Kafkabrigade

Since 2005, the Kafka Brigade has produced a wealth of structured empirical case material on excessive bureaucracy in public services and law enforcement:

Registration of employees and prevention of illegal labour and tax evasion
Facilitating immigrant entrepreneurs in the food sector
Services for NEETs (Juveniles who are Not in Employment, Education or Training)
Complex application of building licenses for small structures
Inter-agency co-operation in infrastructural projects
Gate keeping procedures for medicare
Colliding administrative demands from different agencies
Voucher administration in ancillary services to the chronically ill
Restaurant licensing procedures
Re-integration of former inmates in society
Red tape in the administration of immigration
Burdensome application procedures for legal documents
Dysfunctional ‘One-stop-shops’ for business licensing
Red tape in child protective services
Regulations for volunteers assisting disabled people
Re-integration of structurally unemployed people in the labour market
Excessive bureaucracy bothering multidisciplinary teams of educators
Quickscan procedures for building off shore wind mills
Expert training program for the Health Department
Training program Dutch National Ombudsman
Train the trainer program social services The Hague
Unnecessary bureaucracy for primary school principals
Bureacratic barriers for psychiatric nurses
Dealing with school drop outs in two middle sized local governments