Project title: The UNDP Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform (RCPAR)

Presenters:

Anne Caroline Tveoy, Policy Specialist, RCPAR

Panos Liverakos, Team Leader, RCPAR
The Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform is a fairly new five-year regional project launched by the United Nations Development Programme, Bratislava Regional Centre and primarily financed by the Hellenic Government. The project aims at facilitating professional networking and co-operation between the countries in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Thematically, the Regional Centre focuses on strengthening capacities for policy-making and coordination; improving public finance management; enhancing organisation and staffing in the public sector and promoting public service delivery. Through its philosophy, design and operational mechanisms, the project offers significant opportunities for countries in the region to engage in the formulation and implementation of multi-country initiatives funded by the Regional Centre. Network members, consisting of practitioners, academics and other experts from the countries in the region, are actively encouraged to submit ideas and develop proposals, involving a minimum of three countries in the region, within one of the thematic areas. The funding available for each initiative is around US$100,000, and the project aims at generating at least six initiatives per year. Guidelines and application templates are available at www.rcpar.org. UNDP sees the project as a major anchor for regional programming on public administration reform in the coming years.

Project title: Establishing the Eurasian Institute for Leadership Development in Public Administration at Siberian Academy for Public Administration

Presenter: Marina V. Tyasto, Siberian Academy for Public Administration, Russian Federation

The aim of this proposal is to develop best leadership training technologies, train the trainers and disseminate new courses and training among educational institutions in Siberia, other regions of Russia and the countries of NIS, especially Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan).  EILDPA, as a geopolitical site for international collaboration between East and West, will promote Leadership as a driving force for changes and particularly for introducing and developing good governance education programmes in Eastern Russia and neighbouring Asian countries.

The UNESCO Chair “Leadership in Public administration and management of socio-economic processes” at SAPA, as an academic umbrella, will promote the concept of leadership for human development educational programmes for diverse target groups from all sectors in Siberia and Asian countries and will form and widen the Eurasian educational space. Partners are welcome!

Project title: Civil Service Capacity Building for Change Management

Presenter: Nuripa Mukanova, Academy of Management under the President of KR, Kyrgyzstan

Despite lasting efforts to reform the public management in the Kyrgyz Republic, the issue still rests on the lack of a high professional civil service that will serve as change agents. The problem remains to be a lack of training programmes that shift formal training from classroom teaching to problem solving. The proposed fellowship project has been designed to support practical policy and public management reforms by building capacities of talented and committed government officials who are well placed to influence policy, practical implementation of reforms and serve as change agents. The fellowship project will provide its fellows with training to formulate effective policy to solve particular problems, to determine particular steps required for its implementation and evaluate progress against agreed milestones.

The proposal will be presented to the NISPAcee community due to the invaluable worldwide experience that NISPAcee has accumulated in providing such training and projects. What we would like to achieve during the Fair is to attract possible international partners and to learn about possible donors of such a project.