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Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi
Viale Berengario 41, 41121 Modena
www.economia.unimore.it
Dialogue on evaluation and innovation in local government
DEMB, CAPP and Progetto Energie meet Center for Local Governance (CLG)
10/06/2015 – 11/06/2015
Visiting delegation
Specific objectives for the meeting in Modena
Members and speakers: Professor Babette Rabie,
Senior lecturer in Public Sector Monitoring and
Evaluation and Public Policy, is leading the visiting
delegation for a total of 8 persons including: 4 scholars from Stellenbosch University’s School of Public
Leadership, 2 local government practitioners and 2
senior managers from the Western Cape Provincial
Department of Local Government.
During the meeting with the group from CLG, different topics will be developed and discussed with
CAPP members and the research team Energie sisma:
Participants from DEMB - UniMORE
Local coordinators and speakers: Professor Massimo
Baldini, Professor Anna Francesca Pattaro, Professor
Margherita Russo, Professor Paolo Silvestri
Department Director: Professor Giovanni Solinas
Research Assistants: Alessia Pedrazzoli, Silvia
Pergetti, Marco Ranuzzini, Manuel Reverberi, Giulia
Tagliazucchi
General objectives
The Centre for Local Governance (CLG) from the
School of Public Leadership of Stellenbosch University, South Africa, is a leading institution for the
study of public management, local development, policy evaluation, aiming at fostering the design and the
implementation of public policies and social services
by South African local governments.
As one of its core activities, every year CLG offers
opportunities for scholars and local practitioners to
study local good practices. In 2015, CLG organized a
study visit to Italy, in order to carry out an in-depth
analysis of: Innovation in local governance.
The visiting delegation is coordinated by Professor
Nicoletta Stame from the Italian Association of Evaluation and Monitoring and is visiting the Universities
of Rome, Milan and Padua. The delegation commences its tour on June, 10th at the University of
Modena and Reggio Emilia. The delegation is in
Reggio Emilia on June 10th, and is visiting the Department of Economics Marco Biagi in Modena on
June, 11th.
▪ The main characteristics of Public Sector (PS) in Italy (i.e. different layers of government, entities with
specific competences/powers, intergovernmental relationships etc.)
▪ The main features of local governments in Italy:
small size; large competences in services’ delivery
to citizenship and local socio-economic contest
with limited resources; local finance and fiscal rules
and controls from central government and EU;
partnerships for local governance and services delivery (e.g. joint services delivery in local authorities associations or other partnerships between public or private actors; some information on accounting; etc.)
▪ Some trends in PS reform and improvement in Italy
concern: introduction of (new) managerial instruments, transparency, accountability, performance
assessment/evaluation, innovation, use of ITCs, egovernance, p/p partnerships, citizens/stakeholders
involvement in local governance.
▪ Presentation of the municipality of Modena as good
practitioner: delivery of a plurality of services (directly and through contracting, partnerships etc.),
citizen participation in local governance, egovernance, adoption of managerial tools, one of
municipalities testing of the new accounting reform
(financial statements prescribed by the harmonized
standards) etc.
Programme
June 10th
Morning
The visiting delegation meets Professor Mario
Minoja from the Department of Communication Sciences and Economics in Reggio Emilia
Afternoon
4.30pm-6.30pm Guided Tour of Modena: Galleria
Estense, Illuminated Manuscripts and Maps; Duomo
8.30pm Social Dinner, in Modena, downtown center
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June 11th
Location: Seminar room, DEMB, and Sala del
Vecchio Consiglio, Municipality of Modena
9–9.15am Welcome | Seminar room, DEMB
9.15am–5pm Workshop DEMB and CLG: Dialogue on evaluation and innovation in local
government
Following initial presentations, every session of the Workshop includes an introduction and a discussion
Initial presentations
9.15–9.30am Presentation of the Department of Economics Marco Biagi by Giovanni Solinas
9.30–9.45am Presentation of the Centre for Local
Governance by Babette Rabie
First session: The main features of local governments in Italy and South Africa | DEMB
9.45–10.45am Introduction by Anna Francesca Pattaro and discussion
10.45–11am Coffee Break
11am–12pm Introduction by the visiting delegation
and discussion
Second session: Presentation of Municipality of
Modena | Municipality of Modena
12pm–2.00pm Guided tour and aperitif at Municipality of Modena; Meeting with Tommaso Rotella,
Member of Executive Council, on good practices of
Municipality of Modena. Introduction by Anna Francesca Pattaro and discussion
Third session: Socio-economic conditions of families in the province of Modena and in Stellenbosch/ Cape Winelands | DEMB
2.30–3.30pm Introduction by Paolo Silvestri and
Massimo Baldini and discussion
3.30–4.30pm Introduction by the visiting delegation
and discussione
4.30–4.45pm Coffee Break
Forth session: Emergent issues in local development | DEMB
4.45–5.30pm Social economic and sanitary effect of
2012 earthquake in Emilia, Introduction by Margherita Russo and discussion
Topic to be proposed by CLG
5.30pm–6.15pm Specific topic to be defined, Introduction by the visiting delegation and discussion
8.30pm Social dinner
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BABETTE RABIE is Senior lecturer and head of the
Masters programme at the School of Public Leadership,
Stellenbosch University. She specialises in policy writing
and public performance monitoring and policy and programme evaluation. She has presented numerous formal
academic and practical executive training programmes in
public sector policy writing and monitoring and evaluation, to delegates from all spheres of government, the
NGO sector and private sector. As part of her capacity
building responsibilities she has reviewed newly proposed
organisational and substantial policies from various departments, programmes and units and has suggested
changes and improvements to these policies. She has published several policy articles, including a proposed typology of M&E approaches, an exploration of the emerging
M&E policy framework in South Africa, and a framework
for evidence-based local economic development policy.
The core contribution from her doctoral thesis entitled
“Outcome and Output Indicators to measure the success of
Local Economic Development Strategies” was presented at
the at the 2010 Conference of the European Evaluation
Society and was recognised as one of the three best papers
presented at the conference. She served on the management Board of SAMEA (the South African Monitoring and
Evaluation Association) for the period 2010 – 2013 and is
the immediate past-Chair of the association (2012-2013).
MASSIMO BALDINI Massimo Baldini is Associate Professor of Public economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He
obtained the Msc in Economics at University College
London and the PhD in Economics at the University of
Bologna. His main research interests are the economics of
the welfare state, the distributive effects of public policies
and taxation.
ANNA FRANCESCA PATTARO is Assistant Professor
of Public Management at the Department of Economics of
the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She obtained the Msc in Business Econom-ics and the PhD at
“Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice. She has been Marie
Curie Research Fellow for "European Doc-toral School on
Knowledge and Management" - EU-DOKMA at Department of Business Studies of Uppsala University (Sweden)
and Visiting Scholar at Public Man-agement Institute (Instituut voor de Overheid) of the Katholieke Universiteit of
Leuven (Belgium). Her main research interests are Local
Authorities management, fi-nance and governance; Intergovernmental & inter-organizational (financial) relationships and networks; Lo-cal governance; Management and
Information & Accounting systems; Use of ICTs in Public
Sector Management, Online (Financial) Transparency,
emergency response and impact of e-government.
MARGHERITA RUSSO is Full professor of Economic
Policy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. After her MA in Economics at University of Cambridge
(UK) she began her academic activity at the University of
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Pescara (Italy) in 1985 and then at the University of Modena (since 1989). Her main research interests include:
analysis of processes of innovation and competence networks, effects of innovation on the organisation of labour,
structure and change in local productive systems, evaluation of innovation policies. In the last decade she has been
member of international research projects on innovation,
and has directed research projects on the mechanical industry in Italy, on the assessment of policy innovation
networks and on the socio economic effects of the 2012
earthquake in Emilia (Italy). Since 2000, Russo is scientific director of Officina Emilia, a project of the University
of Modena and Reggio Emilia aiming at the regeneration
of competences in the field of mechanics (to foster innovation in the local industry) and the increasing of the quality
of the education system.
PAOLO SILVESTRI is Professor of Public finance at
the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy),
where he teaches Public Finance, Welfare Systems and Introduction to Program Evaluation.He is a Research fellow
of CAPP (Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies, Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia); President of the Internal evaluation unit at the
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and member of
others evaluation units (University of Sassari and Parthenope University in Naples).He has been Research student at
the London School of Economics and Research fellow at
the University College London and member of research
committees at the Ministry of Education; at the National
Committee for University Evaluation; at the National Institute of Statistics (Istat). He has written on industrial subsidies; finance of higher education systems; budget policies.His recent research has focused on welfare programs;
poverty; finance of long term care programs; program
evaluations.
Department of Economics Marco Biagi (DEMB)
The Department of Economics Marco Biagi (DEMB)
groups together 74 staff members with six research centres
on economics, labour market and industrial relations, social, public budget and fiscal policies, welfare and wellbeing, design and reform of tax systems. The evaluation of
policies at both the national and the local level is performed through a wide variety of approaches and methods.
Capabilities include building and use micro-macro simulation models for applied analysis. Cross disciplinary research characterizes the six research centres. CAPP’s research aims at analysing the policies that have financial
implications for the government budget. Research areas:
welfare regimes, inequality and poverty, public policy
evaluation, gender discrimination, cultural economics, education policies, micro-simulation and sample surveys, action research. CEFIN promotes research in the fields of
economics and law of the markets and financial intermediaries and finance. CIPRAL is focused on the development
of training and research/consulting to businesses and public bodies with regard to risk prevention and health protection at the workplace, both locally and nationally. DEAL
promotes international research and comparative studies in
the area of labour and industrial relations, with a specific
focus on the labour market, labour relations, training policies, work organization, health and safety at work. RECent’s research profile is on international macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and econometrics, with particular interest in the study of the economic cycle and
growth. SOFTech ICT is the Inter-departmental Research
Centre in ICT promoted by UNIMORE and participated
also by the DBGroup at the Dept. of Engineering. The researchers at DEMB are involved in research projects on
innovation and management and networks of enterprises
CAPP - Centre of Analysis of Public Policies
CLG - Center for Local Governance
The Centre for Local Governance (CLG) at the School of
Public Leadership of Stellenbosch University facilitates
teaching and research, development and renders advisory
services in the broad field of good governance, leadership
and general management for the purpose of enhancing local government service delivery in South Africa. The work
of the Centre will focus primarily on research, community
interaction and training in matters relating to local government. Specifically the objectives of the centre is to:
Undertake research in the fields of local and provincial government and community development.
Develop custom made training programme for local
government practitioners.
Develop innovative approaches to the challenges
faced by local government.
Serve as a knowledge hub or repository of data and
good practices in local government.
Provide professional development opportunities for
local government practitioners.
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The Centre of Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) was
founded in 2000 and counts 24 members, thereof 11 people belong to the Department of Economics Marco Biagi.
The CAPP monitors and evaluates social and fiscal policies, with particular focus on the distributional effects; it
develops and applies micro-simulation models for applied
analysis; it tackles local development issues and designs
innovation policies; it fosters the establishment of interdisciplinary working groups and cooperates with similar institutions. The research activities of CAPP lay particular emphasis on welfare policies, with attention to retirement
funds and social services. It also investigates on gender issues and policies, poverty and income distribution; with
reference to this last point, CAPP developed and implemented the survey ICESmo (Survey on socio-economic
conditions of families within the province of Modena).
Only recently CAPP started exploring the topic of local
development and innovation. CAPP participates in the research project “Energie Sisma Emilia” and carries out the
empirical analysis though a structured interview to 400
workers and their families. This interview is developed
following the model set by ICESmo survey.
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“Energie Sisma Emilia” Research Project
The 2012 earthquake has shaken up collective understanding of a vast territory within the region of Emilia Romagna. It struck the architectural and cultural heritage of 33
towns, the lives of 550,000 people, and the economic activities of an area that alone generates almost 2% of national GDP. It also profoundly impacted the organization
of services by the local health system, serving almost
230,000 people. The earthquake-affected areas are characterized by the presence of important industrial districts,
such as the biomedical district, as well as agricultural districts, and by internationally-renown good practices of local governance. Private and public buildings, factories, offices and retail shops, historical and cultural heritage sites,
have been severely damaged and must be promptly reconstructed to ensure the continuity of socio-economic activities and the quick recovery of local systems. The research
project “Energie Sisma Emilia” aims at analysing the fractures that the earthquake brought about, not only in the
physical structure of cities, but also in their socioeconomic fabric. The underlying idea is that it set in motion transformations whose consequences are not easy to
foresee: different agents, at different levels, taking individual and collective decisions, generate a cascade of
changes that interact with the evolution path of the local
systems. Indeed, earthquakes pose challenges, but provide
unprecedented opportunities: strategic decisions by economic and political agents, newly available financial resources, coordination or lack of coordination among main
stakeholders, prompt tackling of the risk of organized
crime profiting from the disaster, and so on. A key question to address, in order to understand what opportunities
and challenges may emerge after the earthquake, is the relationship between the factors that were shaping the evolution of the local systems before and the factors that have
now been triggered. The project therefore has two main
objectives: (1) carrying out an in-depth analysis of socioeconomic and health impacts of the earthquake; (2) contributing to the design of informed policies that may improve the effectiveness of the reconstruction process.
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