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Training and capacity
Building for Good Governance
Jacek Czaputowicz
Director of National School of
Public Administration, PolandRome, 13-14 October 2008
Content of the Content of the PresentationPresentation
• Good Governance Model in comparison with Alternative Models
• Implications for training in Public Administration
• Is training in Public administration in accordance with requirements of Good Governance?
Governance
• Governance refers to administrative activities conducted by civil services (narrow definition)
• May encompass regulatory activities (broad definition)
• Refers to tools used by governments, principles of operation and interactions between politics and the market
• State abandons authoritarian role and assumes the role of a partner and mediator of contradictory interests
The Weberian Model
• The traditional bureaucratic model derives from Weber’s concept of rational administration
• Characterized by:– a clear division of roles, – reliance on procedures, – strict financial control, – hierarchy and – supervision of the central agency
• Civil servants perform their duties, submit to official discipline and follow a career path
New Public Management
• Draws from the private sector, market mechanisms
• Promotes competition among service providers, delegates competences and control to local communities
• Administration concentrates on the results, objectives and the mission
• Citizens are clients, choice between schools, training programs or residence options
Good Governance • Social context in the reform of public
administration• Assumes that the spheres of business and
public administration are essentially different
• They should be organized and function in a different manner
• Requires society’s trust in the government• Encompasses the principles of
transparency, personal honesty, high ethical standards, observance of laws, accountability, and accessibility
A comparison of governance models
CriteriaBureaucratic
modelNew Public
ManagementGood Governance
Method ofmanagement
Hierarchy Market Network
Normative base Administrative law Contracts Conventions
Management styleBureaucratic –administering
Managerial –managing
Partnership –consulting
Character ofrelation
Domination andsubordination
Competition andco-operation
Equality andinterdependence
Aim of activityConsolidation oforder
Provoking changeBuilding socialconsultation
Orientation ofactivity
Procedures Results Needs
State organizationMonocentricsystems
Autonomous systems Civil society
Implications for training
• NPM introduced new types and methods of training
• Training became homogenized• Many techniques and skills are
valuable• Good Governance requires very
challenging system of training
Good Governance principles
•Consensus building•Citizen participation•Increasing accountability •Transparency•Freedom of Information•Effectiveness•Efficiency•Inclusiveness and equitability in
treatment•Respect for the rule of law
Training for Good Governance
• Behavior according to these principles may require change in legal regulations governing civil servants
• In most cases change of attitudes and behavior within existing law
• Imaginative design and integration of training programs
• Requires “unlearning“ of old values and behavior and learning new set of values and behavior
• Reduce democratic deficit and to support equality
Conclusions• Does training prepare civil servants to act
in the way required by Good Governance?• In Poland cultural and historical
background to overcome (communist heritage)
• PA programmes are within faculties of Law and Administration
• Programs are law oriented, not management oriented
• They petrify traditional model, prepare civil servants to act in burocratic way