Consultancy

IPMCS staff has advised many bodies of government. Here is a sample list of consulting activities:

  • Municipal Associations of Honduras, Panama and Guatemala (on issues of local economic development and local governance reform)
  • Save the Children Sweden, Lima, Peru (organizational evaluation)
  • Swedish International Development Agency (organizational evaluation and effectiveness of Parliamentarians for Global Action)
  • Swedish International Development Agency (on evaluating higher education management in Mozambique; strategies for strengthening legislature bodies; organizing women in the informal economy)
  • United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (on strengthening governmental leadership; on governance reform; public finance; public administration education and training; strengthening local governance; collaborative governance; achieving the Millennium Development Goals; and effective governance and decentralization)
  • United States Agency for International Development (on evaluating legislative development initiatives; on democratic institution building in Bosnia; on assessing democracy in Paraguay)
  • United Nations Development Program (on strengthening civil society; government decentralization; local government reform; and democracy building)
  • Asian Development Bank (on improving Asian public administration education and training)
  • University of Indiana and Eurasia Foundation (on education and training for development of the civil service in Ukraine)
  • Bialystok School of Public Administration (on local government reform in Poland)
  • Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration – Odessa (on policy analysis; on health policy)
  • City of Stockholm, Sweden (on public management and education policy)
  • Region of Skane, Sweden (on improving public management)
  • Professional Management A. B., Stockholm, Sweden (on evaluating public management reform in Sweden)
  • Parliament of Ukraine (on constitutional revisions; legislative functions; committee structure and staffing)
  • Congress of Paraguay (on municipal government reform and health sector decentralization)
  • Congress of Perú (on developing national decentralization policy and municipal and regional legislation)
  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (on public administration education in Poland)
  • Municipality of Asunción, Paraguay (on establishing a municipal office of management and budget; on citizen participation, organizational reform)
  • President of Sierra Leone, Africa (on executive-legislative relations)
  • State Government of Sabah, Malaysia (on government accountability)
  • Ministry of the Interior, Argentina (on government reform: municipal management and citizen participation)
  • Association of Chilean Municipalities (on municipal management)
  • Municipality of Buenos Aires, Argentina (on municipal management)
  • Municipality of Iquique, Chile (on municipal management)
  • Municipality of Pucallpa, Perú (on municipal management)
  • National University of Asunción, Paraguay (on graduate education in public administration)
  • Ministry of Health and Social Services, Paraguay (on issues of decentralization)
  • Municipality of Asunción, Paraguay (on budget and financial management)
  • US Agency for International Development and the National Assembly of Costa Rica (on restructuring legislative procedures and staff support services to improve the effectiveness of the Congress in Costa Rica)