Innovation to top the agenda of Commonwealth Public Service Ministers Meeting in Malta

More than 20 ministers who play key roles in public sector reform and the delivery of public services will attend the meeting. They will be joined by senior public service officials.

At the forum, participants will focus on how to provide more responsive and flexible leadership and how to develop processes, systems and structures that encourage innovation in the delivery of public services to Commonwealth citizens.

“Public sector development is a process of continuous learning and improvement,” said Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma.

“In a context where the resources available to the sector are either scarce or reduced, innovation is of particular importance to ensure improved service delivery and to meet the increasing demands for efficiency and quality.”

The meeting, which is being chaired by Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith, will focus on the trends, challenges and priority actions that governments need to take to ensure accountability, transparency, predictability, capacity and participation – Commonwealth principles of good governance.

During the meeting the Commonwealth Secretariat will launch a new publication Commonwealth Good Governance – Developing Capacity in the Public Sector.

This publication showcases work which the organisation does to strengthen government institutions responsible for delivering or facilitating the delivery of public services in areas such as public-private partnerships, national information and communication technology policy development, human resource development, combating corruption and alternative service delivery.

The Commonwealth Ministers Forum on Public Sector Development will convene just after the three-day Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) 2010 Biennial Conference which ends today.

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