PAR Monitor reports

The Public Administration Reform (PAR) Monitor methodology was firstly developed in 2015-2016, as part of the first Western Balkans Enabling Project for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform (WeBER) project. Since the onset, WeBER has adopted a markedly evidence-based approach in its endeavour to increase the relevance, participation and capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Western Balkans to advocate for and influence the design and implementation of PAR.

The PAR Monitor is one of the main WeBER products, embodying the evidence-based civil society monitoring of PAR. In line with WeBER’s focus on the region’s EU accession process, once the SIGMA Principles of Public Administration were revised in 2023, the WeBER PAR Monitor methodology was also redesigned in 2024. This was done in order to keep the focus of WeBER’s recommendations on EU-compliant reforms, thus guiding the governments in the region towards successful EU accession and future membership.

In the latest PAR Monitor cycle (2024/2025), WeBER introduced a new reporting and publishing approach, producing one report per reform area. For each area, one regional Western Balkans report and six national reports (one for each of the six WB countries) are published. These regional reports should be read alongside the national reports, which provide detailed monitoring results and country-specific recommendations.

Fourth monitoring cycle 2024/2025