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SIGMA-ReSPA Public Administration Awards in the Western Balkan region – 2022 Edition
15 September 2022
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Principles of Public Administration Data Portal - policy simulator
26 May 2022
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Newsletter May 2022: 30 years of SIGMA
25 May 2022
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Regional Overview Western Balkans
16 February 2022
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2021 Monitoring Reports
30 November 2021
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News & Events
Western Balkans Ministerial Conference on PAR / Public Administration Awards 2022
This conference on Inspiring public sector transformation: public service custom-made to citizens and businesses was held on 15 September 2022. Organised with ReSPA it assembled Ministers in charge of PAR good governance and digitalisation to discuss challenges and opportunities in the region. During the conference the winners of the Public Administration Awards 2022 were revealed.
Quality management in the Albanian public administration
On 6 July 2022, SIGMA co-hosted with ReSPA an event on quality management in the Albanian public administration. The event was held under the patronage of the Albanian Prime Minister and the Minister of State for Standards and Services and focused on the improvement of public administration and public services through introducing instruments for quality management.
Visit of Executive Director of the Reform Delivery Office, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
On 16 June 2022, the Executive Director of the Reform Delivery Office of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Tetyana Kovtun, visited SIGMA and discussed PAR-related issues in Ukraine’s Draft Recovery Plan. She presented the Plan at a meeting with OECD staff working on Ukraine and gave a speech alongside the OECD Secretary-General at a meeting dedicated to SIGMA’s 30th anniversary.
High-level event on regulatory reform in Egypt with ERRADA
On 31 May SIGMA organised an event in Cairo “For a Strong Economy - Guidance to Regulatory Reform in Egypt” under the Auspices of the Minister of Planning and Economic Development, to launch the Guide to Developing Secondary Legislation in Egyptian Legislating Bodies, a methodological tool on good legislation for policy implementation, economic development and service delivery
Ministerial follow-up event – administrative simplification through evidence-based policy making
The second follow-up event after the Ministerial linked the results from the PDC and service delivery areas. A high-level conference was organised jointly with ReSPA on 24-25 May 2022 in Istanbul with senior officials from all Western Balkan administrations representing the centres of government, service delivery and policymaking institutions and officials from OECD and EU.