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Challenges and Innovative Practices in
Fostering Diversity in the Public Service
Paris, 1 October 2009
As part of the programme of work of the Public Employment and Management Working Party, the OECD is conducting a project on diversity in the public service.
The project takes as its basic premise that workforce diversity contributes to make a stronger and fairer public service that better understands and meets people’s expectations. By improving the representation in government of the different social groups, diversity plays a part in maintaining core public values, increasing managerial efficiency, improving policy effectiveness, and raising the quality of public services.
However, to benefit from a diverse workforce OECD countries have to overcome a number of challenges: budgetary barriers, rigid human resource management frameworks, cultural and behavioral obstacles, and the fact that realising diversity is a long-term issue that needs to be sustained over time.
Experts from OECD countries gathered on 1 October 2009 at the OECD headquarters to discuss the challenges and the innovative practices in fostering diversity in the public service.
The following Agenda items were discussed:
- Diversity in the Public Service : GOV/PGC/PEM(2009)1/FINAL
Speaker: Oscar Huerta-Melchor, OECD Secretariat.
- Session 1 -- Diversity: a growing priority in public management
Speakers: Miwa Eto, Japan, Elizabeth Montoya, United States.
- Session 2 -- Designing diversity policies: the challenge of sustainability
Speakers: Asa Krook, Sweden, Veronique Poinssot, France.
- Session 3 -- Implementation strategy
Speakers: Ben Smeets, Belgium, Celik Saniye, Netherlands, Godtfred Boen, Norway.
- Session 4 -- Results assessment and future challenges
Speakers: Tziona Koening-Yair, Israël, Tony Strutt, United-Kingdom, Veikko Liuksia, Finland.
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