Dynamic development of the modern world Ð growing complexity, increasing quality and service demands of society, budgetary restraints, external political and economic environment Ð puts public administration in front of new challenges. Public administration must respond in agile manner, providing efficient quality services, flexible solutions, and innovative approaches. Unfortunately within the LatviaÕs single multi-fund Operational Programme of the European Structural and Investment Funds ÒGrowth and EmploymentÓ no financial allocations are foreseen for necessary improvements of public administration and public sector human resource policies. Different international indicators can be used to assess public administration, including WGI, GRICS, Bertelsmann etc. Those are showing mixed results for Latvia between Baltic countries and towards average of the European Union and the OECD.
With the project the State Chancellery addresses such key drivers of public administration policy efficiency as improvement of regulatory quality and lessening administrative burden, overcoming challenges of attracting and retaining talent to make public sector an attractive employer, incentivise value based culture in public administration, based on mutual cooperation, integrity, result orientation, innovation and agility.
The problems that laboratories are addressing are based in real needs (having systematic approach to HR management of public sector, which currently is very much fragmented, creating common value-based brand of public sector, since the image of public sector per se is rather negative and critical as well as lessening bureaucracy for everyone both internally in public sector and most importantly for citizens and entrepreneurs), which requires concrete, practical solutions that demands new ways of solving them.