1. Flemish Public Administration
Goal Management in the
Flemish Public Administration
A process of trial and error
Belgium
Katrien Mortelmans
May 15th 2017

3. Flanders Flemish Authority Flemish Parliament (external website)
Government of Flanders
Flemish Administration
11 policy areas

4. Bottlenecks Growing internal planning and reporting burden
Lack of strategic focus
Efficiency and effectiveness loss in terms of monitoring at level of Flemish Public Administration
No alignment between organisation-wide monitoring systems in Flemish Public Administration which were implemented to monitor coordinating elements

5. What is it? Methodology Streamlining system Connecting
Managing the organisation goals
Flemish administration
User-friendly
Streamlining system
Realigning planning processes
Rationalize monitoring environment
Connecting
People
Information
Organisation structure

6. Goal Management Goal Manage-ment Vision Frame-work Content Tools
Support
Goal Management

7. Results
Taxonomy was developed: general view on how entities can shape their cascade of goals to plan, monitor and report activities in efficient and effective way
Framework PDCA
Methodology for monitoring transversal/horizontal policy plan
Incentive for coupling financial cycle to policy and management cycle
Joint monitoring system for Flemish Public Administration to monitor Flemish Coalition Agreement, transversal/horizontal policy plans, regulatory agenda, policy memoranda, policy papers as a minimum (TRAJECT)

8. Thank You katrien.mortelmans@wvg.vlaanderen.be