Value for Money in Government _ - OECD _ OCDE

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Foreword Table of contents Executive summary Introduction to the “value for money” review of Australia The Value for Money study Sources of information Variety of institutions, common language Building on basics Contents of the assessment Notes Bibliography Benchmarking employment, expenditures and revenues in Australia’s public administration Basic features General government employment General government expenditures General government revenues Notes Bibliography Overview of previous public administration reforms in Australia The Coombs vision: devolution, accountability and performance (1974-1987) Emergence of top-down budgeting (1987-1996) The contract state: accrual outcome budgeting (1996-2009) Toward strategic government: ahead of the game (2009 to present) Note Bibliography Reform priorities and recommendations for value for money in Australia’s government Ten priorities for reform Reform 1: Stricter rules with regard to ministerial advisors Reform 2: A more consistent division of roles and responsibilities between levels of government Reform 3: Integration of executive and professional expertise in policy development Reform 4: Development of the Parliamentary Budget Office Reform 5: Process sharing among agencies and merging of agencies Reform 6: Service sharing among agencies Reform 7: Strengthening the spending review procedure Reform 8: Strengthening ICT management Reform 9: Improving risk management in supervisory and regulatory activities Reform 10: Separation of budgeting from output steering in agencies Survey of the reforms Notes Bibliography Glossary