By:Edwin B.R. Gbargaye

Professor: Jo B. Bitonio DM 212 Human Resource Management

& Development

• Many concepts in public sector innovation

came from a reform movement known as “New

Public Management” or “Reinventing

Government”

• Most students of governmental reform

credit for beginning this movement to Margaret

Thatcher who came to office in 1979 in Great

Britain

Introduction

• For others the challenge outmoded

bureaucracies and bring them into the

information age

• In some countries this movement has been

called reinventing government

• To other countries, it is referred to as building

state capacity or modernization of the State

• To some countries this is named New Public

Management

• For some countries government reforms

and innovations involves the reform of the

old bureaucracies in the context of a

newly democratic state.

• For other countries this entails an all out

fight against corruption

• the reform aim to increase the

efficiency and effectiveness of

public action, to reduce costs

and put an end to the supposed

power of bureaucracies

• Government reforms are not easy

• It disrupts established relationships and

behavior

• World’s nation engaged in serious efforts

to reform their government and inject a

culture of innovation into their

government bureaucracies

•

* American governmental reform was largely due to public dissatisfaction with government

* European Union was mandated to reform due to its vision & mission

* Former Soviet Bloc administrative reform went hand in hand with democratization and political reform

* Latin America was repeated economic crises the failure of 'primera generacion' of reforms to achieve economic stability

• Survey conducted in 1999 found that during the last two decades:

• 40 % of the world's 123 countries had at least one major reform movement

• 15 % had some public management reforms but no national level initiatives

• 22 % of the world's largest countries had 2 or more reform movements.

• Most of the major latin american countries have had one major reform especially with 'modernization of the state'

1. 1980’s – Government concentrated on economic liberalization and on privatization of state owned industries

2. 1990’s – focus on the administrative reform of core state functions and the building of state capacity

Two Phases:

A. Malaysia - Asia

B. France - Europe

C. Liberia - Africa

D. Mexico - Latin America

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

• Administrative Reforms

• Creation of a development administration

• Improvement of government's education and

training program

• Strengthening of professional competence of the

civil service

• Performance Appraisal

• Privatization

• Information Technology

French President Nicolas Sarkozy

•Reviewing of Public Policies

•Leadership Role

•Council of Modernization of

Public Policies

•Council d'Etat

•

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

'A New Era of Democracy‘

Today, we wholeheartedly embrace this change. We recognize that this change is not for the sake of change, but a fundamental break with the past, ... Corruption erodes faith in government because of the mismanagement and misapplication of public resources,...corruption is a national cancer. under my administration corruption is declared as 'public enemy number one'.

January 6, 2006

• Reform in the executive authority

• Restructuring of the national security

• Participatory government

• Civil service reform

• Downsizing and rightsizing the civil service

• Judiciary reform

• Constitutional reform

President Felipe Calderon

• Good governance

• Rule of law

• transparency

• accountability

• small and effective bureaucracy

• Peoples' participation

• Citizen’s Charter

• Qualified staff and personnel

• Streamline bureaucracy

• Regulatory reform

“ one of the fundamental ingredients of the new

governance is good government. A

government close to society, always ready to

listen to it; a government fully respectful of

legality, honest, transparent and efficient; but

above all, a government conscious of its

mission of promoting human and social

development as the basis for attaining a more

just and prosperous society”

President Vicente Fox of Mexico

2000-2006

As Obama often

says – “ a new era

of reform where

there will be a

progressive

mobilization to keep

the pressure on

and overcome

entrenched

interests” . . .

• Dr. Elaine C. Karmarck

Government Innovation

Ash Institute for Democratic Governance & Innovation

J.F.K SG., Harvard University November 2003

• Zifack, 1994

• Kickert, 2000

• Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000

• Fauroux, Spitz, 2000

• Centre de recherches politiques de la sorbomue

(CPRS), University of Paris1/ CNRS

Dreyfus, FRtrancois, 2008