Public Management

Public Management

Sustainable and equitable growth depends also on the quality and efficiency of public policies and management. As experience in the region has shown, without public policies that are fiscally responsible and sustainable, macroeconomic stability will be affected, undermining efforts for the development of production and poverty reduction. Strengthening accountability mechanisms provides incentives for efficiency in public policies and management and constitutes not only the best preventative measure against fiscal imbalances, but also the only way to satisfy social and economic needs that are indispensable for promoting sustainable and equitable growth. A particular priority is to adapt resource allocation systems so that they respond to the needs of the disadvantaged and adapt public service provision systems, enabling participation and direct involvement. In order to achieve the above, it is indispensable to overcome the politization of public administration and its ?capture? by particular interests, that results in the phenomena of clientalism and cronyism that are the causes of inefficiency, corruption and distortion of state actions and policies. Public administrations ought to form the institutional platform for the formulation and implementation of public policies that respond to the general interest of society, with complete subordination to the law. Administrative institutions in the countries should be strengthened, not only for the importance that they have in and of themselves, but also because their solidity is a necessary condition to make investments profitable in any policy sector.

To that regard, the State, Governance and Civil Society Division will support programs and projects that: (i) develop and strengthen civil service systems according to merit and flexibility criteria; (ii) develop the fiscal capacity of the state and improve the efficiency and transparency of expenditure management; (iii) modernize the capacity for the strategic coordination of the elaboration of strategies and public policies, and (iv) use the potential of the information and knowledge technology society.