EU for Public Administration Reform (EU4PAR)

This project has been designed to deepen and extend the support being provided to the Government of Serbia through the Sector Budget Support Programme to Public Administration Reform, which forms part of the PAR Sector Reform Contract (SRC). The project is part of the Complementary Support to the Sector Budget Support Programme.

This will support the on-going reforms within the public administration system in Serbia through the provision of policy advice, technical assistance and support to institutional and human resource capacity building. In particular, it will help to strengthen further the PAR strategic framework and the evidence-based policy making covering policy planning, analysis, coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

The project will contribute to further development of the general strategic framework for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the public administration reform including its underlying reform programmes. The Law on planning system of Serbia and accompanying by-laws regulate the substance and management processes for the public policy documents (PPDs) and regulations. The project is divided into three interlinked components.

The first component will focus on strengthening overall PAR coordination, monitoring and reporting mechanism, including in relation to the PAR SRC IPA 2022, and the capacity building of the reform proponents for coordinating, monitoring and conducting evaluations and ex post assessments of their policy planning documents. The project will also provide analysis of the effects of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) implementation in public bodies up to now, possibility of synergies of CAF/Quality Management (QM) with the internal control area and support in follow up of the QM Roadmap activities.

The second component targets support to evaluation - impact assessments of the ongoing policies’ implementation (2021-2025) aiming to underpin preparation of the new PAR Action plan for the period 2026-2030 including the e-Government (2026-2030) and new reform programmes for Improvement of public policies and regulatory reform (2026-2030) and Public finance management (2026-2030). In addition, support to coordination, reporting and development of the new Action plan for implementation of Government programme (APGIP) is envisaged. In this segment the project will also support ex-post analysis of civil service regulatory framework in the respective areas with recommendations for improvement.

Within the third component set of activities are planned to ensure further elaboration and implementation of the strategic framework for PAR visibility and communication within the PAR Strategy. Further, the project will support national proponents in planning and implementing annual PAR visibility and communication measures, including on EU support in this area. Particular attention shall be dedicated to the preparation, monitoring and implementation of the Annual PAR Visibility and Communication Operational Plans that relevant national institutions develop on annual basis.

The Working Group for Planning and Coordination of Communication of PAR related issues was formed at the beginning of 2023 and has close to 50 members, the so-called public relations (PR) network. The working group meets regularly and carries out joint actions and promotion activities in the field of PAR in order to intensify the PAR campaign and make the results more visible to public. Implementation of the Annual Operational Plan is envisaged to be monitored quarterly through the work of the subgroups. As defined, the work of the Working group may be organized in subgroups which consist of the institutions that are the bearers of activities planned for the quarter in question.

 


Last updated: March 26, 2025, 13:04