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OAS Announces Prize Winners of the Inter-American Award on Innovation in Effective Public Management – 2014

The Organization of American States (OAS) today announced the winners of the "Inter-American Award on Innovation in Effective Public Management – 2014," which aims at identifying and promoting innovative actions in the public management of national, departmental and local governments of the Hemisphere.

The initiative, carried out through the OAS Department for Effective Public Management, seeks to recognize, identify and systematize tools and innovative experiences in public management, to disseminate, replicate and adapt them in the region in order to continue improving public institutions at all administrative levels.
In total, 74 applications were received from 18 OAS member states.

The Special Jury was chaired by the OAS Secretary for Political Affairs, Kevin Casas-Zamora, and was composed of Manuel Arenilla, Director of the National Institute for Public Administration (INAP) of Spain; Rethelny Figueroa, Executive Director of the Central American Institute for Public Administration (ICAP); Iván Hidalgo, Director of the Institute of Government and Management of the San Martin de Porres University of Peru; and Sonia Ospina, Professor at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service of New York University.

The results are as follows:

Category Innovation for Quality in Public Services

Prize Winner: Programa Mae Coruja Pernambucana – Secretaria de Planejamento e Gestao do Estado de Pernambuco - Brazil

Special recognition for the following application:
Documento de Identificación de Menores y su impacto en el ejercicio de los Derechos Humanos y el desarrollo del país - Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil – RENIEC – Perú


Category Open-Government and Access to Public Information

Prize Winner: Uruguay Concursa - Oficina Nacional de Servicio Civil – ONSC - Uruguay

Special recognition for the following applications:
Modelo de Gestión de Transparencia Municipal - Consejo para la Transparencia - Chile

Portal del SINABI: plataforma social y cultural de Costa Rica - Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas – Costa Rica

Record Arbitral del OSCE: Transparencia que genera confianza en la gestión y en el sistema arbitral - Organismo Supervisor de las Contrataciones del Estado (OSCE) - Peru

Category Innovation for Institutional Coordination

Prize Winner: Experiencia municipal en la implementación y coordinación de políticas sociales de reparaciones - Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima - Peru

Special recognition for the following application:
Círculo Cerrado de Viviendas - Iniciativa de construcción público-privada - Municipalidad de Cerrito – Argentina

Category Innovation for Management in Human Resources

Prize Winner: Encuesta de clima y cultura organizacional de Administración Pública Federal (ECCO) - Secretaría de la Función Pública – Unidad de Política de Recursos Humanos de la Administración Pública Federal – Mexico

Special recognition for the following applications:
Programa Jóvenes Profesionales - Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires – Argentina

Financial, Administration and Composition of Employment (FACE) – Census of the Jamaican Public Sector - Government of Jamaica – Office of the Cabinet: Public Sector Transformation and Modernization (PSTM) – Jamaica

Category Innovation for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies
Declared null and void

Reference: E-366/14