The issues

The main challenges facing provinces and urban and local authorities nowadays include:

• Continual improvement in the efficiency and quality of public services
• Reacting to changes in workloads following transfers of competences
• Working with major budgetary constraints
• Guaranteeing finance for infrastructure Integrating new information and communications technologies
• Implementing human resource management policies
• Facing up to planning changes
• Promoting economic development

Our value-added

PricewaterhouseCoopers regularly contributes to the success of projects driven by public sector actors at local level in a number of ways: 

• Assistance in defining strategies and implementing new policies
• Policy and project monitoring and evaluation
• Introducing good governance mechanisms
• Optimising organisational structures, re-engineering processes and improving performance
• Assistance  in implementing HR policy and change guidance
• Help in negotiating, implementing and assessing management contracts
• Optimising public finances
• Administrative simplification, ICT and e-government
• Setting up internal audit and risk control systems
• Analysing, assessing, auditing and certifying operating and management methods taking account of global best practices
• Optimising public finances, tax advice and tax planning
• Identifying opportunities for urban, economic and environmental development