All posts tagged "Reform"

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  UK government aims to tackle admin burden across public services

  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will this week set out plans to reduce public servants’ administration workload after a Treasury review found that some frontline staff spend a whole day a week

  • Posted November 20, 2023
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  New phase of reform for Australian Public Service underway, says minister

  An initial 12-month phase focusing on the design of the Australian Public Service (APS) reform agenda is complete and a second rebuilding phase is set to begin that aims to

  • Posted November 6, 2023
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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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  The digital souk: reforming procurement in Morocco

  Determined to increase transparency and competition in public procurement, Morocco’s government is pushing through an ambitious set of reforms. At the 2023 Global Government Finance Summit, the country’s finance chief

  • Posted October 22, 2023
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  Public servants have not been able to build defences for the next crisis, warns former Bank of England chief economist

  Leading economist and public policy expert Andy Haldane has warned that public servants have not had enough “relative tranquillity” to recover from more than a decade of crisis. In an

  • Posted October 19, 2023
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  ‘I always knew that my anchor was health’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with former UK health department chief, Dame Una O’Brien

  In this episode of Leading Questions, Una O’Brien, who was permanent secretary of the UK Department of Health between 2010 and 2016, joins podcast host Siobhan Benita for a chat

  • Posted August 10, 2023
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  In pursuit of public good: the need for a welfare revolution in South Africa

  Jelena Vidojević of the New South Institute argues that South Africa must introduce comprehensive welfare reform if it is to address socio-economic divisions and deliver for the public good South

  • Posted July 30, 2023
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  Integrity under threat: civil service ethics in the era of populism

  Populism left an indelible mark on the 2010s, and its hold in democracies remains strong. During a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed how civil servants can maintain legitimacy at

  • Posted July 27, 2023
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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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  ‘Find your references, your mirrors and your mentors’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with the Spanish government’s deputy director of learning, Israel Pastor Sainz-Pardo

  In this episode of Leading Questions, podcast host Siobhan Benita speaks know-how and knock-backs with the deputy director of learning at Spain’s National Institute of Public Administration. Israel Pastor has

  • Posted June 29, 2023
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