ANNEXTURE 1
AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT

CONDITIONS, PROCEDURES AND RULES OF COMPETITION

    1. Entries shall be made by a Ministry/Organization/Authority in the public service or a Department/Agency/Section/Division/Branch within it depending on the choice of the entrant.  All Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Public Sector Institutions, Local Governments and Municipal Authorities and Institutions of Higher Learning in African countries are eligible to participate in the competition.
    2. Awards will not be made to individuals but to public sector organizations.  All public sector organizations are eligible.

 

    3. Submissions shall be made on a prescribed entry form and shall not exceed 1,500 words with an executive summary of not more that 50 words.  All supporting materials shall be placed in an appendix.
    4. The call for submissions shall be made in October.  All submissions shall be received by the AAPAM Secretariat by the end of February of the following year.

 

    5.A submission entered in a previous competition, but which was not among the winners in that year, may be re-submitted for consideration by the Jury, provided that no submission shall be considered more than three times.
    6. The Jury shall consist of five (5) distinguished persons, including at least one academic, who are knowledgeable  in public sector management.

 

    7. The Jury will draw up a final list of 5 entrants.  The finalists will be invited to appear before the Jury to present and defend their submissions.  The Jury will then determine the winner for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.
    8. The five finalists will be given opportunity to present their entries at the Annual Roundtable Conference following which the Winners in the three categories will be announced and the Awards given.

 

    9. The decisions of the Jury shall be final; the Jury may decide not to award prizes if the submissions in any one year are not up to standards.
    10. The best three entrants shall receive the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in order of merit.  The other two finalists may receive recognition trophies.

 

    11. Entries may be made in either English or French.  All entries become the property of the African Association for Public Administration and Management.


AAPAM AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS           ANNEXTURE 2

1.   Innovativeness

That the entry is genuinely innovative within the public sector;  innovation being in the form of a successful experiment; the implementation of effective organizational change; the translation of new ideas into practice; or harnessing new technology. 

2.       Relevance

That the innovation has relevance with the main functions of the organization and spells out clearly the impetus for the change; purpose and objectives of the change; positive outlook for the future; potential implications for other organizations.

3.       Significance

That the benefits of the innovation, either actual or potential, are significant; significance can be local as well as national and should  not be valued simply on the ground of size and scale of benefits.

4.       Sustainability

The innovation has been implemented for a considerable period of time, and has shown evidence of being institutionalized and self-sustaining with local resources.

5.       Replication

The innovation has the potential of universal appeal, replication and transfer. Whether the innovation contains elements that can be adopted elsewhere to solve more or less similar problems in more or less similar organizations and country setups.



ANNEXURE 3

ENTRY FORM

AAPAM AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT COMPETITION

1.  Name and address of the organization, section or division making the 
     submission.

2.  Name of Project

3.  Name, title, telephone, fax numbers and email of the contact person.

4.  Number of employees in the organization, section or division.

5.  Describe in not more than 1,500 words on an attached sheet the managerial
     innovation, its nature and effects and the date of introduction.

Submission should include the following:

  1. impetus for the change
  2. purpose and objectives of the change
  3. the innovation itself
  4. how it was done
  5. results achieved to-date
  6. outlook for the future
  7. potential implications for other organizations

 

6.  Executive Summary

 

 

7.  Signature:

 

8.  Date: