Author/Authors :
ACAR, Ali Selçuk Üniversitesi - Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi (İİBF) - Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, Turkey , SEVİNÇ, İsmail Selçuk Üniversitesi - Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Turkey
Abstract :
Sigma (Support for Improvement in Governance andManagement) is established to improve governance and management as asupport in Central and Eastern European countries and it is a technical supportprogram for the candidate countries to develop the general administrativecapacity development. Sigma was established related to OECD’s PublicManagement Directorate and it is a common initiative of the EU and OECD.Funded by a large part of the EU’s PHARE program, this initiative is initiated in order to support the reforms in public administration of thirteen (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Macedonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) former Soviet bloc countries. In 2004, Turkey has begun to take advantage of the Sigma program. Main objectives of Sigma are; increasing the administrative efficiency of program benefited countries in order to support the public sector employees’ democratic values, bound ethics and rule of law, supporting the local governance in central administration in order to overcome the problems in the framework of the issues related to EU integration plans and internationalization, supporting the entreprises in the scope of issues related to public administration reform EU and other support programs and contributing to the coordination between the different support mechanisms. In this study, the works in Turkish public administration will be put forward in line with the Sigma program.
