Sigma Activities: Lithuania

Sigma is supporting the reform efforts of Lithuania in priority areas through its work on the following projects:

Financial Control and External Audit

• SAI Peer Assistance 2005-6 (July 2005 – July 2006)
• PIFC Peer Assistance Ongoing 2005-6 (May 2005 – November 2006)
• Assistance in Drafting National Anti-fraud Strategy (March - October 2005)
• Review of Draft Project Fiche on Protection of EU Financial Interests (October - December 2004)
• 2004 Ongoing PIFC Peer Assistance (June 2004 – April 2005)
• Ongoing Peer Assistance for the IA and PIFC Systems (February 2003 – December 2004)
• Assistance in EDIS Preparation for Phare (August – December 2002)
• Peer Review and Development Planning for the Public Internal Financial Control (PIFC) and Internal Audit Systems (December 2001 – December 2002)
• Assistance in the Elaboration of an Strategic Development Plan for the State Control (May - December 2001)

Legal Framework, Civil Service and Justice

• Working Meeting on Civil Service Salary Reform (November - December 2006)
• Seminar on Social Rights of Civil Servants (July - November 2006)
• Seminar on the Quality of Public Services (November 2005 - March 2006)
• Civil Service Secondary Regulations on Selection (September 2005 - November 2006)
• Civil Service and Administrative Development (September 2003 – April 2004)

Policy-making and Co-ordination Capacities

• Regulatory Management Seminar (June - September 2005)

Public Integrity System

• Public Sector Ethics Resource (April - September 2004)

Further sources of information on Lithuania, such as Sigma's Public Management Profile (1999), its geography, people, system of government, can be found by consulting the following sites:

European Commission's country profile: Lithuania
EC Representation in Lithuania
Presidency of the European Union
Lithuanian Government

You may also wish to visit the European Union website