Efficiency innovation often assumes the form of a process improvement or a more efficient business model. Because these programmes failed to address the substantive inequalities between potential university students and in so doing merely confirmed, perhaps exacerbated rather than diminished, existing inequalities. Or for that matter, the riots in the suburbs of Paris overnight. Perhaps these increases in social disengagement (and we aren’t even counting child hood obesity in here) are a consequence of the growing income gaps some say has fuelled greater levels of economic growth. We came behind African countries such as Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Namibia, Uganda, and Cote d'Ivoire – It simply means we are losing our Star of Africa Status and that we have work to do in improving our Allocative and Technical Efficiencies. A face that punishes irresponsibilities without fear or favour, and a face that delivers Praise and reward, for the achievement of results whether short term or long. State and local governments can lead-by-example by promoting energy efficiency programs and policies for public facilities, equipment, and government operations through energy data management and evaluation, energy efficiency building standards for public buildings, enacting retrofit programs for existing public buildings, procuring energy-efficient appliances and equipment (including vehicles), and establishing energy efficiency … That biased recruitment preference, combined with the fact that Government is the single biggest employer of University Graduates – means that Government and by extension public sector will suddenly start to see the self-serving benefit in ensuring that one of the focus of Tertiary learning becomes Innovation. The myth of private sector superiority says that the private sector is efficient and dynamic, the public sector wasteful and slow; that the more we can get the private sector … Policy analysis is concerned primarily with policy alternatives that are expected to produce novel solutions. A compounding effect on the future of Australia’s work force, again, not just a social issue. Indeed, in some countries, the organizational landscape is regarded as untouchable and outside the scope of any review. Recent research carried out for the Department of Family and Community Services has found that there still remain significant barriers to fathers taking up family-friendly working provisions. I have often said 2 of the most effective ways to shape Professional Culture, whether around efficiency or delivering value to the public, whether in the Private or Public sector, is to have systems with 2 faces. Coherent Public Policy, my name for this approach, requires us to consider the impact of one policy on everything else. They say it’s not their fault that they haven’t been as involved with their children as the mother has. The basic idea within NPM is that the public sector can be made more efficient through adopting organizational structures from the public business sector and the private business sector (Busch, Johnson, & Vanebo, 2002). I am not suggesting that fighting over who does the dishes and who folds the laundry is solely responsible for our increasing divorce rate, but of the research that has been carried out, it has been shown that women who perceive their division of household labour as unfair are more likely to divorce and women are more likely than men to file for divorce10. President Trump came into office promising to make government run more like a business. How we manage aged policy will also have economic consequences for our children, who are the taxpayers and workers of tomorrow. While single men and women do around the same amount of housework, once they partner women begin doing more – a woman with a male partner does 71 minutes a day more housework than her partner; With the birth of a child, unpaid work more than doubles for men and women – men’s increases from 50 minutes to 2 ½ hours per day and women’s increases to just under 8 hours per day; Overall, women’s housework accounts for 70 per cent of all household work – including traditional male ‘outdoor’ tasks, Including childcare, fathers spend an average of 10.7 hours a day in paid and unpaid work, while women spend an average of 12.6 hours, In couple households where both women and men are employed full time, women do more than twice the amount of indoor household tasks than men – 14.3 hours compared to 6 average hours per week. From the outset, children in disadvantaged households are much more likely to do poorly at school, have difficulty finding work, and be unemployed, sick or disabled as adults, precipitating an intergenerational cycle of disadvantage. IMF staff regularly produces papers proposing new IMF policies, exploring options for reform, or reviewing existing IMF policies and operations. 4 hours ago, More than 100 arrested during anti security law protests in, Bright Philip Donkor: Enough of the vilification on Joy FM, Koku Anyidoho and President Mills Joined the Wrong Political, Prayer on vaccine: South Africa Should Call Justice Mogoeng, Former Museveni Minister Condemns Recent Election-Related Ma, Disregard Any Information On The Inauguration Of The Private, EU Election Observation Mission Ghana Statement, Emerging Public Leaders on Ghana's 2020 elections. That the public sector too must be an on- merit employer with a focus on outcomes rather than its own Byzantine internal processes protecting the well being of underperforming fat cats. But it is possible. The average amount of time spent in education has increased by a year per decade to a level of 11 ½ years across OEDC countries in 2000. A Relationships Australia survey found that 89% of Australian agreed that relationships suffer because of work and family conflict. Yet all are essential for SARD. Time use data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)1 and the Household Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA)2 tells us that: It is interesting to think about why the response to these kind of numbers has been so vehement. Perhaps because despite conversations in some quarters about the personal and political, Australian society generally went along with the changes for women at work, but left untouched the life at home. Slightly different to active policy but certainly an important part of policy coherence, especially in a federation as complex and regulated as ours. Innovation must not only be about the Operations, Machinery and Procedures needed to deliver better public services – it must also be about the decision making processes – for example what efficiency is delivered to the Ghanaian by any Government’s decision to have an entirely new CSSPS developed while a previously paid for version was running; innovation must also be about how money is raised to deliver public services for example what is the standard pricing module for charges within our Public Hospitals or better still, how can we monetize indiscipline; and by all means innovation must cover how relationships with citizenry who receive services are managed – for example, why should citizens seeking to procure public services be asked to give something small or made to feel they are being done a favour. Innovation in the public sector is not necessarily about finding entirely New ways of delivering services to the public – it is equally about improving current ways of getting things done. It offers excellent learning on how some achieved efficiency through innovation and what can be done by others to achieve same. The winners of today’s commendations are proof of that. Equity is more than a tool, it is also an end in itself. This widening of inequality in the distribution of market incomes is common to many OECD nations where income inequality is increasing and parts of the population continue to miss out on the benefits of economic growth. Newer services or better ways of delivering existing ones will practically require that non-value adding bureaucracies are removed, procedures are simplified yet secure, waste and idleness are cut down, duplicate responsibilities and duplicate staffing are corrected, spending justifications are enforced etc etc – These are the natural pressures that efficiency brings. While public transfers to families continue to remain important across the OECD in insuring against childhood disadvantage, active social policies combine a number of other critical ingredients. But there are such strong reasons for them to do so. Getting More Out of every Cediis for me the definition of Efficiency that has to be adopted by our Public Sector across board. My policy work as sex discrimination commissioner has very consciously promoted the linkages between gender equity and other aspects of the national interest. To not only make little change to the equity outcome, but to also diminish effectiveness and efficiency. Formal aged care needs alone are expected to increase by between 180 and 250 per cent of current expenditure in that time. In the National Budget for 2017, 2018 & 2019, Government expenditure alone makes up at least 20% of our entire GDP as a country – it therefore means that any agenda to improve nationwide productivity must start with the Public sector. There is no doubt that issues around unpaid work and caring in the home are the source of great deal of angst and discussion in families. By engaging with governments, companies can increase the impact of their CSR strategy and improve the sustainability of their programs. Not everyone likes being told that the system ain’t working and we need to fix it. On the positive side, improvements in economic wellbeing have been extraordinary in historical terms over the last 50 years with average real growth in per capita GDP since 1973 effectively doubling living standards every 35 years. It used to be the case that social policy was bribes for the poor, industry policy was bribes for the rich and taxation policy made sure that in the end no one was really any better off. Equity doesn’t fit. giving a greater emphasis on reconciling paid work and family responsibilities so as to provide an environment which is less stressful for parents and more supportive of child development. This paper discusses the state of projects and project management within one of the largest government ministries in Trinidad and Tobago. Striking the Balance has ventured into dangerous territory, territory not usually the domain of public policy. Adoption of the EU strategies for energy system integration and hydrogen to pave the way towards a fully decarbonised, more efficient and interconnected energy sector 20 May 2020 Presentation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 to protect the fragile natural resources on our planet Policies debated in the wider public domain will ensure a measure of success, as relevant insights of a wide range of stakeholders are incorporated. When their youngest child is more than 5 years old, fathers do less housework than men in childless couples. Sadly, policy makers often blame this on equity instead of policy design that has failed to account for the underlying causes of inequity. Perhaps the discussion paper has rekindled old disputes between couples about who does what and how much. Perhaps one of the reasons is that it is because what people want and what they do are two very different things at the moment. The ageing of Australia will see to that. Efficiency can and does reduce system-based corruption and that, in itself has the potential to save Ghana an estimated GhS 3+Billion that we lose to corruption annually – to put that in perspective, that equals the Expenditure allocation for running the combined offices of Ministries of Food and Agric, Fisheries, Lands & Natural resources, Trade and Industry, Tourism and culture, Environment, Energy and Business Development – 8 in all. Giving a greater emphasis to policies which allow families to balance their paid and unpaid work commitments is obviously a key. In the following sub-sections, these five main categories are discussed in more detail. It can raise its productivity and competitiveness, optimise its resource allocation and increase bottom-line savings and profits. The nature of the modern family has changed with it. more aware of the public sector’s efforts to promote CSR. This chapter offers a range of pointers to tho se areas in which public policy interventions can be most effective. There is a sense of unfairness about it. #1 BEDGETARY FLEXIBILITY:Grants from donors in the 2019 Budget is GhS 1.1 Billion. Men live, on average, seven years less than women and are twice as likely to die before the age of forty five than women of the same age. Women no longer live behind their neat suburban fences, care full time for their babies, keep their house tidy, volunteer for meals on wheels, do their mother-in-law’s shopping and have a nutritious balanced meal on the table when their 2.5 children and husband arrive home that evening. #2 REDUCTION IN SYSTEMIC CORRUPTIONThe practicality of embracing efficiency and procuring the innovation needed to achieve it, is that it forces organisations to focus their efforts on those policies, procedures, management and technology systems that add value to the final good or service that is delivered to the citizen. Of course it is never that simple. It’s a waste for them and for all of us. Ageing is a double-edged sword for Australian families, resulting in increased pressure to engage in both paid and unpaid work. Business lobbying has a strong influence on public policies. This does not mean the private sector can deliver public services just as well as the public sector. Imani 8th Inspirational Public Sector Leadership Award Keynote Address By Marricke Kofi Gane, Moving Speech by Yao Selorm Kuatsinu, a Volunteer at Nkosuo Initiative, Keynote Speech By Francis Asenso-Boakye At The Rotary International District 9102 Conference, Address by HE John Dramani Mahama at the 31st December Revolution anniversary- Ho/ VR. The plight of indigenous Australians is evidence of that, culminating in the 17 year gap in their life expectancy compared with the total Australian population. One off-shoot of these efforts which has been heartily embraced by politicians, public servants, and the public is evidence-based decision-making or performance information- informed decision-making. If that’s too hard, a check list of the obvious connections would not hurt. Inequity makes all that we do in public administration less efficient, less effective. How wonderful to be so rich- this is good news. Striking the Balance is an examination of the role of unpaid work and care in determining equity outcomes for men and women; the conclusion to the project will need be coherent but also active social policies which aim to not only improve equity but will do so through improved economic empowerment, health and even family stability. giving a greater emphasis on increasing the employment rate of mothers with children and. The effort to make better decisions, resulting in better policy implementations as well as greater efficiency has led to several different movements. Especially if the work is casual and provides no superannuation. These issues also influence fertility and Australia’s ageing which in turn contribute to macro-economic outcomes. The adoption of a holistic approach to e-government development can increase its impact as key enabler for public sector modernisation and efficiency. I want to start off by thanking the leadership of IMANI for the invitation to speak here today and as is Characteristic of mine, I will try to be as brief and direct as possible. Why? There is no doubt that the drivers of this debate in terms of family breakdown and its consequences have strong emotional impact. In the UK, the "Digital by Default" strategy estimates that moving services to digital channels will save £1.7 to £1.8 billion per year. A major Arab Bank study of low economic growth rates in the Arab world, for example, found most of their desultory growth (1/2% a year on average) could be explained by the absence of education, human rights and in particular women’s rights. 1. Social policy was meant to achieve equity, economic policy was to ensure growth and the two were never meant to mix. The more fundamental question is whether systems using private companies can deliver public services as effectively as public sector 1 International Monetary Fund 2004 Public … If the public sector is to be efficient and effective, it must employ an integrated approach to public policy. However, the public sector has continued to fall behind the private sector in technology innovation, writes Darrell West. In other words the absence of equity. But we only have to look at the Productivity Commission report on Indigenous indicators8 if we need evidence that the real economic gains of our society are not being equally shared. Policy analysis, evaluation and study of the formulation, adoption, and implementation of a principle or course of action intended to ameliorate economic, social, or other public issues. Much of this pressure is already falling on women – many of whom are finding themselves in the sandwich generation providing simultaneous care to dependent children and elderly relatives. Equity is more than a tool, it is also an end in itself. However, explicitly discussing the efficiency 2. It enables us to attain other national interest goals such as economic growth, low unemployment, reduced poverty and improved competitiveness. Thank goodness. Equity as a tool. Toward a more efficient public sector 21 Large-scale organizational changes in government are typically beyond the remit of individual senior leaders. The following document has been released and are included in this package: The . 40 per cent of mothers return to the paid workforce within a year of giving birth; Family units are getting smaller with less capacity to care for our elderly and family members with a disability or illness at the same time as our population ages dramatically; Paid work is taking up more and more of our time with an average full time male employee working 42 hours per week and an average full time female employee 38 hours. But that is not all. In two of those examples, so called equity programmes have produced unintended results and may well be described as ineffective and even inefficient. The over-riding procurement policy requirement is that all public procurement must be based on value for money, defined as “the best mix of quality and effectiveness for the least outlay over the period of use of the goods or services bought”. On many counts this is good for children, but frequently not for the women themselves. So of course e quity must be a national goal. But it is also true that equity is a catalyst. Men frequently lament the loss of their children; it is a cause of great sorrow. Not surprising, more public sector organizations are beginning to evaluate new technology—in particular, the cloud—to effectively and affordably provide the services their citizens need. The public will at all times require public services to be of a high quality, convenient, cheap and easily accessible; and the way most Governments keep the equation balanced is to as much as possible, Cut down on the cost of delivering public services or improve their Revenue Generation. Efficiency starts there, (3) Counterpart Citizen Survey on relevance, convenience, pricing & access to public services. The world of paid work has changed dramatically. Dante explained that the public sector also needs to adopt policies that enable the use of technology. I believe we need to Do things Right and we need to do the Right Things. It is clear that these problems are more than social problems, of interest to policy makers other than social policy makers. It has ventured into the home, into the private world of unpaid work and unpaid responsibilities, whether they be caring for children, adult disabled children, ageing parents, dogs or houses. providing leave – particularly paid leave as I have argued in relation to maternity leave – which allows parents, particularly mothers to take time out of the workforce and return to it following childbirth, flexibility in working time arrangements and. Relative poverty rates and income inequality is also associated with growing per capita incomes by country. The paper finds that there are higher levels of potential support across the population as a whole than amongst those in the lowest quartile of income distribution. I feel it is a benefit, which has the potential of killing 2 birds with one stone. Gains in real incomes have been accompanied by an accumulation of assets that families can use when faced with difficult circumstances – the net worth of average households across the seven major OECD economies ranged between 5 ½ and 7 times their annual disposable incomes. Perhaps improvements in productivity driven by continuous technological improvement will mean Australians will be so wealthy in forty years time they will be happy to pay taxes at this level. Paid maternity leave, while available to only around 60 per cent of the female workforce compares extremely favourably to paid paternity leave. 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