Nigeria Programmatic – Reform design based on Comprehensive design, broader issues and demand applying diagnostic methods comprehensive driven, but implemented to broader issues. scope on a limited scale in specific institutions. Mozambique Programmatic Focus on mainstreaming Capacity building failed capacity in development mostly due to a lack of sectors within poverty coherent strategy and reduction or macro strategy problems with the design and coordination of donor and implementation. support. Strategy Strategies mostly paid PSR project not attention to improving implemented. Contradictory coordination sector management and views for the reasons: focuses on coordinating donor commitment, design or technical support. implementation problems, assistance and question of donors’ fragmentation. sustainability and focus on technical assistance for sectors. Specific sectors The 2004 Public Sector Linking sector specific Reform project was an reforms to performance attempt to take a more incentives. integrated, cross-sector approach to the issue of performance incentives and a sector-wide health sector reform program. Ghana Overall strategy No overall strategy for Less integration among capacity building was projects. Privatization, articulated and the decentralization, public interrelationships between service reforms have been on public sector reform and the agenda with limited sector programs were not results. Least successful explicitly managed. capacity support has been in public sector reform. Failure in such areas as public service reform and the computerization of public expenditure management. Source: extracted from literature review of countries, 2004-2010, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana and Ethiopia Refining the purpose, objective or strategy and consistency of the Ethiopian PSR reform A few Sub-Saharan Africa countries applied a cross-sectorial and integrated PSR approach aligned with the goals of democratization or development, and Ethiopia is one of them. The quality of a reform program depends on the existence of a coherent reform strategy and adherence to it, the alignment of a standalone or an integrated reform project/program to national strategies and
Nigeria Programmatic – comprehensive scope Reform design based on broader issues and demand driven, but implemented on a limited scale in specific institutions. Comprehensive design, applying diagnostic methods to broader issues. Mozambique Programmatic Focus on mainstreaming capacity in development sectors within poverty reduction or macro strategy and coordination of donor support. Capacity building failed mostly due to a lack of coherent strategy and problems with the design and implementation. Strategy coordination focuses on technical assistance and fragmentation. Strategies mostly paid attention to improving sector management and coordinating donor support. PSR project not implemented. Contradictory views for the reasons: commitment, design or implementation problems, question of donors’ sustainability and focus on technical assistance for sectors. Specific sectors The 2004 Public Sector Reform project was an attempt to take a more integrated, cross-sector approach to the issue of performance incentives and a sector-wide health sector reform program. Linking sector specific reforms to performance incentives. Ghana Overall strategy No overall strategy for capacity building was articulated and the interrelationships between public sector reform and sector programs were not explicitly managed. Less integration among projects. Privatization, decentralization, public service reforms have been on the agenda with limited results. Least successful capacity support has been in public sector reform. Failure in such areas as public service reform and the computerization of public expenditure management. Source: extracted from literature review of countries, 2004-2010, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana and Ethiopia Refining the purpose, objective or strategy and consistency of the Ethiopian PSR reform A few Sub-Saharan Africa countries applied a cross-sectorial and integrated PSR approach aligned with the goals of democratization or development, and Ethiopia is one of them. The quality of a reform program depends on the existence of a coherent reform strategy and adherence to it, the alignment of a standalone or an integrated reform project/program to national strategies and
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