ReSPA Director participated at the SIGMA Ministerial Conference “Good Public Governance – Delivering for Citizens and Businesses”
ReSPA Director, Ms. Ratka Sekulovic, participated at the SIGMA Ministerial Conference “Good Public Governance – Delivering for Citizens and Businesses”, which took place on 13-14 December 2017 in Paris, France. The Conference gathered all of SIGMA’s partners at ministerial level for the first time in 25 years, with the aim to discuss good public governance and how it can help to deliver better outcomes and services for citizens and businesses.
Transformation of the public administrations to deliver for citizens in challenging times; importance of the public governance for long-term economic development; citizen engagement as part of governance reforms; importance of the rule of law for citizens and businesses; supporting structural economic reforms through good public governance; creating a competitive and business-friendly environment through better public services and developing a transparent, predictable and accountable approach in public governance to contribute to the rule of law in practice are some of the topics discussed at the Conference.
At the end of the Conference,Director of ReSPA stressed the importance of continuous and fruitful cooperation between SIGMA and ReSPA.