Public Service Leadership & Management

UK Treasury and Cabinet Office urged to help senior officials stand up to ministers

Britain’s public spending watchdog has called on the Treasury and Cabinet Office to help permanent secretaries stand up to ministers over the poor use of the taxpayer’s pound after it found that incentives […]

New Zealand’s top official Iain Rennie to step down in June

New Zealand’s most senior civil servant is to step down from his role. State services commissioner Iain Rennie will leave the public service on 30 June this year at the […]

Shared Services Canada heavily criticised in audit report

The organisation tasked with consolidating 485 Canadian government data centres into seven and moving 43 organisations from separate email services to a one single email platform in a shared services […]

Tanzanian officials suspended over corruption investigation

Officials of a national electronic identification-card project in Tanzania have become the latest victims of President John Magufuli’s anti-corruption drive. Magufuly suspended the director general of the National Identification Authority […]

Mauritius good governance law can inspire other countries, says Commonwealth official

Legislation passed in Mauritius to combat corruption and promote good governance could provide valuable lessons for other countries, the deputy secretary-general of the Commonwealth Secretariat Dr Josephine Ojiambo has said. […]

Rules and processes in Canada’s public service ‘overly complex’ and developed ‘from top down’, public servants say

Processes and rules in Canada’s public service have been created “from the top down” and are “overly complex”, incoherent and inconsistent, according to public servants who took part in Canada’s Blueprint 2020 initiative. […]

Nordic countries perform best in global corruption ranking

Denmark, Finland and Sweden are the least corrupt countries according to an annual ranking. This year’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), ranks 168 countries based on how corrupt their public sector […]

Global public sector corruption ranking to be launched this week

Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) will be launched in London on Wednesday. The annual index, which ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is […]

Janice Charette to be replaced as Canada’s top official tomorrow

Janice Charette will be temporarily replaced as Canada’s top civil servant by her deputy Michael Wernick tomorrow. Wernick’s appointment as clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the Cabinet […]

World Bank official to lead Open Government Partnership

A World Bank official will this year take up the leadership of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), the international initiative to promote government transparency, accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Sanjay […]