Country
Objectives
Reform initiatives
Problems and Challenges (Examples)
Efficient budget management
Result-oriented budgeting
Reporting objectives, avoiding a
dditional administrative burden
Slovenia
Flexible allocation of funds
Changing of funding of higher education
Monitoring the quality of highe
r education institutes, claim
responsibility of universities to the public
Public Finance Management Reform
Slovakia
Transparent and stable medium term framework
Fiscal decentralising
Cooperation and coordination among de
partments involved, defining
specific formats and reporting met
hodologies, technical constraints,
additional capacity needed during implementation
Efficiency and effectiveness
Restructuring of municipalities and services
Political commitment at all decision-making levels
Finland
Productivity of public sector
Productivity programme
"Independent schools", Custom
er choice system within
elderly care
Exceeding costs due the need of
a certain amount of overcapacity
Sweden
Cost- saving and efficient public services
Reform of fiscal relations
Modern budget management
Comprehensive Spending reviews
Coordination among different leve
ls of government, defining
performance targets, demand for
good-quality, outcome-focused data
UK
Efficient public sector
Efficiency Programme (Gershon review)
Avoiding additional bureaucracy