Capacity Building in Public Management in the Times of Economic Uncertainty and Social Stress
Abstract
The roles and functions of the state in contemporary societies, cultures and economies
have expanded to respond to numerous present-day challenges including that of coping
with fiscal stress, economic recession and instability. These challenges have accelerated
the need for development of more effective, and in some cases less costly, state and
public institutional management capacity to recognize, plan, decide and implement
workable and politically feasible solutions. Capacity building and development of core
public management systems is needed to strengthen the ability of the state to generate
methodologies, strategies, and actions to assist public and private sector organizations,
communities and individuals in improving performance in the design and delivery of a
wide variety of assistance programs and services. This has required and will require in
the future enhanced leadership on the part of public officials, increased accountability
of public managers and management systems and greater focus on the integrity of governance,
economic and social institutions. Recent events clearly demonstrate that development
of public management system capacity must be based on a clearer awareness
of the growing complexity of global economies and the need for carefully coordinated
strategies and innovative approaches to cope with the challenges at hand.
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