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Efficiency, effectiveness and service in public administration IPAM the Dutch Informal Pro-Active Approach Model Lynn van der Velden Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Outline presentation. Introduction Description IPAM, current status, results and goals
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Efficiency, effectiveness and service in public administrationIPAMthe Dutch Informal Pro-Active Approach Model Lynn van der VeldenMinistry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Outline presentation • Introduction • Description IPAM, current status, results and goals • National and international context and developments • EC and UN interest in projects • Dynamics and challenges
The Dutch Policy Context for IPAM • Both private sector and government spend millions in hours and costs on complaint, objection and appeal procedures and there is a significant increase of subsidized legal aid up to € 400 mln per year • Cause of 11% of the total amount of administrative burdens for citizens • Part of citizens’ top ten most pressing bottlenecks in government services, citizens contentment 4,8 b 3
National implementation of IPAM for decision-making processes and in case of complaint handling and objection procedures • Solution for miscommunication, poor behaviour, unclear rules, disputes with and between citizens leading to significant increase of acceptance of government decisions and citizens contentment • NEW POLICY • First intervention by telephone , pro-active solution driven approach • Informal dialogue, including in person discussion on what is the best way to handle the problem
Current status & goal • Goal: nation wide implementation in all government decision-making processes including complaint handling and objection procedures • Within the next four years in a minimum of 50% of all decision-making processes IPAM should be offered • At the moment 220 pilots in 16 government domains
Development of governments and public service delivery Bureaucratic Open & participative Kafka’esque • Transparent & responsive • Innovative • Both bottom-up & top-down • User-centric & Personalised • Relationship- and behaviour-based • Arbitrary • Random • Coercive • Rules-based • Administrative • Top-down • Gov-centric • One-size-fits-all
Service delivery & citizen satisfaction Trust in government Job satis-faction civil servants Transparancy Admitting mistakes Integrity Equality Reduction of Administrative burdens Workplace Education and development Management Timely services Treatment Professionality Results drivers Canadian Citizens first project and research
Results • Reduction of cost for the government of approximately 20% • An increase of citizen satisfaction of 40% • An increase in employee satisfaction of 20% • Informal procedure preferred and leads to a solution in 50%-60% of the objection cases and in 80-90% complaint cases
System change • Pilots are evolving to a national system change • Administrative law • Court proceedings involving government organisations • National policy on a change of processes within public service delivery
International interest • European Public Service Award • United Nations Public Service Award
Dynamics and challenges • Dutch hospitals • * education on IPAM is part of education Dutch physicians • * professionalisation of complaint handling and development of system for learning from complaints • Challenges: when insurance offices are involved because of a claim • 2. Dutch municipalities • * top runners and innovators within IPAM project • * broadest variety of government domains • Challenges: when to stop, lawyers, multi-party involvement, handling expectations, change management within the organizations
Bottlenecks and challenges • Project is based only on a training • OR • - coaching on the job • - telephone-buddies • - meetings amongst pilot members during the pilot • Involvement of management • Coördination of pilot and adjustment of procedures • Coöperation between Projectleader and projectmembers