Development of DFID Specialist Training Course in Public Service Reform
Project Information
OPM developed a 3 day training course for DFID governance and conflict advisers to enable participants to familiarise themselves with current thinking on key issues in public service reform, to update themselves on recent experience in implementing reform in a sample of developing or transition countries, and to exchange experience with colleagues. The course introduced participants to the following main topics: -identifying the range of factors underlying public sector reform initiatives;-emerging lessons from DFID's work on Drivers of Change;-politics, power and public service reform;-mapping the policy aims and expectations of the principal donors supporting public service reform;-understanding PRSP, MTEFs, sector plans and other planning processes;-understanding the connections between reforms in public expenditure management and budget processes, and public service reform;-modernisation and the "new public management"; -strategic planning, delegation, outsourcing, agency creation, performance management, customer; -focus, choice and market mechanisms, dialogue and consultation, service quality improvements; -latest thinking on reform issues in developed countries and evidence of what works; -decentralisation: developing local and sub-national government capacity; -human resource development: pay reform, training, recruitment and retention;-combating corruption;- introducing reforms and managing change processes. It is intended that the course will be delivered on a regional basis around the world.