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Towards Government at a GlancePresentation for
the regional high-level capacity building
seminarMANAGING THE PERFORMANCE AND REINFORCING
THE INTEGRITY OF CIVIL SERVANTSÉcole Nationale
dAdministrationRabat, 24-25 May 2007

• by Jürgen Blum, OECD

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WHY WORK TOWARDS GOVERNMENT AT A GLANCE?
...to guide public management reforms

• formulating policy recommendations
• identifying good practices

GaG provides the evidence basis for
by providing a common language, GaG can support

• individual countries to do robust benchmarking
  with common units of analysis
• lessons-learning of OECD and non-member countries
  concerning

• Sector efficiency and institutional effectiveness
• Observed relationships
• Absorptive capacity

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WHAT DATA ARE COVERED BY GOVERNMENT AT A GLANCE?
Types of data

• government revenues
• inputs
• processes
• outputs and outcomes

• Wide coverage of public management aspects

• Human resources management
• Ethical infrastructure and oversight
• Public Sector Procurement
• Fiscal and budgeting practices
• Governance Structure

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EXAMPLE 1 Process HRM Arrangements - Openness
of government posts
Source OECD (2004), Trends in Human Resources
Management Policies in OECD countries An
analysis of the results of the OECD survey on
strategic human resouces management, Paris
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EXAMPLE 2Process Management of Regulatory
QualityStrategies used to reduce administrative
burdens (P 32.3)
Number of Countries
Source OECD (2006), Indicators of regulatory
management systems quality, Paris.
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HOW DOES GOVERNMENT AT A GLANCE COMPARE TO OTHER
GLOBAL DATASETS?
 
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WHAT COULD BE THE BENEFITS OF GOVERNMENT AT A
GLANCE FOR ARAB COUNTRIES?

• Government at a Glance could provide the basis
  for

• Evidence-based policy making
• Making objective reform progress visible to
  national and international stakeholders
• Building regional evaluation capacity
• Lesson-learning and identifying good practices
  among Arab and OECD countries a common language

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WHAT COULD BE THE NEXT STEPS TOWARDS GOVERNMENT
AT A GLANCE?

• Mapping out the existing data
• Focus on a core set of the most relevant data
• Pilot-approach based on a few interested
  countries

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QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

• What is the rationale for obtaining better
  specific measures of institutional arrangements
  and activities from your countrys perspective?
• What are the priority areas of interests for
  obtaining better government data?
• How could the preparation and collection of this
  data be managed realistically in the GFD process?