Research

This publication is to share the authors’ papers presented at the Conference Improving Performance of Public Administration: Current Experiences and Future Perspectives, which was held on 09-10 September 2015 in Belgrade. The Conference was organised within the project “Performance Audit and Policy Evaluation: On the Same or Parallel Tracks?” which is implemented by member organisations of the Think for Europe Network (TEN). The Conference gathered representatives of state institutions, policy makers, practitioners in the fields related to public administration, researchers from civil society and academia, and representatives of international organisations, coming from the Western Balkans, as well as the EU member states. The purpose of the Conference was to contribute to a better understanding of the relevance of performance management in public administration as well as to put performance audit and policy evaluation on the policy agendas in the region, with a specific focus on Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.