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12-May-2015
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Assessment of the Armenian Civil Service System (SIGMA, 2010)
This assessment report was prepared under request of the Civil Service Council (CSC) of the Republic of Armenia. It aims at analyzing strengths and weaknesses of the current situation of the civil service system in the country as well as identifying challenges and opportunities for change.
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30-November-2014
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Civil Service Professionalisation in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (SIGMA 2014)
This report examines the professionalism of the civil service in five countries in the immediate eastern neighbourhood of the European Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. For the purposes of the study, the narrow scope of public service is applied, covering the administrative bodies that are included in the scope of the civil service law at the level of central state administration.
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18-November-2014
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Principles of public administration reform, SIGMA 2014
Principles of Public Administration provide a detailed definition of good public administration that the Western Balkan countries and Turkey should be aiming for as European Union accession countries. These principles supplement the European Commission Enlargement package, which defined public administration reform as a pillar of the enlargement process.
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3-November-2014
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Principles of Public Administration overview, SIGMA 2014
This is the overview on the report entitled Principles of Public Administration, which provide a detailed definition of good public administration that the Western Balkan countries and Turkey should be aiming for as European Union accession countries. These principles supplement the European Commission Enlargement package, which defined public administration reform as a pillar of the enlargement process.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 1: Top Management Service in Central Government (1995)
This publication aims to provide practical input to countries which are conducting the necessary analyses and preparing decisions. Indeed, development of a top management service is a task which must be undertaken in countries choosing to adopt such a service, taking into account national objectives and preconditions.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 3: Training Civil Servants for Internationalisation (1996)
The training of public servants to prepare for EU-accession was chosen as the case for a 1995 SIGMA seminar on "Training for Internationalisation" in order to expose Central and Eastern European countries to general and specific training needs as they prepare to meet their obligations under the Europe Agreements. This publication contains those papers presented at the seminar.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 5: Civil Service Legislation Contents Checklist (1996)
This publication has been used as the basic framework for many SIGMA reviews of draft civil service legislation in Central and Eastern European countries. Yet the Checklist stands by itself as a practical document defining a professional, impartial and permanent civil service in legal terms.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 9: Effective Communications Between the Public Service and the Media (1996)
More than ever, the credibility of the government and the acceptance of public policies depends on the degree to which it is open with the media. A relationship that stresses a free flow of information between government and the media is necessary from the inception of a public policy.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 10: Civil Service Pension Schemes (1997)
This publication is a tool for designers of new civil service pension schemes in central and eastern Europe. It presents civil service pension schemes in five OECD Member countries and ten central and eastern European countries.
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14-March-2014
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SIGMA Paper No. 11: Budgeting and Monitoring of Personnel Costs (1997)
This publication is the product of a seminar on budgeting and controlling personnel costs which SIGMA organised in March 1996 in Paris. Drawing in particular on the experience of EU Member countries, the seminar enabled participants to compare different types of budgeting and monitoring, their respective advantages and disadvantages, as well as their prerequisites regarding institutions and procedures.