“MUNICIPALITY PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY”: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PEJA MANICIPALITY

Abstract

Regardless of where we live, the management of the municipality public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an 
interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the 
municipality public sector.. Local governments of post-war and transitional countries are under pressure to improve public 
sector performance and at the same time contain expenditure growth. While factors such as ageing populations and 
increasing health care and pension costs add to budgetary pressures, citizens are demanding that governments be made 
more accountable for what they achieve with taxpayers’ money. This paper briefly reviews key institutional drivers that may 
contribute to improve municipality public sector efficiency, and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance 
information and its role and use in the budget process in Peja municipality. Increasing the use of performance information in 
budget processes is an important initiative that is widespread across transition post war countries. It is part of an ongoing 
process that seeks to move the focus of decision making in budgeting away from inputs (how much money can I get?) 
towards measurable results (what can I achieve with this money?). 
Key words: Institutional drivers, public performance, public efficiency , budget process efficiency