Moldovan cabinet creates centre for reforms' implementation

Chisinau, 18 January /MOLDPRES/ - The cabinet of ministers today approved a decision on the setting up of Centre for Reforms’ Implementation, in order to achieve the goals of the government’s action programme and implement the strategy on public administration reform for 2016-2020, as well as optimize the process of reforms’ implementation.  

“This is a very important institution for us, in the context that we are set to turn   2017 and 2018 into years of reforms. It is not only about the public administration reform; we have an ambitious plan of reforms in other sectors as well,” Prime Minister Pavel Filip said.  

According to the status of the new institution, the founder of which will be the State Chancellery, the centre’s goals is to ensure efficient and coordinated implementation of the reforms at the government’s level, creating a modern and efficient system administration, assessing the degree of reforms’ implementation by the public authorities and organizational structures within the field of competence.

The basic duties of the Centre are reforms’ implementation, working out proposals of public policies and draft normative acts, cooperation with international institutions, in order to attract needed expertise and foreign assistance to implement the reforms and ensure the Centre’s functionality, assessing the degree of carrying out the reforms in the public administration system.

Similar institutions work in the United Kingdom, Albania, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries.   

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)