2013 at 9:01am

making public governance work for the post-2015 development agenda with Befa Pakistan Through Non for mal basic education , and community development.

Comment by Shibeshi Kassa Gebremariam on March 21, 2013 at 5:37am

(a) making public governance work for the post-2015 development agenda;

In many areas public administrators mainly focus on public management forgetting or giving less attention to public governance. In my perspective public governance is about involving stakeholders in government activities that directly affect their live. So public mangers should get themselves out of the box and increase the participation of the community for whom they deliver services. The other issue is developing the capacity of those citizens so that they could make qualitative descions and solve problems  within their diescretion. As we have observed so far in some developing countries the society does not have full awareness about what MDG is why it is important and how it could benefit those target groups. So strengthening awareness creartion is also another area wehre due attention should be given  for the post-2015 development agenda. For your information I do not expect we should have new agenda after post-2015 but rather accomplish those ongoing MDG agendas  in an intensified manner since many counties are not able achieve them in a given period.

(b) stakeholders accountability in public governance for development; Stake holders capacity to make them able take quality decisions, awareness creation and empowering them are primary things to be done. Once they are engaged there should mechanism or institution in which they should be kept accountable and responsible about their tasks though much of thier participation is voluntary excercise. 

(c) creating an enabling environment for the post-2015 development agenda. First resources from within and from external sources should be available for the accomplishment of tasks post-2015 development agenda. All those who have pledged to contribute in kind or cash for the accomplishment of  the post-2015 development agenda should keep up their words. Internal resources at the country level should be mobilized and used effectively and efficiently