Humberto F. Martins Public Management Secretary Presidency of the Republic of Brazil Seminar I Strengthening Country Capacity to Manage for Development Results Public Management for Development - the Brazilian Experience

Some underlying conditions and requirements for development capacity Institutional critical mass: state meta- institutions, markets and civil society Macroeconomic stability Democratic political leadership Strategic visioning Active states and development oriented public management policies

Shifting paradigms in public management policies

State strengthening The inequality plague: the danger of social fragmentation Weak and incomplete states: spoils, gaps and low performance Increasing overall social capacity: emerging markets and civil society Increasing public institutions’ capacity to achieve development results

Step 1 - Building a vision President Lula’s vision: –build a country in which every Brazilian can have at least one meal a day –build a nation partnered with other developing countries to form a new global order President Lula’s leadership in driving the political forces towards his vision

Step 2 - Building consensus towards a socially inclusive development model Growth, employment and no hunger as major goals The Social and Economic Development Council as a key consensus building instance (82 Civil society representatives from throughout the country)

Step 3 – Setting targets: reinventing public planning The new PPA and the programmatic agenda: a portfolio of 374 government programs The social, economic, environmental, regional and cultural dimensions of development The Regional Consensus Building initiative: extensive hearing of 2,900 NGOs and 4,900 actors An integrative implementation monitored and assessed

Step 4 – Mobilizing and engaging the key implementation actors The Public Management Chamber: a deliberative committee of Ministers The Public Management Network: managers and public officials accountable for results Formation of internal consultants teams Formation of external consultants teams The Advisory Committee: civil society participation The public management portal as a major integration tool

Step 5 - Building consensus on problems and assessing capacity to achieve results The Self-diagnosis approach Opinion and attitude surveys Policy focus groups Assessment of organizational capacity to achieve PPA results Definition of organizations to be given assistance priority Blue paper problems and limitations affecting the whole public sector

Step 6a – Promoting organizational fitness Assist selected organizations in designing and implementing institutional development plans to Align strategies to PPA programs and identified demands Define performance indicators Redesign structures to fit new strategies Revise work processes to focus on clients and improve efficiency Restaff and improve competence Redesign information and knowledge systems

Step 6b – Enhancing performance of central administrative systems and regulations The National Conference on Public Management –diagnosis on procurement, human resources, budget, IT/E-Gov, accountability, systems etc. –White paper (Public Management Plan): modernization and deregulation agenda

Step 6c - Setting up a permanent monitoring and evaluation system Action plans Performance indicators Monitoring and Evaluation teams and committees Database feeding Contractual arrangements and incentives

Critical success factors Capacity of the central modernization agency to manage a comprehensive process involving hundreds of actors in a broad range of events Good methodology for institutional diagnosis and setting performance indicators Government centrality and good strategies to deal with: –resistance of public managers to be evaluated –resistance of central administrative units to modernize central processes and regulations (procurement, HR, budgeting, IT etc.) Good monitoring and evaluation system Pragmatic approach to deal with limited consensus on certain complex problems in certain sectors or organizations Capacity to assist and evaluate institutional development processes in multiple organizations