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9-July-2020
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This paper provides ideas for civil service authorities, HR units and line managers as ministries and agencies reopen and face new challenges in the context of coronavirus (COVID-19), with civil servants returning to on-site work.
8-June-2020
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This analytical overview presents the measures taken by EU member States' in the policy area of public service and human resource management, in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis and how EU member States and selected OECD countries have managed the initial stage of the crisis with regard to the functioning of the government and the public administration.
4-June-2020
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These guidelines, prepared by SIGMA for its beneficiaries, are intended to provide support to managerial officials and human resource (HR) units when preparing the gradual process of returning to work premises after the coronavirus (COVID-19) confinement.
30-November-2014
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This report examines the professionalism of the civil service in five countries in the immediate eastern neighbourhood of the European Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. For the purposes of the study, the narrow scope of public service is applied, covering the administrative bodies that are included in the scope of the civil service law at the level of central state administration.
14-March-2014
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This publication aims to provide practical input to countries which are conducting the necessary analyses and preparing decisions. Indeed, development of a top management service is a task which must be undertaken in countries choosing to adopt such a service, taking into account national objectives and preconditions.
14-March-2014
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The training of public servants to prepare for EU-accession was chosen as the case for a 1995 SIGMA seminar on "Training for Internationalisation" in order to expose Central and Eastern European countries to general and specific training needs as they prepare to meet their obligations under the Europe Agreements. This publication contains those papers presented at the seminar.
14-March-2014
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This publication has been used as the basic framework for many SIGMA reviews of draft civil service legislation in Central and Eastern European countries. Yet the Checklist stands by itself as a practical document defining a professional, impartial and permanent civil service in legal terms.
14-March-2014
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This publication is a tool for designers of new civil service pension schemes in Central and Eastern Europe. It presents civil service pension schemes in five OECD Member countries and ten Central and Eastern European countries.
14-March-2014
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This publication is the product of a seminar on budgeting and controlling personnel costs which SIGMA organised in March 1996 in Paris. Drawing in particular on the experience of EU Member countries, the seminar enabled participants to compare different types of budgeting and monitoring, their respective advantages and disadvantages, as well as their prerequisites regarding institutions and procedures.
14-March-2014
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The information contained in this report is essential to the efforts by countries in transition, working in collaboration with the donor community, to develop demand-driven training strategies, efficient structures for civil service training, and cost-effective and sustainable training activities. It is the product of a project which SIGMA started in autumn 1995.