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  • Managing and monitoring grand design public administration reforms (English)

    A grand design attempt at public administration reform can be thought of as any centrally designed, multiple agency reform program or process designed to modernize or improve the performance of administrative...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98809 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verheijen,Antonius

  • Strengthening cabinet office procedures (English)

    Located at the hub of Government’s decision-making system, center-of-government offices are crucial to a government’s capacity to define and implement their policies and programs. The work of coordination...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98814 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Goldsworthy,Diana

  • Common practices in setting expenditure ceilings within national budgets (English)

    Developing a national budget has always entailed a complex set of negotiations between national Government priorities, line ministry priorities, and a national funding envelope. This note explains how...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98813 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dorotinsky,William Leslie,Watkins,Joanna Alexandra

  • Does the public sector HRM system strengthen staff performance? (English)

    An important objective of any Human Resource Management (HRM) system in Government is to motivate staff to perform well. This GET note looks at several HRM levers that Governments have at their disposal...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98811 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manning, Nick,Watkins,Joanna Alexandra,Degnarain,Nishan

  • Public sector human resource practices to drive performance (English)

    Many Governments wrestle with the issue of designing an appropriate set of human resource practices to motivate public servants to perform. Identifying the right set of practices for the public sector...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98810 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manning, Nick,Hasnain,Zahid,Pierskalla,Jan Henryk

  • Identifying constraints to budget execution in Indonesia’s infrastructure sector (English)

    Timely budget execution and sound public financial and management (PFM) institutions are keyto achieving development targets and outcomes. In Indonesia’s case improving budget executionis more important...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98771 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahern,Mark Eugene,Ihsan,Ahya,Purnomo,Hari,Sienaert,Alexis,Thomas,Theo David,Taylor,Ashley D.

  • International experiences with senior executive service cadres (English)

    A growing number of countries now manage their senior public servants within a distinct human resource management (HRM) regime with tailored recruitment, management, and remuneration practices which differ...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98772 Document Date: April 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lafuente,Mariano,Manning, Nick,Watkins,Joanna Alexandra

  • Introducing performance contracts in the Dominican Republic (English)

    In the last decade, governments around the world have designed and used performance contracts, with mixed experiences. Many see them as a useful mechanism to improve management processes; enhance the effectiveness...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98773 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Watkins,Joanna Alexandra,Monegro, Juan Tomas,Arizti,Pedro

  • Kazakhstan - Note on senior civil service pay (English)

    This report examines the pay-setting arrangements for senior civil servants in three settings: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Singapore. It concludes that: a robust analytic approach for pay setting...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73023 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Managing a sustainable Results Based Management (RBM) system (English)

    This note presents a framework for thinking about public sector results based management (RBM) systems, with a particular focus on the issues line agencies face in complying with mandates and directives...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63747 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Center of government delivery units (English)

    Several governments around the world have recently established delivery units at the center of government to drive performance improvements. This development may be in addition to whole-of-government reforms...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 60092 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Japanese public sector assessment processes (English)

    The Government of Japan began introducing evaluation techniques in 2001 within the context of a Central Government reform program that involved the establishment of new ministries and the integration and...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 60093 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Matsuura,Miki,Watkins,Joanna Alexandra,Dorotinsky,William Leslie

  • Options for restraining the wage bill (while preserving essential service delivery) (English)

    Nearly every personnel and pay system has some slack in it, either fiscal excess or staff positions (vacant or otherwise) that are not essential. The key is to look for targeted measures that produce savings...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53460 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dorotinsky, Bill,Manning, Nick,Rinne,Jeffrey James

  • Service delivery reviews in Canada and the U.K. (English)

    This brief describes in detail Canada's policy on alternative service delivery and service delivery reviews in the UK, such as the prior options reviews, better quality services and best value reviews...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53459 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Getting more from a fiscal stimulus (English)

    The severity and global nature of the current financial and economic crisis has increased the role expected of fiscal policy in stimulating national and global demand, protecting vulnerable groups, and...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53457 Document Date: July 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thomas,Theo David