Team: José Ramón Pin, Ángela Gallifa and Lourdes Susaeta

If there is one revolution urgently pending, it is to organize Public Administration. Social development demands not only a public sector capable of offering more services with less taxes, but also that the public services provided have an increasing level of quality. A new model of management is required for the Public Sector, where the relationship with private companies and the third sector will doubtless become more intense. The nature of these relations as co-operative and not conflictive will certainly influence the development capacity of nations and their standard of living.

For this reason, the IRCO intends to actively promote improvement in public administration management and contact for effective collaboration between the administration and private companies.

Through IRCO, we promoted a series of committees that resulted in the drawing up of the "Libro Blanco para la mejora de los Servicios Públicos: una nueva Administración para el siglo XXI" (White Paper for the Improvement of Public Services: A New Administration for the 21st Century) , published by the Ministry of Public Administration.

Moreover, IRCO collaborates with training programs for the Police Directorate-General in the training of its officers, periodically drawing up specific programs oriented towards obtaining higher quality in the provision of services.

We are now working on the project, "Negocios y Administraciones Públicas" (Business and Public Administration), where representatives of both the Administration and private companies can communicate in a single forum, in order to intensify their communication channels. In order to make this project a reality, the collaboration of a sponsor company is needed.

IRCO collaborates with the Fundación Chandra through its project, Canal Solidario , which focuses on promoting projects by private companies in the social sphere. This foundation was a finalist at the 1st Edition of the Labor Relations Awards sponsored by IRCO, Adecco and Actualidad Económica.