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WORKSHOP ON DECENTRALIZING CIVIL SERVANTS. Panel Comments Wednesday, 9 June 2004. Key Points. Decentralization has a long history Past strongly influences current approaches to decentralized CS administration “ Default ” setting to which system will return if reform momentum waivers.
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WORKSHOP ON DECENTRALIZING CIVIL SERVANTS Panel Comments Wednesday, 9 June 2004
Key Points • Decentralization has a long history • Past strongly influences current approaches to decentralized CS administration • “Default” setting to which system will return if reform momentum waivers
Understanding History • Two distinct approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa: Francophone and Anglophone • Francophone: strong tradition of central administration, so current initiatives are mostly deconcentration, elected local bodies have limited power • Anglophone: pattern of decentralization and reversal stretching back 50 plus years. For many countries this is second time around, mostly delegation • Commonwealth Africa model, with local variations, formed in 1960s/70s
Anglophone decentralization first time around • Municipal government • Native administration • Pre-Independence creation of elected district councils with service delivery responsibilities • Post independence formalization of model • Subversion, reversal or decay in many countries
Key Elements of Approach • Unified local government service • National incomes policy and harmonized pay scales • District plans take lead from national plan • Supervisory role for MinLocGov • Separate arrangements for teachers
How does this map to the Evans/Manning Model? • Budget • Establishment control • Recruitment • Career management • Performance management • Pay policy
Assessing incentive factors • Limited scope for independent policy making by locally elected officials • Pay structures, payroll mechanism, budget funding and career development machinery cause LG staff to ignore elected officials • Local government will always be shaped by national political system