Primary Documents:
Public Management: Ideals into Actions
Diversity in Public Service:
Green Paper - Transforming Public Service Delivery
This document aims to address the need for a specific policy and criteria for the transformation priority, transforming (public) service delivery. It also provides the policy and criteria (principles) which would enable national departments and provincial administrations to develop departmental service delivery strategies.
Source: Government of South Africa, Department of Public Service Administration
Delivering the Promise - How Missouri can Grow Excellent, Accountable Public Charter Schools.
This report documents the status of quality improvements in Missouri’s charter schools and provides suggestions for further steps, particularly policy improvements that should help charter schools deliver on the promise to Missouri’s school children and their families.
Source: National Alliance for Charter Schools
Hackney Public School Promise
Hackney is a borough in the East End of London lying just north of the City of London. It has a population of approximately 210,000, which is one of the most ethnically diverse in the United Kingdom. This is a case study of public sector partnerships in the delivery of the borough’s education services.
Source: Local Government Delivery Council, The Local Government Association, UK
Financing:
How to finance Public Sector Energy Efficiency Projects
This document is one of a series of publications contained in the Energy Commission’s Energy Efficiency Project Management Handbook, that is designed to help local governments, schools, and other public entities successfully implement energy efficiency projects in their facilities.
California Energy Commission, Energy Efficiency Division
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to prepare, within 12 months of enactment, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve banks. The bill repeals prohibitions under current law that prevent GAO from auditing the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy and any of the Federal Reserve’s transactions involving a foreign central bank, the government of a foreign country, or a nonprivate international financing organization.
Quiet Heroes and Innovators:
OECD Innovation Strategy
The OECD Innovation Strategy draws on significant work carried out by more than 15 Committees and their working parties across 10 OECD Directorates, including numerous analytical projects, workshops, conferences, a series of country roundtables with policymakers and stakeholders.
A series of annual reports began in 2010. The 2015 series focuses on an agenda for policy action. This links to the strategy as well as to a website with links to analysis and additional related readings
Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance 2003-2009
This publication provides an overview of 85 successful innovations in governance and public administration from 40 countries that received the United Nations Public Service Awards, which is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. The purpose of this book is to disseminate, through descriptive case studies, information about innovative practices by looking at the problem that led to an innovation; the solution that was designed and implemented to respond to the specific challenge; the actors and steps involved in the innovation process, and lessons learned. Learning more about how public institutions from around the world have solved difficult governance challenges can be a powerful and inspirational tool for those engaged in improving public sector performance.
Source: United nation Division for Public Administration and development Management, UNDESA
Innovation Statistics
This page provides information about OECD work on innovation surveys and indicators. The OECD has played a key role in the development of international guidelines for surveys of business innovation (Oslo Manual) and the design of indicators constructed with data from such surveys. In addition to developing methodological guidance, the OECD also carries out analytical studies using innovation-related indicators and microdata. This work is guided by the OECD Working Party of National Experts on Science & Technology Indicators (NESTI).