The PAR Monitor measures the countries’ state of play in PAR, benchmarks them against each other, and provides recommendations for improvement focused on strategy for public administration reform.
The first Western Balkan PAR Monitor in the area Strategy for PAR for 2024/2025 is a product of the work of the entire WeBER 3.0 research team, whose findings for each Western Balkan administration provided a basis for the production of this report. Monitoring in the “Strategy for PAR” area is based on the one SIGMA Principle in this area: A comprehensive, credible and sustainable public administration reform agenda is established and successfully implemented, fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
In line with WeBER’s focus on the region’s EU accession process, once the SIGMA Principles of Public Administration were revised in 2023, the WeBER PAR Monitor methodology was also redesigned in 2024. This was done in order to keep the focus of WeBER’s recommendations on EU-compliant reforms, thus guiding the governments in the region towards successful EU accession and future membership.
The Western Balkan PAR Monitor: Strategy for PAR 2024/2025, produced by the WeBER project, is the first report produced based on the new, revised methodology. It provides comparative results for each country in the Western Balkan region in the area of Strategy for PAR. Moreover, this report is the first one produced in line with the new reporting approach – one report per each reform area. This report should be read in concurrence with the six national PAR Monitor reports in the Strategy for PAR area, laying out detailed monitoring results and recommendations for each country.