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On 28 November, the Higher School of Economics, together with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation held the conference “Enhancing the effectiveness and performance of public civil servants”. The conference was a practical event and was devoted to planned innovations in HR technologies and the public civil service.
More than 350 people took part in the conference, predominantly heads of HR departments in federal and regional authorities and representatives of the majority of scientific and educational establishments engaged in issues pertaining to public services.

On 12-13 November, the conference "Innovation in the Public Sector: from Concept to Result" was held in Paris under the auspices of the OECD. On 14 November a meeting was held of the OECD Public Management Committee, where recommendations were considered and approved on development of budget management, best practice in public procurement and ensuring gender equality in public service. Andrey Klimenko, Director of the Institute for Public Administration and Municipal Management of NRU HSE, took part in these events.

The Expert Committee of the Ulyanovsk Region has given a high rating to the strategy for the region's social and economic development to 2030, elaborated by the Centre for Regional Programmes of the Institute for Public and Municipal Management. The specialists proceeded to put forward a number of suggestions and corrections to the document.
This was a matter of discussion at a meeting dedicated to updating the region's Social and Economic Development Strategy, which was held on 29 October under the chairmanship of the region's Governor Sergey Morozov. The head of the region expressed his gratitude to all the experts who had played a part in the discussion of the Strategy.

On 29 - 30 September the Executive Committee held the Thirteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the CIS on Scientific, Technical and Innovative Cooperation in Minsk.
The focus of attention at the meeting was implementation of the Intergovernmental Programme for Innovative Cooperation of CIS Member States until 2020.  NRU HSE, the chief developer of the Programme, was represented by Vladimir Korolev, Deputy Director of IPAMM NRU HSE.

About one thousand public and municipal servants from the Crimea and Sevastopol will attend training at HSE under the programme for advanced qualification in public procurement. One of the key aspects of the training will be countering corruption.

On 1 August NRU HSE discussed the results of public control of public procurement. Public organisations are striving with ever greater energy to control issues of public procurement, but the lack of prescribed rules for inspections hinders the development of this initiative. This was the conclusion reached by experts from the Regional Programmes Centre at IPAMM NRU HSE, who, at the meeting of experts at NRU HSE on 1 August, presented the results of monitoring public control in public procurement, the presentation of which was organised as part of preparations for the national report "On the procurement practice in 2014".

A meeting of heads of municipal authorities of the Yaroslavl Region has discussed current results of research into works performance standards in local authorities, conducted with the involvement of NRU HSE. The meeting also summarised the performance efficiency assessment of local authorities for 2013.

IPAMM Director Andrey Klimenko presented a speech at the meeting of the Economic Council at the offices of the Governor or St Petersburg, held at the Smolny on 9 July. The meeting was dedicated to a discussion of economic policy steps, called upon to ensure the achievement of goals of the recently approved Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of St Petersburg up to 2030.