1. Welcome to the 4th meeting of the EU network on Public administration and governance
Prague, March23-24, 2017

2. Agenda for this meeting
Day 1 (Thu )
12.00 – Registration and lunch
12.30 – Welcome address
12.40 – Let us know each other better
13.00 – Discussion of the framework offered by the challenge paper on strategic management in the public sector
14.00 – Strategic management in CZ
14.30 – Tools for better strategic planning (CZ)
15:00 – 15:15 Discussion and feedback
15.15 – Coffee break and networking

3. Agenda for this meeting
Day 1 (Thu )
15.45 – Strategic Planning in Romania
16.15 – Discussion and feedback
16.30 – Network Business and EC news
EC News
Feedback from Bratislava Meeting
Follow up after Bratislava Meeting
Feedback from Scotland Study Visit
Bulgarian proposal on Common indicators
Next plans of the network
Events
Personal development opportunities
AOB.
18.00 Conclusions, end of the working part
Joint dinner at Potrefená Husa

4. Tour de table Let us know each other better

5. Since there are new faces here…
Please:
Have a look at the list of participants and faces around.
Find a person you have not met before and is from whatever reason interesting to you.
Briefly introduce each other and discuss your background.
Use 10 minutes to have such a discussion with at least two persons you don‘t know yet.

6. Discussion of the framework offered by the challenge paper on strategic management in the public sector by B. Wauters
13:00 – 14:00

7. Survey on Strategic management
To trigger the discussion on the topic.
20 statements on Strategic Management in random order.
Statement form 10 pairs (always one from Bureacratic approach to strategic management and one from Flexible approach).
24 replies (9 anonymous, 15 identified).
2 persons claimed they are unable to reply because their organisation have no strategic management at all (both from academia).
Anonymous answers more support the Bureaucratic set of statements (in 4 cases even with statistical significance).

8. Survey on Strategic management
Benedict Wauters

9. Survey on Strategic management

10. CZ Case – Strategic management in the Czech Republic (David Škorňa and Věra Karin Brázová, Ministry of Regional Development, CZ) Strategic management concerning ESIF and public administration in general – Tools for better strategic planning (David Škorňa and Věra Karin Brázová, Ministry of Regional Development, CZ) Demonstration of tools used in the Czech practice – Guidelines for the preparation of public strategies; Database of strategies 15:00 – 15:15 Discussion and feedback

11. RO Case – Case of Romania by Radu Iacob, Counselor, The General Secretariat of the Government, The Department for Coordination of Policies and Priorities Strategic Planning in Romania - recent progress – Discussion and feedback

12. Network Business EC News (Mina)
Feedback from Bratislava Meeting (Vladimir)
Follow up after Bratislava Meeting (Matúš)
Feedback from Scotland Study Visit
Bulgarian proposal on Common indicators (Vladimir)
Next plans of the network (Benedict)
Events
Personal development opportunities
AOB.

13. EC News
(Mina and Florian)

14. Making ESF TO11 support perform better
The BIG Picture
Making ESF TO11 support perform better

15. "Thematic knowledge" (Toolbox QPA / wiki)
Past Present Future
ESF evaluation
"Thematic knowledge" (Toolbox QPA / wiki)
Country knowledge study - characteristics
Country knowledge study – reform trends 20yrs
ICB Impact study
TO11 Project Mapping
Identification of common themes across countries
Design of EU support
Multi-country "Quality & learning dialogues"
"Stories & examples" of TO11 practice
TO11 achievements & outcomes

16. Feedback from Bratislava Meeting
(Vladimir)

17. Feedback from Bratislava (November 2016)
25 replies.
Learning points.
Offer to the peers.
Transcripts available at

18. „Vanguard Method“ cluster.
Throughout the whole meeting (including the articles for the preparation) I discovered how harmful can be setting targets for the employees in the services. We should been asking ourselves the question what is the purpose of the work we are doing and what is the added value for our client.
How to change thinking – interested in how to “create the environment to unlearn an relearn”
Look at flow, not costs – try to find failure demand.
Thinking about PURPOSE in every occasion of optimalization.
The importance of managers in changing process of thinking and how to involve them.
„Vanguard Method“ cluster.

19. „Vanguard Method“ cluster.
In services it’s always important to keep in mind the variety of demand of the customer.
Difference between optimizing manufacturing process and services.
Importance of the purpose.
Value & failure demand.
Variety matters!
Don’t be afraid to have and apply counter-intuitive ideas :-).
Different look at organization and its functioning as a system, with specific purpose.
„Vanguard Method“ cluster.

20. The need to intensify the analysis on the future of ESF / post 2020.
Use the network much more as network and I suggest to continue with participating experts from sector and do much more practical => workshops.
Other issues.

21. Follow up after Bratislava Meeting
(Matúš)

22. Feedback from Scotland Study Visit

23. Bulgarian proposal on Common indicators
(Vladimir)

24. Bulgarian proposal on Indicators
As announced by by Мария Христова
At the meeting of the ESF Evaluation Partnership Latvia raised the issue, that the long-term result indicator (LTRI) “Participants in employment six months after leaving” is actually not only not in line with the logic of intervention of training of physicians, teachers, civil servants, magistrates, court officials, but it actually contradicts the intervention logic for such training interventions.

25. Bulgarian proposal on Indicators
Bulgarian OP “Good Governance” is strongly in favor of the Latvian proposal, that the LTRI  “Participants in employment six months after leaving” should not be reported for participants in OP interventions consisting of training of civil servants, magistrates, court officials. If this is really not possible within the current programming period (as indicated by the EC at the ESF Evaluation Partnership meeting), than we are strongly in favor of the attached Latvian proposal, namely “Since in line with ESF Regulation all common indicators should be reported for each investment priority, instead of not reporting this particular indicator in cases where there is no aim to change the labour market situation of the ESF participants, to report 0.”

26. Discussion

27. Conclusion
Public Administration and Governance network supports the position of Latvia expressed on the ESF Evaluation Partnership that the LTRI  “Participants in employment six months after leaving” should not be reported for participants in OP interventions consisting of training of civil servants, magistrates, court officials, or in cases where there is no aim to change the labour market situation of the ESF participants, to report 0.
This position was agreed following the Bulgarian proposal at the network meeting in Prague on March 23, 2017.

28. Next plans of the network Events Personal development opportunities
(Benedict)

31. Opportunities

33. AOB?

34. See you tomorrow here. Coffee is served at 8:30 We start at 9:00 (sharp).

35. What about a dinner now?
Potrefená Husa
Platnéřská 88/9