Development Administration
And
Administrative Development
Development Administration
development is a complex phenomenon comprising
many dimensions—social, political ,economic,
administrative and so on
• Many have defined it in terms of increase in national
economy. Riggs
• other defined it to include social improvement
• Still others in terms of increase in the capacity of the
political system to deliver
• While there are others who make no distinction
between development and modernization. ,
Different Aspects of Development
• Economic Development
• Political Development
• Social Development
• Human Development (HDI)
• Increase in Happiness is Development
Public Administration and Development
• In the context of public administration development means both,
– development administration and
– 'administrative development'.
• Administrative development is different from Development
administration
• The former pertains to the establishment of administrative
structures, organizations and agencies responsible for running the
administrative affairs of the state….
• Whereas, the later relates the use of this public administrative
systems and structures for achieving the goal of socio-economic
development of the country.
– Using bureaucracy as a change agent for spearheading social and
economic development
– Bureaucracy as a change agent
Facets of Development Administration
• Development is the center of politics of the
Third World countries
• governments play a key role in national
development
• Government uses its administrative authority to
achieve national development goals
• It is done by formulating, organizing and
implementing public policies and programs
• For successful policy actions and goals,
governments need professional civil service
Development Administration as an
Instrument for Change
• Development Administration is an
instrumental means for defining,
consolidating, and implementing national
goals in developing countries
• development administration has at least the
following contexts:
1. Political context
2. Economic context
3. Social context
4. Human Development Context
Types of Development Administration
• It has two major aspects.
– the ‘Development of Administration'.
• This means to develop administration on modern lines.
• It involves strengthening and improving administrative
capabilities as a mean for achieving development goals.
– ‘Administration of Development'
• It has a key role in formulating and implementing the
development programs, projects and policies.
• Public policy planning, implementation, and evaluation
Fred Riggs
F. Riggs said that administration can be improved
by
– changing environmental constraints that hamper its
effectiveness
– strengthening of development programmes.
– Increasing the administrative effectiveness of
government
• He further argued that
– The field of development administration covers both
aspects i.e. the development of administration and
administration of development.
Development of Administration
• Development of Administration concerns the
nature of administrative capacity for development
and methods of improving and increasing it.
– increasing and improving the capabilities of the
administrative system.
– with efficiency and effectiveness.
– improving the education of, and imparting training to,
the personnel engaged in developmental goals
– Administrative capability also involves the use of
modern management techniques and other ways and
means to identify individual objectives with
developmental goals
Administration of Development
• Administration of Development concerns the
organization and management of various,
development efforts and running of public programs.
• Improving and enhancing the administrative
capabilities are directly related to achieving
developmental goals.
• According to Katz
– “Administrative capability for development involves the
ability to mobilize, allocate and combine the actions that
are technically needed to achieve development
objectives.”
• The government machinery is responsible for
achieving the broader socio-economic and
political goals.
Dev. Admin., Inter alia, Involves…..
• Raising the standards of • Improving
education communication system,
• Transforming social • Constructing dams,
systems power plants , and
• Improving Public health infrastructure projects
• Raising national income • Undertaking many
• Stabilizing political other developmental
system tasks of national
importance.
• Conserving national
resources
Elements of Development Administration
[Link]-Provincial-Distric Levels: Planned and
Coordinated Efforts
2. Goal-oriented Administration-Linking Performance Goals
with Rewards
3. Enhance Management Capacities
4. Participation of people in modern techniques------E-
governance, e-democracy for Creativity and Innovativeness
6. Public Sector Responsiveness and Accountability
7. People Centered Administration- Citizen participation
8. Aligning National Policies with Global Development
Agendas