Public Administration Reform – Publications

• Rebuilding state structures: methods and approaches

• Civil Service Reform - Experience of Transition

Inclusive Policy Processes – Publications

• Thinking the Unthinkable: From thought to policy

• How to build inclusive policy process: Institutionalising the dialogue between governmental and non-governmental actors

4) ICT for Development - Projects • Support to the development of Regional and

National ‘e-strategies for government’ – Electronic South East Europe with the

Stability Pact

• E-Governance Academy

5) Other Areas - Projects• Protecting the

Unprotected: Asylum Seekers and Refugees

• Conflict Prevention & Early Warning

• Project Blue Bird

Project Spotlight: Project Blue Bird

• Activities: focusing academic expertise on big policy issues in South East Europe– “Future of nation state” network supported by MATRA

since 2001– Network of CEE, SEE academics, policy makers

generated policy papers in series of conferences

• Outputs:– Two policy papers on “state weakness” published in

2002– Book on policy implications out by late 2003

• Next phase: blue bird phase II

Key Partners • MATRA (Netherlands)• Norwegian Government• Estonian Government• SIDA (Swedish Trust

Fund) • Czech Government• Slovak Government• CIDA (Canada) Open

Society Institute

• Local Governance Initiative

• Center for Policy Studies• World Bank Institute• Stability Pact

Thank You for Your Attention!

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Lisa.Smirl@undp.org

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Sergei.Sirotkin@undp.org

www.undp.sk

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