Calendar of Events 2009

Seminar on "Reforming the Civil Service in Georgia"

• Date and Place: Tbilisi, Georgia, 10-11 November 2009 – Draft Programme
• Organiser: Parliamentary Committee of Rules and Procedures/Sigma
• Objective: To discuss the main elements and challenges encountered to build civil service professionalism in EU and OECD countries and the extent to which the experience of these countries may be useful for addressing the current situation and challenges in reforming the Georgian state civil service
• Audience: Parliamentarians and policy-makers
• Contact: Francisco Cardona, Rebecca Hart

Seminar on "Organisation of the Legal Services of the Ministry of Finance: The Experience of EU Member States"

• Date and Place: Tbilisi, Georgia, 25-26 September 2009 – Draft Programme 
• Organiser: Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance/Sigma
• Objective: Exchange experience of EU Member States with the Georgian Ministry of Finance on assigning responsibilities to legal departments at Ministries of Finance, their organisational structures, and their working procedures
• Audience: Civil servants from the Legal Service of the Ministry 
• Contact: Francisco Cardona, Rebecca Hart

Seminar on "Challenges in Reforming the Civil Service in Armenia"

• Date and Place: Aghveran, Armenia, 12-14 June 2009 – Draft Programme 
• Organiser: Armenian Civil Service Council (RA CSC)/Sigma
• Objective: To discuss the main elements and challenges to build civil service professionalism in EU and OECD countries, to assess the current situation and challenges in the Republic of Armenia civil service system, and to identify areas for reform, priorities and direction
• Audience: Top managers and policy makers, human resources managers, Civil Service Council staff
• Contact: Julio Nabais, Rebecca Hart

Seminar on "Public Internal Financial Control in the EU and Armenia"

• Date and Place: Yerevan, Armenia, 9 June 2009 – Draft Programme 
• Organiser: Armenian Ministry of Finance/Sigma
• Objective: To support the Ministry of Finance of Armenia in introducing the PIFC concept in the Armenian Public Administration
• Audience: High officials from the Ministry of Finance
• Contact: Joop Vrolijk, Catherine Smith

Conference on "Harmonised administrative procedures in BiH"

• Date and Place: Sarajevo, BiH, 8-9 June 2009 – Draft Programme 
• Organiser: Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office (PARCO)/Sigma
• Objective: To introduce parliamentarians from the state level and the two entities RS and FBiH to the advantages of a unified system of administrative  procedures in a federal state, and explain the need to review the existing administrative and legal reality in BiH in this respect
• Audience: Members of the three parliaments and administrative practitioners
• Contact: Francisco Cardona, Wolfgang Rusch, Maria Sperling

Second Regional IPA Conference on "Public Procurement Review and Remedies"

• Date and Place: Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28-29 May 2009 – Draft Programme 
• Organiser: State Commission for the Supervision of Public Procurement Procedure/Polish Public Procurement Office/Sigma
• Objective: To exchange of experience focusing on legal protection in the field of public procurement
• Audience: Public procurement practitioners
• Contact: Piortr-Nils Gorecki 

Conference on "Public Administration Reform and European Integration"

• Date and Place: Budva, Montenegro, 26-27 March 2009 -- Draft Programme 
• Organiser: Ministry of the Interior and Public Administration/Sigma
• Objective: To stimulate the debate on the needs and goals for reforming the administration, raise awareness on the principles governing the European Administrative Space and the implications for the Administration of EU membership
• Audience: Selected group of policy makers and high civil servants of Montenegro
• Contact: Francisco Cardona, Rebecca Hart, Ivan Sikmanovic