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SIGMA's support for the establishment of professional civil services focuses on structural elements, such as civil service legislation, salary systems, and human resources management. Assistance in drafting and passing civil service legislation is based on a comparative approach using expertise from EU Member States. SIGMA also assists partner countries in developing their civil service management systems and tools.Support in this area includes assistance in developing the administrative legal framework. SIGMA promotes an exchange of professional expertise and offers advice on the organisation and functioning of the public administration. SIGMA also advises on improving the quality of administrative performance and on methods for the delivery of public services.
The Right to Open Public Administrations in Europe: Emerging Legal Standards (SIGMA Paper No 46, 2010)
The aim of this report is to explore the most problematic aspects of information access to legal regimes and to provide some guidelines to policy makers, including legislators, governments and public administrators. The analysis is based on the comparison of Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs) and their administrative/judicial enforcement in 14 EU member states and EU institutions.
Sustainability of Civil Service Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe Five Years After EU Accession (SIGMA Paper No 44, 2009)
This paper examines the status of civil service reforms in the eight Central and Eastern Europe EU Member States since accession in 2004. The paper aims to draw lessons on reform sustainability that could be used in the design of civil service reform strategies in EU candidate countries. The study will also provide an opportunity to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of EU pre-accession support to civil service reform and help to identify the areas of civil service reform that could benefit from further EU support.
Organising the Central State Administration - Policies and Instruments (SIGMA Paper No 43, 2007)
This study focuses on the organisational dimension of national administrations and the impact of "agencification" on governance structures. It refers in particular to the accountability mechanisms that EU Member States have (or not) put in place to ensure policy coherence across the state administration, control of public funds, and responsiveness of the government as a whole to the expectations of citizens.
Conflict of Interest Policies and Practices in Nine EU Member States: A Comparative Review (SIGMA Paper No 36, 2005)
This Sigma Paper provides information on how six “old” EU Member States – France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the UK – and three “new” EU Members – Hungary, Latvia and Poland - regulate conflict of interest and ethics for public officials. The conclusions provide valuable inputs into the development of policies and instruments to improve regulations and practices.
Public Sector Ethics Resource
In 2004 SIGMA carried out a project in Bulgaria for the development of a Public Sector Ethics Resource (PSER), a comprehensive set of multimedia resource materials for building public service capacity to strengthen ethics and integrity and to identify and prevent corrupt practices. The Bulgarian PSER served as a model for subsequent PSERs developed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In addition to video materials, a range of country-specific materials – relevant legislation, policy and case studies – were included in each version of the PSER. In developing the PSER, SIGMA experts worked in partnership with relevant civil service agencies, anti-corruption organisations, and institutes of public administration. After pilot testing and evaluation, these materials served as support for the development of a national strategy for the delivery of training to large numbers of public officials and for the transmission of anti-corruption information to the general public.
Also take a look at Sigma's work on public procurement.
Other OECD sources of information on public service issues: Gov's work on public employment and management issues
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