Europe

Searching for Professionalism: The Provision of Technical Assistance to CEE Countries during Their Transition Process
In the last four years we presented a number of papers at NISPAcee conferences and elsewhere on technical assistance to CEE-countries during the transition period. All those papers showed that something was very amiss in the process of technical assistance, be it on the side of the recipients, the foreign experts, the donor organizations or the governments that provide the money. The last paper in Kiev made many participants ask the question: "So, what needs to be done? What are your recommendations?" This paper intends to address these questions. Since the subject of our research was the search for professionalism, the first question is what is indicative for professionalism, how this differs from the practice of technical assistance and what can be done to reduce this gap. Hence it is not an empirical but a normative paper, based on the outcomes of previous empirical research.
27 August 2010

Decentralization Process in Romania
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27 August 2010

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Performance Indicators for the Greek State Audit & Control Mechanisms
The goal of this study is to introduce the methods for monitoring and evaluation, for the Audit and Control Mechanisms within the Hellenic Public Administration space, through the application of performance indicators. First, the study describes and analyses the framework within which qualitative and quantitative indicators will be used. It then goes on to present the performance indicators that were used, taking into consideration the peculiarities and the current state of the Hellenic Republic Administrative system. It concludes with the experience gained through the pilot application of performance indicators on the work produced for the Audit and Control Mechanisms of the Greek Public Administration.
27 August 2010