Key contributions during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis

 

The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic required quick and multi-faceted policy responses. Measures were introduced by governments that led to more or less intensive lockdown of economies and produced massive, negative, micro and macroeconomic effects.

Further to a discussion with the European Commission, SIGMA experts decided to support the growing challenges faced by their EU Enlargement and European Neighbourhood partners in addressing urgent needs with regard to the functioning of the government and the public administration. Advice was provided by internal and external SIGMA experts, and analytical overviews were carried out in the following policy areas: centre of government and policy co-ordination, civil service and human resource management, accountability, service delivery and public financial management, including public procurement.

The following preliminary contributions were collected using publicly available information and informal insights. They aim to provide effective solutions to deal with the crisis, they might also serve as a source of inspiration for studying the transformative effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the future.

 

Strategic framework of public administration reform

An approach for the re-prioritisation of the public administration reform agenda in response to COVID-19 (July 2020) Public administration: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic - Mapping the EU member States' public administration responses to the COVID-19 pandemic I L'administration publique face au COVID-19 - Cartographie des réponses des États membres de l'UE (1-7 April 2020) Also take a look at our events organised in the area of strategic framework of public administration.

 

Public financial management, public procurement and external audit

Risk assessment guidelines COVID-19 (SIGMA, March 2021) I Evaluation of the internal control system (Annex I) I Public financial management risk assessment tool (Annex III) Public financial management responses to coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Western Balkans (November 2020) Application of public procurement rules during the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of the European Union's procurement directives and the Government Procurement Agreement I Application des règles relatives aux marchés publics durant la crise du COVID-19 dans le cadre des directives européennes et de l’accord sur les marchés publics (April 2020) Also take a look at our events organised in the area of public financial management, public procurement and external audit.

 

Public service and human resource management

Teleworking survey: Learning from the COVID-19 crisis (July 2020) Human resource management in the context of coronavirus (COVID-19) - Inventory of ideas for civil service authorities, human resource units and line managers (9 July 2020) I Arabic Guidelines for preparing post-confinement roadmaps for public bodies (11 May 2020) - Annex on service delivery (5 June 2020) I Lignes directrices concernant l’élaboration de feuilles de route post-confinement pour les organismes publics  - Annexe sur la prestation de services I Guidelines in Arabic Online recruitment to the civil service in Albania as a response to the COVID-19 crisis (May 2020) I Annex 2 I Annex 3 (Albanian) I Annex 4 Also take a look at our events organised in the area of public service and human resource management.

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