The Turning World Globalisation and Governance at the Start of the 21st Century docx

[...]... left blank The Turning World: Globalisation and Governance at the Start of the 21st Century G Bertucci and M Duggett (Eds.) IOS Press, 2002 17 The Case of Africa Jean-Marie Atangana Mebara Introduction Since independence in the nineteen sixties, African public administrations have been through many changes, in terms of both their orientations and objectives and their organisation and structure They have... another, where the keywords are: withdrawal of the State, decentralisation, autonomy and responsibility G Timsit / The Case of Continental Europe 27 All of the countries of Europe have effectively unanimously adopted the idea of the need to reform the structures of the State in line with the idea of the "Lean State" All call for or have undertaken to reduce the size and weight of the State, either... reiterated the key words of his vision and his priorities, namely instilling rigour and morality into the management of public affairs; the Prime Minister, the Head of the Government, is the leader of the National Governance Committee, as well as the National Observatory for combating corruption It is also expected that the wide-ranging decentralisation stipulated in the 1996 Constitution (with the creation... that they were recruited to serve their personal interests and those of their families by using the public administration As a result, one of the first (structural) challenges for such administrations is that of their internalisation, i.e their appropriation by the public, users and the people so that they recognise and accept them as an entity concerned for and working for the general interest, the. .. international organisations, who want to improve African public administrations, should be to start by creating entities that are perfectly and definitively integrated into the socio-cultural environment, in the minds of groups and in individual and collective life This is surely no longer simply the business of the administrative sciences alone The Turning World: Globalisation and Governance at the Start. .. The first generation of administrative reform is that type of reform that was very much in fashion in the 1960's and 1970's That involved a regrouping of State functions, division into major blocks of authority and reform of personnel in Civil Service The second generation is what might be called the New Public Management and there is that other side of the coin, an American term, the Reinvention of. .. governing their personal interests" There is therefore a real gap between the African public administrations and citizens/users, and a misunderstanding between these public administrations and the officials that serve them: it is as if we presume that the public official, at the time of their recruitment would automatically adhere to the general principles underpinning the public administration (see... the lifestyle of the administrations and refraining from creating new administrations The ineffectiveness of these measures forced them all to turn to the international financial institutions (IMF /World Bank) Their diagnosis was severe, and the accompanying therapies were a bitter pill In brief, the African Governments were persuaded to give the State a new role, that of a facilitator for the private... - strengthening legal security and judicial security; - intensifying the fight against corruption (creation of a National Observatory and ministerial units to combat corruption with balanced representation of the State and civil society) The main innovations in these NGPs are: their extension to all sectors of State intervention; the involvement in their elaboration and execution of players other than... a public good - who are in the eye of the storm of globalisation, at the centre of the turning world, in that way Guido Bertucci speaks about this: Unfortunately we have gone through a number of years where the public service has been somehow denigrated as being considered as a lower-end job without the glamour of jobs in the other areas of the economy, whether in the private sector, or entertainment . alt="" THE TURNING WORLD This page intentionally left blank ST/ESA/PAD/SER.E/40 The Turning World Globalisation and Governance at the Start of the . intentionally left blank The Turning World: Globalisation and Governance at the Start of the 21st Century G. Bertucci and M. Duggett (Eds.) IOS