All posts tagged "civil service reform"

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  ‘Business as usual is no longer acceptable’: Nigeria’s civil service head sets out how to rejuvenate, innovate and accelerate

  The head of the civil service of the federation of Nigeria has hailed the launch of “a movement of renewal, creativity and bold progress in public service” at the International

  • Posted June 26, 2025
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  Why are civil services so hard to reform?

  Many countries in the global south have run into difficulty when trying to reform their bureaucracies. So, how can countries become more successful at implementing change? By looking beyond the

  • Posted November 1, 2023
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  Labour tasks former department chief with devising UK government revamp

  The UK’s opposition Labour party is to develop plans to rewire how government works to deliver on its priorities if it takes power following an election that is expected to

  • Posted August 28, 2023
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  Republicans could politicise 50,000 civil service jobs, US academic warns

  A Republican president would revive Trump’s bid to take powers to dismiss any civil servant involved in policy work, a leading American academic has said at an event on civil

  • Posted July 12, 2023
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  Learning from global experiences: transforming public administration through senior civil service reforms

  A review of international best practice by the New South Institute reveals a number of key principles countries need to follow to improve the work of their governments The challenge

  • Posted July 4, 2023
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  New salvos fired in the wars of Whitehall

  British ministers have been clashing with civil servants over Brexit and bullying – with some pushing for greater powers to appoint officials. At an Institute for Government debate, however, panellists

  • Posted May 24, 2023
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  Select IT staff exempt from Canadian government return-to-office mandate; US revitalises agency internship programmes: workforce & management news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian federal government exempts some IT workers from return-to-office rules The Canadian federal government

  • Posted January 26, 2023
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  Building blocks: lessons from the global south on reforming the architecture of government

  A major conference examined the lessons for good governance from countries in the global south, ranging from Brazil and Peru to Indonesia. Rafael Leite and Ivor Chipkin from the Government

  • Posted January 4, 2023
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  ‘Bureaucrats need to be fireable’: Republican lawmakers propose stripping US federal officials of employment protections

  A group of US lawmakers from the Republican Party have introduced a bill that would make it easier for the president to remove a host of nonpartisan officials from their

  • Posted August 1, 2022
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  ‘Help others as you climb the ladder, as your path will surely cross again’: five minutes with… the Development Bank of Latin America’s Carlos Santiso

  Carlos Santiso is the director of digital innovation in government at the Development Bank of Latin America, and is based in Colombia. He shares his thoughts on reforming developing countries’

  • Posted April 25, 2022
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