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Strengthening the Accountability of Agricultural Field Agents: A Principal-Agent Perspective
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Angella Namyenya; Patience B. Rwamigisa; Regina Birner – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: To assess the potential of a paper diary for strengthening accountability in public agricultural extension services. Therefore a paper diary called 'Diary for Agricultural Extension Officers' was developed and tested in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study research approach was applied for the development and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Extension Agents, Rural Extension, Extension Education
Keeping Public Officials Fit. Does Mexico's Access to Information and Data Protection State Level Regulator Authorities Provide the Right Training?
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Silva-Robles, Rigoberto; Dutton-Treviño, Harold Sidney – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
The purpose of this work is to provide empirical evidence as to how state level Freedom of Information or Access to Information and data protection regulator bodies in Mexico carry out their training tasks. We use different theoretical assumptions, particularly those that refer to the idea of "training in the public sector" regarding two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Information, Information Security, Public Administration Education
Private Actors in Policy Processes. Entrepreneurs, Edupreneurs and Policyneurs
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Anna Jobér – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools and municipalities. This study examines a growing rate of activities from companies and businesses…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement of Public Funds in Africa: A Role for Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria
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Olaopa, Olawale R. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2022
In Africa, the processes of democratic consolidation are endangered in spite of various administrative and financial reforms having been implemented to reinforce fiscal consolidation and strengthen governance in the public sector. This then requires investigating the efficacy of these ingenuities in situations where the policy-makers wield…
Descriptors: Prevention, Deception, Money Management, Federal Aid
Public Sector Reform in Italian Higher Education: The Governance Transformation of the Universities -- A Comparison among Perceptions of Rectors and Department Chairs
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Facchini, Carla; Fia, Magali – Higher Education Policy, 2021
New public management (NPM) has dominated the reforms in the higher education sector and the academic discussion on how universities should be governed since the 1980s. Besides, the introduction of accountability and efficiency measures in the form of performance measurement and pay-for-performance scheme, a key debated aspect of NPM is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Governance
Management of Public-Private R&D Projects in Higher Education: Key Trends and Issues
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Santos, José M. R. C. A. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
Research and Development (R&D) project managers in Higher Education must deal with uncertainty, ambiguity, competition, accountability and different objectives for professors, scientists, firms, users and other stakeholders. Formal project management frameworks are commonly adapted to support this. However, the wide range of challenges related…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Partnerships in Education, Higher Education, Public Sector