Improving the performance of administrative reforms

What is it about?

The proposed approach takes into account two principles. the systemic law of the "required variety" according to which the regulatory mechanisms internal to a system must be as varied as the environment with which it tries to compose. The accepted principle that each country must develop its own national and local solutions to solve its governance problems. The presentation of the World Bank strategy highlights the importance and urgency of adopting such a perspective to address public service performance problems around the world.

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Why is it important?

Drawing lessons from the past experiences of administrative reforms and the requirements of applying the results-based management approach, the article focuses on practices in regulating the actual workflow of public policy , that of actors on the ground, as opposed to planned work or prescribed in administrative guidelines. The approach advocated makes it possible to face conflicts and contradictions that are consubstantial with the dynamics of the concrete systems of action that are the organizational arrangements adopted to carry out the defined work and to solve problems of interpretation of meaning at the political- administration of strategic steering of public services in general, local administration in particular.

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