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SIGMA Paper No. 12: Country Profiles of Civil Service Training Systems (1997)
The information contained in this report is essential to the efforts by countries in transition, working in collaboration with the donor community, to develop demand-driven training strategies, efficient structures for civil service training, and cost-effective and sustainable training activities. It is the product of a project which SIGMA started in autumn 1995.
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SIGMA Paper No. 13: Assessing the Impacts of Proposed Laws and Regulations (1997)
This publication is a follow-up to a seminar that was held in Riga in October 1996 for public officials of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It comprises a brief description of the highlights of the seminar discussions and the three papers that were prepared for the seminar by experts from Canada, France and the United States.
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SIGMA Paper No. 14: Civil Service Legislation: Checklist on Secondary Legislation (1997)
This checklist is intended to supplement the Civil Service Legislation Contents Checklist (Paper No. 5, 1996). The present checklist deals with matters that can usefully be considered in connection with the secondary instruments that may be needed to implement the Civil Service Act enacted by the Parliament.
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SIGMA Paper No. 15: Checklist on Law Drafting and Regulatory Management in Central and Eastern Europe (1997)
This checklist offers a means for evaluating structures, procedures and techniques for preparing and drafting legislation, and for identifying methodologies that may be helpful when changes are under consideration. Law drafting comprises two stages: policy development, and preparation of the legislative text to give effect to the policy adopted. The checklist is primarily concerned with the latter.
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SIGMA Paper No. 16: Public Service Training Systems in OECD Countries (1997)
This short paper is meant to point out the determining components of training systems, and advantages and disadvantages of possible solutions as they were developed in OECD countries, in order to assist countries in central and eastern Europe to set up a sound training system, while avoiding mistakes already experienced in OECD countries.
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SIGMA Paper No. 17: Administrative Procedures and the Supervision of Administration in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia and Albania (1997)
This report provides comparative information on administrative law and administrative supervision in central and eastern European countries, and to highlight certain relationships with developments in these areas in Western Europe. Although each country has its own history and traditions in approaching these matters, there is at the same time emerging a common and widely accepted model of how they should be managed in democratic states.
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SIGMA Paper No. 18: Law Drafting and Regulatory Management in Central and Eastern Europe (1998)
This publication is made up of a general report, six country reports and several appendices, such as relevant regulations and the OECD checklist for regulatory decision–making. The general report on law drafting and regulatory management is designed as a hands-on tool for policymakers and law drafting personnel.
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SIGMA Paper No. 21: Promoting Performance and Professionalism in the Public Service (1997)
This report is on human resources management practices in the public administrations of four central and eastern European countries: Albania, Estonia, Hungary and Poland. It is based on information from 1996, and its focus is on public personnel management systems, management procedures and management practices and how they either support or hinder professionalism and appropriate conduct.
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SIGMA Paper No. 25: Public Opinion Surveys as Input to Administrative Reform (1998)
This report examines the use of public opinion surveys as tools to advance administrative reforms in western European countries and central and eastern European countries. The aim is to demonstrate to central and eastern European governments and civil servants the utility of public opinion surveys before, during and after reforms in their countries and to encourage their systematic use.
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SIGMA Paper No. 27: European Principles for Public Administration (1999)
This paper attempts to identify the standards to which EU candidate countries are expected to conform in order to align their public administrations with those of EU Member States. Originating from SIGMA’s work on public administration reform in central and eastern European countries, it describes an important part of the basis of the SIGMA methodology for assessing candidate countries’ public administration capacities.