Author: Mary Gusella
Publication Date: 2010
This case study examines the CIDA-funded DDD project, Support to Tanzania's Ethics Secretariat for the Updating of the Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act. Despite an extremely ambitious time line, a clause-by-clause analysis of the current legislation and specific proposals for amendments were produced and presented to the President of Tanzania. Lessons learned include research on legislative machinery in selected... Details
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Influencing Policy Choices in Niger and Ukraine
Author: Gordon Evans, Marie Fortier-Balogh, Diana Ivancic-Skinner
Publication Date: 2009
This case study addresses two country attempts to increase the gender-responsiveness of government policy and budgetary choices. In Ukraine, analysts in the Office of the President now assess the state budget using the DDD project-produced Budget Analysis Manual, which includes a chapter on gender impact assessment.... Details
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Budget Analysis in Ukraine
Author: Gordon Evans
Publication Date: 2009
This case study examines the CIDA-funded project, National State Budget Analysis by Secretariat of the President, which produced the Budget Analysis Manual, including a gender-budgeting chapter, for Ukraine's Office of the President. The project was led by the Conference Board of Canada and its local partner, the Ukrainian International Centre for Policy Studies, who produced the... Details
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Author: Gordon Evans
Publication Date: 2009
This case study reviews the scope and effectiveness of the Department for International Development's (DFID) support to public administration reform in Ghana over the last decade. It uses the Ghanaian example to explore how public administration reform reinforces good governance/democratization. It also reviews DFID's approach to evaluating its public administration reform programme in Ghana and the implications for... Details
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Development Coordination in Jordan
Author: Leslie Shimotakahara
Publication Date: 2009
Canada has played a leading role in assisting with Jordan's long-term educational and labour market reform strategy, taking a Sector-Wide Approach (a SWAp). This case study examines what happened when the envisioned SWAp outstretched what could be realistically implemented within the funds available. Through the advice and technical assistance of DDD's human resource ... Details
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Organizational Redesign in Revenue Canada
Author: Roy S. Gunn
Publication Date: 1979, 2004
This case takes readers inside the senior public service for a rather candid look at the relationship between Cabinet Ministers
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Author: M. C. Ircha
Publication Date: 1983, 2004
The improper handling of a sensitive personnel issue led to an administrative and political crisis in the City of Kingston.
Le traitement inapproprié d'une question délicate concernant le personnel a conduit à une crise administrative et politique dans la Ville de Kingston. Cette étude de cas est conçue de manière à présenter aux étudiants en administration municipale et administration... Details
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Author: Lloyd Brown-John
Publication Date: 1992
Doesn't it always seem to happen that way? Go off for a relaxing vacation and return to find an overloaded agenda or In-Basket. Ms. I.M. Trubble, ADM (Immigration) has just returned from a vacation up the Amazon. On the Sunday evening of her return she drops into her office and finds 16'goodies' in her In-Basket. Here is an opportunity to work with her as she sorts out a potential scandal bedevilling the Minister,... Details
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Author: Kenneth Karnaghan
Publication Date: 1977, 2004
This revised version of the Alan Jeffrey Affair deals with the issues of conflict of interest, ministerial responsibility and administrative secrecy. While the case focuses on a conflict of interest situation in the federal public service, it also provides a basis for assessing the roles of ministers, opposition members, journalists and public servants in managing ethical behaviour in government and for... Details
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Author: Kenneth Kernaghan
Publication Date: 1977, 2004
Un cas portant sur un conflit d'intérêt dans la fonction publique fédérale. Il fournit les fondements d'une discussion et d'une analyse de la conduite déontologique des employés du gouvernement. Il fournit également l'occasion d'étudier certaines conventions entourant les relations entre les fonctionnaires et les hommes politiques, la doctrine de la responsabilité ministérielle et la pratique de la discrétion... Details
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Government and its Client Groups
Author: Sharon Bider, Peter McNaughton
Publication Date: 1984, 2004
This simulation was designed to explore the dynamics of government policy development when faced with - as is the case in this study - three distinct client groups who want at all costs assert their opposing interests. The case of Maria Gonsalves begins with a seemingly minor fraud on which three groups of interest concentrate all their... Details
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Author: Barbara Wake Carroll
Publication Date: 1993, 2004
This participation exercise uses federal-provincial negotiations as a context within which students are introduced to the complexities and trade-offs that are inherent in the implementation of national programmes. The parties have multiples and conflicting goals.
Cet exercice de participation conçu pour les étudiants de première et de seconde année se sert du contexte des négociations... Details
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Author: Richard LeCompte
Publication Date: 2004
Il y a dix ans, la technologie de l'information était déjà très utilisée dans les secteurs prives et publics, mais la ville de Montréal avait pris du retard dans la course aux systèmes informatiques.
Même si l'administration de la ville se servait de son ordinateur central pour gérer les impôts fonciers, les salaires des employés, les fichiers maîtres et d'autres applications du genre, la gestion de ... Details
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Author: Eric Wells
Publication Date: 2004
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Author: Edd LeSage
Publication Date: 1985, 2004
This case study examines tension and conflict within a large, complex governmental organization. Students are asked to place themselves in the shoes of the Commissioner of "the Penitentiary Service" and to seek to resolve a protracted, nasty and emotionally charged controversy. The immediate issue at hand concerns the question of which staff should perform intimate body searches for contraband. The larger issues... Details
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