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

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Comment by Roland Ritter on May 27, 2013 at 1:06pm

http://www.bmz.de/de/presse/aktuelleMeldungen/2013/mai/130503_pm_90...

Publication ranging from german Minister to tv Show ask for education and Regulation. Probably a unique right-to-work-safe policy can be implemented in industrialised trading countries. Tax and surveillance of the supply chain from underdeveloped countries seeking pure labour force at rates between 2 and 40 Euro per month for 160 hours of work seem to be low. Social and working conditions are another dimension in the comparison of equal pay for equal Quality of Training. Standards like EN DIN ISO/IEC 17024 provide common grounds and allow surveillance by the procurment chain responsibles to allow for safe working conditions.

How will UN CEPA be able to use first taken steps to get a human right initiative going? Could it be a "respect for human workmanship"? Will it be through the "Made in ...." label Reform to show via RFID a complete chain of world wide production? Luxury brands as well as high volume-low Price marketeers seem to exploit workers who are unable to serve their own home market with Quality products. What can UN do to establish micro and macro measures?

To me my humble Approach to describe Training Standards in fire protection and safe work seems to have a tooling to Speed national industry demand coverage controls.

Kind regards

Comment by Panayitza Georgina Sierra Ramos on April 11, 2013 at 11:12pm

Inputs for consideration by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA).

 

I was kindly invited to submit inputs directly related to the topics for the 12^th session of CEPA; I am very thankful for this opportunity. In my country, Mexico, the role of responsive and accountable public governance in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda are going on according to the development framework of UN System, as, for instance, the presidency of Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto has just decreed the National Program to eradicate hunger since January 2013, nearly at the beginning of the six-year president’s office since December 2012. Traditionally, Mexico participates as an active member in UN System since its adhesion on November 7^th, 1945.

Nevertheless, there is much work to do, for instance, upon the question of the gender equality, another Millennium Development Goal, not only in Mexico but even within the core of UN System where is compulsory to increase the participation of women in posts of all levels, although this must be focused especially on the top of the hierarchy where women have got null or scarce participation since this international organization was founded, so, it is time not only of generating the idea of appointing the very first woman as the Secretary-General (this is, as the head of the Secretariat appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council, for the next five-year renewable term) but to concrete it. As this is not just a matter of criticizing or expounding matters but to offer solutions, my proposal to this point is to put into discussion, in the 12^th session of CEPA, the legally binding of implementation of UN jobs for women upon the basis of fifty percent of female participation; in this way, this sort of governance would be spread to the rest of the world exemplified by promoting gender equality and empowering women within United Nations itself.

In Mexico, women have got the right to vote in federal polls since 1953, this means the beginning to participate in the national democracy. In spite of the 2002 reforms accomplished by the Mexican Federal Electoral Court, and fore related legislation established upon the Mexican Federal Electoral Code, the present-day integration of the Mexican Senate Chamber, the XLII Legislature, is formed by 44 women and 84 men from a total of 128 Senators. And the XLII Legislature of the Mexican Congress Chamber is integrated only by 37.2% of female members, that is, 186 women and 314 men from a total of 500 congressional seats.

From my standpoint,  these submitted inputs are congruent and directly related to this thematic task and must be taken into account on making public governance work for the post-2015 development agenda, stakeholders accountability in public governance for development; creating an enabling environment for the post-2015 development agenda.

 

Lic. Panayitza Georgina Sierra Ramos.

Professor of Law and English and French Languages at UGMSUR university, Lawyer, Special Multi-Lingual participant at WIPO Academy, UNPAN member.

April 5th, 2013.

 

Comment by Dmitry Maslov on March 25, 2013 at 1:13am

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 Victoria Kim on March 21, 2013 at 9:53am

Comment on behalf of Gayah Gulam Haidar:

The role of responsive and accountable public governance in achieving the Millennium Development Goals..

1. Awareness of electronic or online services must be an integral part of delivering service by public offices.

2. Public governance must then incorporate and adopt best practices and aligning ICT and strategies with organisational goals.

3. Comprehensive mechanisms of accountability and transparency must be core to service delivery.

4. Online services should be designed as core program with its spin-off activities, to generate the notion of citizen centric and convenience.

Comment by Shibeshi Kassa Gebremariam on March 21, 2013 at 2:38am

(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

 

Comment by Wai Min Kwok on March 18, 2013 at 6:53pm

Comment on behalf of Professor Dennis Anderson, Ph.D.:

It is my pleasure to address three topics in support of CEPA.

(a) In order to make public governance work for the post-2015 development agenda, the
following action items should be considered.

adopt or develop or continue a good governance strategy;
implement a good governance practice based on the strategy;
adopt ICT to assess the implementation and build accountability and transparency in
the system and link local governance to federal governance.

(b) In order to hold stakeholders accountable in public governance for development, the
following should be consider.

the governance framework has to have transparency checks;
reduce the redundant functions and optimize business processes;
create independent review committee;
reward for good governance practices and prosecute illegal practices like bribery and
educate all stakeholders about good governance.

(c) To create an enabling environment for the post-2015 development agenda

have specific goals by creating a national-level governance strategic plan;
assess its goals continuously;
identify strengths and weaknesses and address weaknesses by allocating additional
budget;
embrace ICT to optimize the system;
create a citizen-centric environment;
have a strong accountable resource management strategy

Looking forward to the CEPA meeting.

Professor Dennis Anderson, Ph.D.
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