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Capacity Development Program for Public Administration
On September 8th, representatives of the Foundation Open Society Institute Montenegro (FOSI ROM), UNDP and the Government of Montenegro have signed a Framework Document for the Capacity Development Program for the state administration of Montenegro (the CDP).
The CDP is designed to complement the Government’s plans for implementation of its own Strategy for Public Administration Reform in Montenegro (2003-2006) and the Strategy for Education Reform, for which the Government needs additional foreign assistance. It is the first program of that type, in which the Government appears as a partner, financial contributor and a beneficiary at the same time. For FOSI ROM, the CDP serves as a supporting mechanism for the Foundation’s regular programs in education, judicial and public administration reforms.
The pilot programme will be undertaken for an initial period of 18 months. The ultimate vision is that of a fully-fledged programme of capacity assessment and development gradually extending, with financial and technical cooperation from a wide range of organisations, joined in a partnership for this purpose. The programme will be considered complete, as soon as the Government of Montenegro has sufficiently built its own capacity, and has progressed far enough with reform, to assume responsibility itself for continuation of a programme with similar objectives and using similar benchmarks.
It is
assumed that the design and execution of the CDP for Montenegro will learn
from the experience of the Capacity Building Fund in Serbia. Moreover,
such a programme may be expected to yield very productive lessons for
application elsewhere, even in much larger countries, and to do so
economically, in so far as the relatively small size of the Republic and
of its central administration should render the programme correspondingly
easier to conceive in a holistic perspective and to manage with limited
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