POSSIBILITIES FOR STRENGTHENING THE POTENTIAL OF THE CENTRE OF GOVERNMENT SANDRA BRIGGS, SAFEGE BALTIJA

Purpose of the Project How countries understand a concept of the Centre of Government and why we need such a concept? What are the main problems faced by CoG? What are the main instruments for problem solving? What are the main future challenges? 2

Centre of the Government Size and Structure Prime Minister’s Office Government Office State/Federal Chancellery General Secreteriat One central entity Ministry of Finance Ministry of Justice Ministry of General Affairs Ministry of Public Administration Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government Office for Legislation Government Communications Office General policy and legal coordination secretariat Etc. Configuration of Multiple Stakeholders 3

4 4 main areas of action Steering Overall Policy Making Managing Performance and Programs Reinventing Government Supporting the Cabinet

Dominant Functions of the Centre of Government 5

Dominant horizontal coordination instruments 6

Intersectoral strategies and programmes are always developed if CoG performs national strategic planning function (BG, IT, PT, MT, IE); Most often CoG cooperates with other institutions during synchronisation of the policy planning and budget preparation processes (14 out of 28); Scope of coordination has increased in 23 countries, mostly due to strengthening of strategic management function and coordination of implementation of government priorities. Some observations regarding usage of horizontal coordination instruments 7

Coordination meetings are mostly used during the policy formulation and decision making processes; Informal meetings are popular during the preparation of agenda; 11 out of 12 countries, which noted usage of ad-hoc groups during policy evaluation phase assessed the role of CoG in development of intersectoral strategies as active; 17 countries, which assessed the role of CoG as active during policy evaluation phase use results of different researches; Only 6 countries (IE, FI, DK, AT, LU, SK), as well as EC use results of researches during the preparation of agenda. Usage of communicative instruments 8

Cross-tabulated impact of CoG and PM in policy coordination process 9

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