The Awards for 2013 will be bestowed in the following five categories: 1. Preventing and Fighting Corruption in the Public Service 2. Improving the Delivery of Public Services 3. Fostering Participation in Policy-making Decisions through Innovative Mechanisms 4. Promoting Whole-of-Government Approaches in the Information Age 5. Promoting Gender Sensitive Public Service Delivery
The nomination form must be completed online on the UNPAN portal at www.unpan.org/applyunpsa2013 where a thorough explanation of the nomination process, the online application form, and information about previous UNPSA winners are available. The winners of the 2013 UNPSA will be recognized on 23 June 2013 during the celebration of the United Nations Public Service Day.
This book aims to demonstrate that various creative and smart routes to excellent solutions are possible, by analysing success stories in different areas of local public management from seven European cities in the EPSA scheme – Bilbao (ES), Birmingham (UK), Mannheim (DE), Milan (IT), Tallinn (EE), Tampere (FI), and Trondheim (NO). It concludes by presenting seven steps leading to excellence. The only thing left to find out is: are other cities ready to take on the challenge?
What kind of ideas are behind the remodelling of the state and public sector, and how have these ideas materialized in practice? In this book the authors illustrate what are the driving forces behind the huge amount of public management reforms over the last three decades. Trends and ideas of public management reforms in practice are validated by data from European Public Sector Award cases (2009 and 2011).