All posts tagged "Accountability"

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  Trump administration moves to reform top federal officials’ performance reviews

  The Trump administration has proposed to reform the performance appraisal for senior officials to make fewer executives eligible for top marks and the highest annual bonuses. The move follows a

  • Posted May 6, 2025
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  Public sector bodies must learn lessons to avert major failures, says UK standards watchdog

  A new report from the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life has called for public sector organisations to get better at recognising and responding to early warning signs of

  • Posted April 7, 2025
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  Defeating disinformation: how to create a healthier national conversation

  Bad actors are poisoning the information well from which populations drink in the democratic world. In the final part of our investigation into overseas interference in elections, Matt Ross asks

  • Posted February 11, 2024
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  Developers to share AI safety tests with US government; Canada launches tech talent recruitment platform: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. AI developers to begin sharing safety test results with US government The US federal government

  • Posted February 8, 2024
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  ‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agenda

  Priorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and

  • Posted July 3, 2023
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  Letter from Ottawa: an exhausting year shows the limits of foresight and the comfort of hindsight

  Accountability in government is important – but hindsight must be used to help build resilience and capacity in the public sector, not make politicians and public servants even more risk

  • Posted December 13, 2022
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  Former Australian PM slammed by inquiry into secret appointments  

  The decision of former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison to appoint himself to five additional departments in secret was “unnecessary” and “corrosive of trust in government”, an inquiry has found.

  • Posted November 30, 2022
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  Former UK Cabinet Office minister launches review into civil service governance and accountability

  Francis Maude has launched a review into the efficiency and effectiveness of the UK civil service, focusing on leadership responsibility and autonomy and models of accountability. Maude oversaw wide-ranging reforms

  • Posted July 31, 2022
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  UK government seeks international best practice on civil service accountability

  The UK government has begun a review into the best governance and accountability models for the civil service, with the aim to identify examples from around the world that could

  • Posted March 10, 2022
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  Averting climate catastrophe: how can civil servants help deliver COP26 commitments?

  Now the hubbub of COP26 delegations have left Glasgow, pledges made, and deals struck, attention has turned to what happens next. At a Global Government Forum webinar, climate experts discussed

  • Posted December 13, 2021
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