Modernising Governments Across The World

These links will take you to the sites of government departments and non-governmental organisations concerned with modernising public administration across the world.

We would welcome any additional links to the site.  Please email 
Tim Dymond 

There is also an extensive list of links specifically on Best Practice in the Best Practice area of the site. 

European Union

European Commission - Everything about current reforms in the EU

European Benchmarking Network

Austria

Federal Ministry of Finance (in German)

Belgium

Federal Civil Service Ministry (in French or Flemish).

Denmark

Ministry of Finance (in English)

EIRE (see Republic of Ireland)

Finland

Ministry of Finance (in English, Finnish or Swedish) 

France

Ministry of Civil Service, State Reform and Decentralisation – Inter ministerial Delegation for State Reform (in French)

Mission for the development of the use of Information and Telecommunication Technologies in public administrations (in French, with automatic translation into English) http://www.mtic.pm.gouv.fr/mission/

Public sector best practice database

Last, but not least, Service-Public, the French equivalent for UK Online

Germany

Interior Ministry’s Modern State site (in German) 

You may also be interested in German Landers’ web sites. Most of them have been devised of late and are very innovative. Bavaria's is available in English and in French, http://www.innenministerium.bayern.de/

Some experiments of online services are also available: 

http://www.lvf.bayern.de/ is one interesting example among many.

In Baden-Wurtemberg, a very well devised site is devoted to public works, explaining to citizens what is going on in that field http://www.bauausschreibungen-online.de/

Last but not least, a site dedicated to state efficiency http://www.effizienter-Staat (information in English)

Lately, I found an new German web site devoted to best practice and benchmarking http://www.leistungsvergleich.de/

Greece

Interior Ministry (in Greek, but an English version is under construction) 

Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government (in Greek or English)

Holland (see Netherlands)

Ireland (see Republic of Ireland)

Italy

Information available on the public service Ministry’s web site.  http://www.lavoropubblico.com/ (in Italian)

and interesting experiments on the regions web site http://www.regioni.it/

Luxembourg

Administrative Reform Bureau (in French or German) http://www.etat.lu/MFP/bureaura.htm

Netherlands

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (in Dutch) http://www.minbzk.nl/body.asp

See also http://www.postbus51.nl/  (in Dutch)

Portugal

Secretariat for Administrative Modernisation (in Portuguese) http://www.sma.pt/

A new web site offers users more information (in Portuguese). It has similarities  with the Austrian "help" web site http://www.infocid.pt/

Republic of Ireland (EIRE)

Committee for Public Management Research 

The Strategic Management Initiative

Spain

Ministry for Public Administration (in Spanish; click on the ‘administración pública’ or the ‘Libro Blanco para la mejora de los Servicios Públicos’ icons) http://www.map.es/ (in Spanish)

Sweden

Swedish Agency for Administrative Development (in Swedish or English) 

The Swedish National Financial Management Authority (ESV) is the government agency for financial management in Sweden. Its objective, as defined by the Government, is high quality financial management.  The site includes material on the Sweden-Slovenia Program on performance management.

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Argentina

The Secretary of Public Management http://www.info.gov.ar  

Australia

The Public Service and Merit Protection Commission  

Brazil

The Brazilian innovation awards programme is hosted on this interesting web site http://www.gv.br/ford/gpcindex.asp . Brazil is member of a kind of league of best practice with Chile, the Philippines and the USA. (in Portuguese, but some information available in English)

Chile

Reform in Chilean local administrations (in Spanish, but some information available in English)

http://www.ciudadania.uchile.cl/9.html Member of the same league of best practice as Brazil, with the Philippines and the USA.

Commonwealth

http://www.capam.comnet.mt/ Web site devoted to modernising public service in the Commonwealth.

Honk-Kong/China

http://www.info.gov.hk/eu/ Hong Kong efficiency unit.

Iceland

Government Offices of Iceland (in English)

Israel

The site of Ministry of finances with a link to the civil service commission http://www.mof.gov.il/englishframe.htm (in English)

Japan (in Japanese and in English)

http://www.kantei.go.jp/ web site of the Japanese prime minister, and 

Mexico (in Spanish or in English)

http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/index.html

New Zealand

States Service Commission

Norway

Directorate of Public Management (in Norwegian or English) 

Another interesting web site http://www.odin.dep.no/

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PUMA -- Public Management Committee & Public Management Service (in English or French) http://www.oecd.org/puma/

Philippines

A web site devoted to the "Galing Pook Quality Award" http://www.galingpook.org/ with links to Brazilian, Chilean and American web sites, which seem to be organised like a kind of league. This web site has an English version.

South Africa

Department for Public Service and Administration web site is at http://www.gcis.gov.za/gov/psa/psa.htm .   

A best practice web site http://www.impumelelo.org.za/

Switzerland

Federal Personnel Office (in French, German or Italian) http://www.personal.admin.ch/themen/vreform/f/index.htm

A new web site is devoted to exchanging best practices among local authorities http://www.gemeindereformen.unibe.ch/ (in German or in English)

Turkey

http://www.basbakanlik.gov.tr/html

United Nations 

http://magnet.undp.org/ Part of the site dedicated to public management across the world.

The United States of America

Vice President Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government.  The programme was officially closed 19 January 2001 but material is archived in a "cybercemetery". 

And http://www.innovation.harvard.edu/ , a web site about best practice with relevant links to its Brazilian, Chilean, Philippine and South African counterparts.

World Bank

http://www1.worlbank.org/publicsector/ Part of the web site dedicated to reforms in the public sector across the world.

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Cyprus

http://www.pio.gov.cy/ in English

Estonia

http://www.rk.ee/ in English

Hungary

http://www.meh.hu/ in English

Slovenia

http://www.ijs.si/slo/ in English. The virtual Slovenia web site.

Research groups on public management (all in English)

EES (European Evaluation) http://www.europeanevaluation.org/general/general.htm

Institute of public administration (Ireland)

And a review http://www.willamette.org/ipmn/research/journal/index.html

Disclaimer

The Cabinet Office is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked web sites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them.  We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over availability of the linked pages.

For comments and updates please contact Tim Dymond  or telephone 44 (0)20 7276 1712