The Workshop on functional reviews and audits took place on 18 and 19 February 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine as a follow up to the 5th Annual Public Management Summer Institute on "Restructuring Government to Overcome Crisis". The Workshop was organized by the Main Department of Civil Service Ukraine, in close co-operation with the State Chancellery of Latvia and the Ministry of Finance of Estonia.

The main purpose of the workshop was to enhance knowledge and facilitate the sharing of experiences amongst representatives of the public sector in selected countries in the area of functional reviews/audits. It combined training, presentations of country cases and discussions on a draft methodology for conducting a comparative study on functional reviews. The target audience were government officials with experience in functional reviews and a total of 20 practitioners from Europe and Central Asia participated in the workshop.

The workshop has been organized as a part of the multi-country activity Government in Action to Response to Economic Downturn. The overall aim of this activity is to increase expertise of public administration in the region in restructuring the government to overcome crisis. The project includes several activities: the 5th Summer Public Administration Institute, two workshops on specific thematic areas and two comparative studies.

For more information on the event, please see the announcement, the application form, the agenda, the logistical note, and the final report.
 

Event Materials                                                                                                          

• List of Participants
  
  
• Comparative research on functional reviews and audits: "Government action in response to economic downturn"  by Mr. Serghei Ostaf, Consultant
  
  
• Functional and Management Reviews in the context of Economic Downturn  by Mr. Peter J. Reed, Consultant / Keynote Speaker of the workshop. See also the background note to the presentation
  
  
• Latvia by Mr. Valerijs Sturis and Ms. Inese Vaivare, Consultants in Policy Coordination Department, State Chancellery of Latvia
  
  
• Estonia by Ms. Tiina Tamm, Deputy Secretary General in Public Governance Policy, Ministry of Finance and Ms. Jogiste Kadri, Expert in Budgeting Methodology and Development Department, Ministry of Finance
   
• Hungary by Mr. Richard Adorjan, Head of the Central Government Budget Chapters Department, Ministry of Finance and Ms. Hortenzia Hosszu, Government Advisor in Development Programmes for Governmental Human Resources, Hungarian Prime Minister Office
  
  
• Ukraine by Mr. Ivan Presniakov, Senior Analyst in UNDP project "Support to Civil Service Reform in Ukaine" and Ms. Valentyna Afanasyeva, Head of the Centre for Adaption of the Civil Service to EU Standards, Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine
  
  
• Moldova by Mr Serghei Ostaf, Functional Review Expert in Moldova
  
  
• Russia by Ms. Ignatova Tatyanna, Head of Cathedra of Economic Theory and Enterpreunership, North Caucasus Academy of Public Administration
  
  
• Kazakhstan by Ms. Meruert Makhmutova, Director of the Public Research Policy Centre in Kazakhstan
  
  
• Kyrgyzstan by Ms. Nuripa Mukanova, General Secretary in Anticorruption Business Council in Kyrgyzstan

 Background Readings

• Manning, Nick / Parison, Neil (2004): 'Determining the Structure and Functions of Government: Program and Functional Reviews'. World Bank Paper 36135, World Bank, Moscow. (October 2004)
• Verheijen, Tony/ Smirl, Lisa/ Kozáková, Anastázia (2001): ‘Rebuilding state structures: methods and approaches. The Trials and Tribulations of Post-Communist countries’, in:  UNDP/RBEC Policy Advocacy Papers, UNDP/RBEC Regional Support Centre, Bratislava.
• Bibliography for Functional Reviews 
  

Photos from the workshop