Training and capacity Building for Good Governance

1. Training and capacity Building for Good Governance Jacek Czaputowicz Director of National School of Public Administration, Poland Rome, 13-14October 2008

2. Content of the Presentation • Good Governance Model in comparison with Alternative Models • Implications for training in Public Administration • Is training in Public administration in accordance with requirements of Good Governance?

3. Governance • Governance refers to administrative activities conducted by civil services (narrow definition) • May encompass regulatory activities (broad definition) • Refers to tools used by governments, principles of operation and interactions between politics and the market • State abandons authoritarian role and assumes the role of a partner and mediator of contradictory interests

4. The Weberian Model • The traditional bureaucratic model derives from Weber’s concept of rational administration • Characterized by: • a clear division of roles, • reliance on procedures, • strict financial control, • hierarchy and • supervision of the central agency • Civil servants perform their duties, submit to official discipline and follow a career path

5. New Public Management • Draws from the private sector, market mechanisms • Promotes competition among service providers, delegates competences and control to local communities • Administration concentrates on the results, objectives and the mission • Citizens are clients, choice between schools, training programs or residence options

6. Good Governance • Social context in the reform of public administration • Assumes that the spheres of business and public administration are essentially different • They should be organized and function in a different manner • Requires society’s trust in the government • Encompasses the principles of transparency, personal honesty, high ethical standards, observance of laws, accountability, and accessibility

7. A comparison of governance models

8. Implications for training • NPM introduced new types and methods of training • Training becamehomogenized • Many techniques and skills are valuable • Good Governance requires very challenging system of training

9. Good Governance principles • Consensus building • Citizen participation • Increasing accountability • Transparency • Freedom of Information • Effectiveness • Efficiency • Inclusiveness and equitability in treatment • Respect for the rule of law

10. Training for Good Governance • Behavior according to these principles may require change in legal regulations governing civil servants • In most cases change of attitudes and behavior within existing law • Imaginative design and integration of training programs • Requires “unlearning“ of old valuesand behavior and learning new set of values and behavior • Reduce democratic deficit and to support equality

11. Conclusions • Does training prepare civil servants to act in the way required by Good Governance? • In Poland cultural and historical background to overcome (communist heritage) • PA programmes are within faculties of Law and Administration • Programs are law oriented, not management oriented • They petrify traditional model, prepare civil servants to act in burocratic way