Heikkinen

Policy development and coordination in the new approach on Public Administration Reform 12th Eastern Partnership Panel on Public Administration Reform

Kiev

16 March 2017 Ritva Heikkinen Team Leader Centre of Thematic Expertise on PAR DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations European Commission

New approach on PAR

Enlargement strategy 2014-15: •"PAR is the third pillar of the enlargement process together with rule of law and economic governance" •Commission provides a definition of PAR for the first time •Same approach / requirements for all enlargement countries

European Neighbourhood Policy review 2015: •Same definition of PAR as in the enlargement context •Differentiation

"Comprehensive, inclusive, cross-cutting PAR"

PAR definition and implementation framework Public administration has five separate yet interlinked and mutually enhancing dimensions (core areas)

Principles of Public Administration • Developed by OECD/ SIGMA • Define each core area in detail by outlining the requirements for a well-functioning administration

Public administration reform is about having a medium-term strategic framework (one or several strategies) that addresses and sequences reforms within and between the different dimensions

Baseline assessments against the Principles of Public Administration • Benchmarking exercise to assess the gaps • Basis to develop (or update) a PAR strategy

Implementation of the new PAR approach in ENP East so far SIGMA partial BA in Georgia (2017/18)

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SIGMA BA in Ukraine, bilateral event Armenia (2017) Armenia EU PAR SBS (2016) Moldova PAR strategy (2016) Ukraine PAR and PFM strategies + EU PAR SBS (2016)

SIGMA bilateral event in Azerbaijan (2016) ENP Principles of Public Administration (2016)

Georgia PAR Roadmap + EU funded SBS (2015) SIGMA baseline assessment (BA) in Moldova (2015) ENP review (2015)

Policy development and coordination

Evaluation

Financially affordable policies

Communication

Impact assessments Monitoring Internal consultations Public consultations

Some observations • Countries with “legalistic” administrative culture tend to perform well on legal conformity and procedural aspects of CoG work…

• … But face challenges with policy planning aspects of CoG work: • Medium-term policy planning (i.e. bottom-up planning systems, implementation backlogs) • Financial affordability of policies (costing) • Sector policy planning (fragmentation, quality) • Monitoring (and evaluation) of government performance • Coordinating and managing inclusive and evidence-based policy and legislative development

CoG institutions have a big impact on how a government delivers its policy objectives

New PAR approach – impact on EU assistance in sectors

• EU financial assistance needs to produce more impact • EU Better Regulation Agenda • Increased focus in sector work on various areas of PAR that are crosscutting with sectors (especially Policy development and coordination) • For example, twinning and TA support to legislative development has traditionally focused on the content of legislation, but has rarely addressed weaknesses in the process of law-making: • Pre-law drafting stage (concept documents) • Weak inter-ministerial coordination • Weak impact assessments • Formalistic public consultations

"Comprehensive, inclusive, cross-cutting PAR"

Further information ENP review http:// eeas.europa.eu/archives/docs/enp/documents/2015/151118_joint-communication_review-o f-the-enp_en.pdf

Principles of Public Administration: http://www.sigmaweb.org/publications/principles-public-administration.htm

OECD/SIGMA baseline assessments against Principles: http://www.sigmaweb.org/publications/public-governance-monitoring-reports.htm

EU Better Regulation agenda: http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/better_regulation/key_docs_en.htm

EU Better Regulation Guidelines: http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/guidelines/toc_guide_en.htm

Interinstitutional agreement on better law-making: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1474895262798&uri=CELEX:32016Q0512(01)

Contact for further questions: Centre of Thematic Expertise on PAR DG NEAR.A3 – Thematic Support, Monitoring and Evaluation Email: NEAR-PAR@ec.europa.eu