prove the bill with regard to clarification of practical aspects of practical aspects of public sector management that were left beyond regulation such as division of functional responsibilities among public sector institutions and relationship central and local authorities under the conceptual arrangements.The government, however, was strongly pushing the adoption of the law and deemed to get the approval by any means possible, although reformers recognised the weakness of the bill. This may be justified by the reasonable explanation that the Government wanted to start the implementation immediately without wasting time on the design issues and as they advocated, to see some first fruits of the reform before the next political election to be held in 2000. It has been quite ambitious to declare or believe that transitional programs will be completed by the year 2003.During the last period two big delegations consisting of the Parliament members, government senior officials, and representatives from the opposition party were sent to New Zealand and State of Victoria of Australia to learn practical experience of implementing the NPM ideas in these countries. In addition, a quite large number of national and international workshops were organised among different actors as part of the lobbying activities.Despite these significant efforts made by the advocates and lobbying measures the new law still has not received the final endorsement from the legislative authority. The opposition the adoption of the new law. There are only few people in the Government who are greatly impressed and strongly believe that the model will perfectly work in Mongolia. There is a great uncertainty about what will happen with the new program even in the immediate future.SUITABILITY OF THE NEW ZEALAND MODEL FOR MONGOLIAThe reasons explaining why the Government wants such a radical approach to public administration reform in the country are quite clear. The previou...
