Activity under preparation EU for Good Governance   RS2024AAP The European Union (EU) places significant effort on good governance by setting the administrative standards parts of the acquis, by transferring best practice through EU financial instruments and promoting management practices of its own institutions. The concept of good administration has been progressively defined by EU countries and is included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 41 - Right to good administration).In 2020 governments worldwide have found themselves under strain while managing the fallout and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ability of public administrations to react to the many societal challenges, open for dialogue with the public, able to introduce new policy solutions and deliver better services became even more important.This Action is designed to support Serbia in pursuing good governance practices across public administration at central, regional and local level that directly impact the quality of sector policies, public services, and ultimately competitiveness and growth, as iterated in the Programming Framework, Window 2, Thematic Priority 1 and Thematic Priority 2. The size, structure and scope of public institutions is unique to each country, and their architecture and organisation is a national competence. At the same time, good governance is recognisably in the interests of the EU as a whole, as well as individual Member States, to achieve maximum value from limited public funds.[1] Without effective public administrations, the EU¿s acquis cannot be effectively implemented, the internal European market cannot be completed, and the Europe's Green Agenda cannot be realistically achieved[2]. This includes capacity to design and implement high quality gender responsive strategies and programmes; to pursue evidence-based policymaking, enable citizens¿ participation and access to high quality services, and to recruit and train staff to implement public policy. The Overall objective of the Action is to promote good governance and increase the compliance with Union¿s values and their alignment with the Union¿s rules, standards and practices in the relevant fields because the quality of a country¿s public administration and governance is a key factor in its economic performance and wellbeing of its citizens. Its aim is to promote effective, accountable, inclusive and responsive institutions at all levels of government.The Action¿s Specific objective 1 is focused on interventions modernizing public administrations at all levels of government, as well as to be able to advance and respond to demands of EU integration processes. In this Action, it implies further development and enforcement of EU models for integrated territorial development on national and local level, as well as improving HRM strategic and legal framework and capacities of LSG for HRM and competences of employees to perform main LSG functions. The Specific objective 2 is targeting administrative capacities to align and implement the legislation and policies with EU, and to take obligations of EU membership with focus on institutional framework for EU Cohesion Policy. The Action will contribute to implementation of the SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. More specifically, it is contributing to Target 16.6 Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.