Have a look at chapter 2 of Paul Joyce's book (2015): https://docshare04.docshare.tips/files/26701/267011310.pdf.

Hope it helps.

Good organization of activities, information and preparedness of the population can reduce the impact and mitigate the consequences of emergencies (crisis situations). In the appendix, I send a variant of the method of analysis of the occurrence of extraordinary events - the method of expert estimates.

Sincerely

Prince Ivan

I see more difficulties not in the environmental analysis, but in the implementation of good plans - due to political interference.

Dear Roberto, I agree with you. Political parties do not address issues of security of society (population), but their own visibility. Every day I see a struggle for political power (the feeding container) in our parliament.

Have you tried using or familiar with the TOWS Matrix? Maybe you can apply that matrix. As far as I know, the internal and external environment of the public administration institution to certain or specific country may vary in analyzing the SWOT. You may also try to check this link: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newSTR_89.htm

- from MindTools.com, to give you an idea. Hope this will help.

Dear Shaban:

You can analyze what happens in the environment with the classical tools (PESTEL, 5 Porter forces), bearing in mind that in a public organization these forces may act slightly different. For instance, the "political" aspect influences more the strategy in public organizations than in private owned ones.

The best litterature I have find in that aspect comes from Britain, Scholes, Whittington and Johnson is a book a use in my courses. Of course this is arguable since I don´t live in Britain, but I think they have experience in dealing with public entrerprises and that has a consequence in their technical litterature.

Hope it helps

Regards

Gustavo

Buen día, se debería incorporar a los directos involucrados (ciudadanos, representantes, organizaciones de base, y demás) en la fase de diagnostico para poder conocer y entender sobre sus necesidades y aspiraciones. De esta manera también se garantiza que la información recopilada sea validada. Saludos

thank u.

Dear Shaban,

I would like to add the answer of my colleague Gustavo Concari - PESTEL Analysis. More in the attached appendix.

Sincerely

Princ Ivan (CZ)

Thank you Evan

You are great human.

Government institutions need to be independent of the policy in order to implement their plans.

Thank you @Roberto

Dear Roberto:

Your opinion is undoubtedly true, but from a practical point of view very difficult to achieve since the ones that construct policy are the ones that decide who will rule the public organizations. At least that is what happens in Uruguay (my country), were it has been very difficult for CEOs of public owned companies to have an independent view of their business.

It´s rather difficult to achieve efficiency if the decisions you have to take are linked to the evolution of the economy and the minister of these affairs is your boss.

Regards

Gustavo

Public administration is always court with political influence both at the policy formulation and implementation in virtually all countries in the globe. Hence its analysis should not be isolated from this reality, though it varies across board. Though the implementation side of the divide is often stressed but because public administrators are the custodian of records vital to the past and current decision making, their inputs in policy formulation should not be undermined. As such, an analyst should as well consider this in the SWOT analysis alongside each country peculiar environmental factors or historical background.

What you describe is common in developing countries. Based on my experience this mainly due to: 1. frequent changes of the government and senior officials subsequently. 2. no link between government program, strategic action plans, and budget and procurement plans. and 3. weak the monitoring and evaluation capacities. An inclusive strategic plan with participatory leadership, that addresses the above, with a predefined clearcut SWOT, would be way forward to meet people needs.

Please note SWOT should be reviewed, not necessary in written, but communicated vigilantly in weekly senior management meetings that oversees progress of strategic plan implementation, as necessary, due to dynamic political/administrative -context.

The involvement of citizens and not-for-profit organizations is regarded as a new means of governance, supposed to better respond to the needs of the population, and to enhance democratic quality. A few references in this regard:

- Ansell & Torfing 2021 - Public Governance as co-creation (book)

- Ansell & Torfing 2021 - Co-creation, the new kid on the block in public governance

- McMullin 2020 - Challenging the necessity of new public governance: Co-production by third sector organizations under different models of public management

The article hyperlinked below argues that the conditions of economic and social progress include participation; democratic processes; and the location of necessarily diverse organizational setups at the community, national, regional, and increasingly global levels. (Of particular relevance to this query, at least from a theoretical perspective, is the "Steel Fulcrum" reproduced in the short case study on p. 2.)

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