Departament for Effective Public Management - DEPM

Inter-American Prize for Innovation in Effective Public Management 2013

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The “Inter-American Prize for Innovation in Effective Public Management” is an activity of the Department for Effective Public Management that seeks, through the selection of a Special Jury, to identify innovations in public management that the various administrations of the Americas make in order to reward, recognize, systematize, encourage and promote them as useful experiences possible to replicate in several latitudes.l

Its main objective is to strengthen democratic governance in the region through the improvement of public administrations in the Americas’ countries, through the dissemination and exchange of innovative experiences in effective public management.

The Prize is addressed to all national institutions / entities in any of the different administrative levels (national, state, local, etc.) which belong to one of the OAS Member States.

Likewise, the Prize comprises five (5) categories related to different areas of public management for applying:

  • Innovation for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies.
  • Innovation for Management in Human Resources
  • Innovation for Quality in Public Services.
  • Innovation for Open Government and Access to Public Information.
  • Innovation for Institutional Coordination (Inter-institutional, intra-institutional, trans-institutional, with the Civil Society, and Private Sector, amongst other).