Sharing public management expertise

09 January 2009

This project was funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and managed by the British Council in Ankara. The consultancy input to the project was led by Liverpool Business School.

Professor Paul Joyce commented: "This provided a great opportunity for Liverpool Business School to share its public management expertise with civil servants in the Turkish Government. This we did by making the UK government experience of strategic management accessible to Turkish civil servants, and by helping them to think about tailoring the lessons to a Turkish context."

The formal aims of the Project were to assist a core team of Turkish civil servants in developing a sound understanding of strategic management in the UK public sector, and to disseminate experiences to a wider audience and decision makers in the Turkish civil service.  Involved in the project was a team of representatives from key central Turkish Government agencies, namely, the Prime Ministry Strategy Development Directorate and relevant units of Ministry of Finance, Undersecretariats for State Planning Organization, and the Treasury.

Nahit Bingol, Director of the Directorate of Strategy Development in the Turkish Prime Ministry has written to us: "We were exposed to the history, challenges, successes and failures of UK public management reforms since 1979 through lectures, workshops, study visits and seminars. I can confidently state that the project reached well beyond its initial objectives."  

He went on to praise the contribution of the lead consultancy input by Liverpool Business School. He said the Turkish civil servants in the project team felt gratitude for the "invaluable knowledge and experience that has been shared with us.  The commitment, leadership and professionalism displayed were so motivating and insightful."  Finally, he said that the Turkish civil servants looked forward to working with Liverpool Business School on different projects in the future.