The nomination form must be completed online on the UNPAN portal at: www.unpan.org/applyunpsa2015 where submission rules and the online application form are available in six official languages of the United Nations. UNPSA winners are recognized each year on 23 June, which is the designated United Nations Public Service Day.
Nomination Awards for 2015are invited in four categories:
1) Improving the Delivery of Public Services;
2) Fostering Participation in Policy-making Decisions through Innovative Mechanisms;
3) Promoting Whole-of-Government Approaches in the Information Age and
4) Promoting Gender Sensitive Public Service Delivery.
For more information about the award, please see http://unpan.org/unpsa.
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).