about PAI

Public Administration International (PAI) was launched in 1995 to provide advice and support to public sector organisations and other bodies involved in the delivery of public services, and to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences. We specialise in management consultancy and development services for organisations in and associated with the public sector worldwide. We offer expert advice to governments that are undergoing political, constitutional, economic and structural change. The promotion of good governance and best practice are our key objectives.

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our consultancy services

We provide consultancy for governments worldwide and practical advice based on sound experience for governments and organisations implementing major public service reform, good governance and poverty reduction programmes, and we can draw on substantial international experience in designing, implementing and monitoring these programmes.

Currently we are involved in the following consultancy projects:

• Albania: Review of Civil Service Law Implementation Challenges
• Armenia: Support to the Human Rights Defender's Office for the Development of a Twinning Fiche
• Bosnia: Support for Establishment of a State Minsitry of Agriculture and Rurual Development
• Croatia: Strengthening the Public Internal Financial Control Structure
• ENPI East region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) - Support to Regional Cooperation on Culture
• Georgia: Capacity Building of the State Ministry for Conflict Resolution
• Kosovo: Development of Policy and Planning Capacity in the Office of the Prime Minister
• Moldova - Designing and implementing a system for policy development and conciliation
• Montenegro: Implementation of Budgetary and Salary System Reform
• Romania: Strengthen the National Institute of Administration (NIA) and Regional Training Centers' (RTC's) training capacity

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our study programmes

We design and deliver study programmes in the United Kingdom and other countries, providing policy makers and senior managers with an opportunity to update their knowledge of public service structures and systems in the UK and elsewhere. Our direct access to senior managers in the civil service and local government, to academics, politicians and civil society organisations enables visiting delegates to make important contacts with specialists in their particular field of interest. Our study programmes provide an excellent forum for international networking and sharing ideas about best practice.

At present we are inviting applications for our following study programmes:

• Access to justice: Police, courts and prisons
• Achieving better regulation: The UK state and private enterprise
• Changing the law: Successful reform
• Crisis communication in government
• Film, governance and society: Red tape and celluloid
• Freedom of information: Achieving open and transparent government
• Good governance: UK and international perspectives
• Government: image and information. The UK experience
• Heritage and culture: Challenge and innovation in policy and practice
• Internal audit and performance management: UK and international perspectives
• Lawyers and government: Managing change
• Managing elections: Techniques and perspectives
• Open for business: The role of government in attracting inward investment
• Pension schemes: Security, diversity and choice. The UK experience
• Policy and the public: Involving citizens and civil society in policy-making
• Protecting society: Challenges in managing prison and probation services
• Public-private partnerships: The UK experience of roads and transport
• Public service commissions: Professionalism, performance - excellence
• Putting people first: The key to improving public services
• Rewarding work: The strategic approach to pay and benefits
• Trust in government: Promoting ethics, integrity and professional standards in public services
• When citizens complain: The role of the Ombudsman in improving public services

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consultancy opportunities

If you are interested in working with PAI on our consultancy projects and study programmes, please complete and send us by email the Key Information Form together with your CV. For a list of current project opportunities please visit the list of vacancies.