A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Mamadou Dia. This book was released on 1993-01-01. A Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inefficient civil service administrations are jeopardizing future development in many African countries. The reforms suggested in this paper would make these administrations more accountable, enforce the rule of law, and reward bureaucrats solely on their
Making Government an Effective Partner
Making Government an Effective Partner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Government an Effective Partner write by Mamadou Dia. This book was released on 2012. Making Government an Effective Partner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The paper previewed in this article focuses on the implementation of a long-term capacity building approach to civil service reform. It starts with a review of past World Bank support to civil service reform and confirms that the cost containment approach achieved neither fiscal stabilization nor efficiency objectives despite heavy political and social costs. The rather disappointing results are traced to the patrimonial character of the state whose features in the civil service context are: recruitment based on subjective and ascriptive criteria; public employment managed as a welfare system; pay levels that are unrelated to productivity; loyalty of officials to the person of the ruler rather than to the state; and formalism of administrative rules and procedures rather than the substance. The paper argues that the direction of improvement lies in improved governance; a broader approach to civil service reform. Improving governance would begin with an assessment of the institutional environment which determines the patrimonial profile of the country: high when all of these factors are absent, low when they are present. This would be followed by the adoption of a strategy for reform that could be a comprehensive approach, an enclave approach or a hybrid approach, depending on whether the country's patrimonial profile is high, low or average, respectively.
A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Mr.Ian Lienert. This book was released on 1997-12-01. A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper assesses a decade of experience in civil service reform in a sample of 32 sub-Saharan African countries. Many countries have made an important start towards reducing excessive staffing levels and the nominal wage bill, but less progress has been made in decompressing salary differentials in favor of higher-grade staff. In the CFA franc zone countries, real wages fell sharply after the 1994 devaluation, but the wage bill relative to tax revenue is still high in many countries. There is a need to consolidate quantitative first-generation reforms that contribute to macroeconomic stabilization. Equally important is the need to make progress on qualitative second-generation reforms, especially remuneration and promotion policies that reward performance and measures to improve civil service management. Such policies will require strong political commitment by governments.
Projectizing the Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform
Projectizing the Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Projectizing the Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform write by Rogerio Feital S. Pinto. This book was released on 1994. Projectizing the Governance Approach to Civil Service Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects
Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects write by Joseph R. A. Ayee. This book was released on 2008. Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
