Moldovan PM says public administration should serve citizens

Chisinau, 18 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today chaired a meeting of the national council for public administration reform. The participants in the event brought for discussion aspects on the Public Administration Reform (RAP), progress recorded so far and the goals for the next period.  

According to the government’s communication and media relations department, the PM stressed that the public administration reform was a strategic priority of the government, on which the successful carrying out of the related reforms, provided for in the Moldova-EU Association Agenda, as well as in the Agreement with IMF, depend. The prime minister reiterated the importance of the process of modernizing the way the public administration was working in the society. “The system must serve the citizen, this being the main principle on which the public administration should be based,” Filip noted. The PM also said that the public administration system should be strengthened, so that civil servants are properly motivated. Not in the least, the reform targets transparentization and optimizing processes, as well as modernizing the public services with the use of new methods and technologies.       

The prime minister said that the reform had started from the State Chancellery, which is to be reorganized till late 2016, noting that a structure would be set up, due to represent a true “Centre of Government.” Subsequently, the institutions of the central public administration and then the local ones will be reformed.  

The entire process is carried out based on the public administration reform strategy for 2016-2020. In this context, the members of the national council for public administration reform considered three basic subjects: action plan for 2016-2018 on implementation of the RAP Strategy, state register of the local public administration’s acts and aspects concerning the modernization of public services.  

According to the report unveiled, the short-term goal of the action plan is to consolidate and promote the reformation of the key systems horizontally and of the competent governance structures, especially the State Chancellery, in order to prepare needed capacities at the central level, to carry out the administrative and territorial reform.      

In the context, to ensure the transparency of the decision-making process at all levels of public administration, a state register of local public administration acts is to be created. The register will provide unlimited and free access of public authorities, citizens and business environment to the acts of the local public administration.    

As for the public services’ modernization, the participants in the meeting said these services should be as convenient and as accessible as possible for citizens and the business, as well as more efficient from the viewpoint of delivery costs. 

In the end of the meeting, Prime Minister Pavel Filip asked all institutions in charge to get involved as much as possible in achieving the goals dealing with modernization of public services. He stressed that rthe process of reforming the public administration would be treated with the greatest attention and responsibility possible.   

(Editor L. Alcaza)