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Support to the Reform of the Government and Central Organs of Executive Power
November 1999 - March 2002
Ukraine

Name of client:	Cabinet of Ministers
Origin of funding:	European Commission, Tacis
Project value:	€ 2,200,000
Name of partners:	HAUS, Kyiv Consulting Group, Bossers Training Development Int.

Services provided:

Project management and leadership of the consortium

Organisation of conferences, workshops, seminars

Provision of comparative research studies

Policy advice and technical expertise

Assistance in drafting legislation

Training of 135 civil servants in a three-week programme on administrative reform,

strategy and policy, human resource management, finance, consultancy and

team-building skills

Organisation of 20 one-week study tours and 34 two-week internships

Establishment of an extensive network between the Ukrainian government and 160

government bodies in 11 EU and Central European countries

Description of project
A major, complex project on implementing administrative reform through the provision of inter-active policy advice, operational support and training. 135 senior civil servants from 16 central government bodies participated in developing and implementing recommendations to improve the accountability, effectiveness and efficiency of their institutions with the support of expert practitioners and consultants from EU, Poland and Ukraine.
Key topics developed intensively in the course of the project across government bodies were:

Improving the co-ordination mechanisms for European integration within the Presidential

Apparat, the Government Secretariat and the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Foreign

Affairs and Justice.

Clarifying the role and function of the new state secretaries (highest civil servant in each

ministry) with the Presidential Administration, the Government Secretariat and

selected ministries

Improving the performance of the Government Committees within the Government

Secretariat and key ministries

Working with the Main Administration of the Civil Service to improve human resource

management, including objective recruitment, performance management and

remuneration systems.

Other topics focused on:

Drafting amendments to the Administrative Code with the Ministry of Justice and the

Parliament

Developing an Executive Information Web-Portal for the Government Secretariat

Realigning the structure and functions of the Anti-Monopoly Committee with European

standards

Developing regional policies for the financing of social services with the Ministries of

Finance, Education and Social Policy and Labour.

The project was highly evaluated by the Ukrainian Government, the European Commission and the World Bank, in particular for its participatory approach, the effectiveness of its policies, the sustainability of its recommendations and the ability of its participants to promote and implement change in their organisations.