About Us
The Public Management and Policy Association (PMPA) promotes the value of public management and public policy and brings people together to learn and deliver better public services.
It is committed to the diverse delivery of public services and to building successful partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors.
It is passionate about learning from experience, bringing together senior managers from across the public services to reflect and learn together. It bridges the divide between today’s public managers and those who study public management and policy in the UK universities.
The PMPA strives not only to reflect and debate these issues, but to change policy and delivery as a result.
PMPA Values
The PMPA stands for the highest standard of public management and policy, developed within a framework of vibrant democratic governance, in order to deliver the very best public services to the citizens of the UK.
PMPA Objectives
The PMPA promotes these values by
- encouraging public managers and policy-makers from across all sectors to share their experience, to reflect and to learn together in order to improve public services;
- supporting the exchange of ideas and information between academics and practitioners in order to improve public policy and public management;
- promoting study and research into public administration, public policy and public management in order to deliver continuous improvement.
PMPA Activities
The PMPA delivers these objectives by developing communities of public service managers, academics, policy-makers, commentators and those with an interest in public services; by continually seeking opportunities to bring these communities together to reflect; and by using its voice to influence the debate.
It facilitates programmes of discussions, debates and lectures, publications and other opportunities for these communities to meet, discuss and comment on the public policy and management issues of the day.
It supports organizations seeking to equip their future leaders to lead the delivery of high quality public services in the complex, diverse and integrated world of the future.
The Public Management and Policy Association is managed by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, its policies and activities overseen by the PMPA Board.