Is the Public Administration Reform Plan 2020 proceeding as planned and is the intended effect achieved?

BRIEFLY

• Are these really reforms? Only some of the 34 planned measures provided for significant changes.
• The meaning and main impetus of the reform disappeared when the Remuneration Law was not adopted in 2017. The amendments to the Remuneration Law of Officials and Employees of State and Municipal Institutions adopted last year, 4 years later, do not eliminate a number of paradoxes of the existing system.
• Increasing the efficiency of state administration processes remains a major challenge.
• The scope of the reform is too narrow covering only part of the state administration institutions and 21% of employees in public sector.

When assessing the implementation of the State Administration Reform Plan approved by the government in 2017 with the aim of creating an efficient, accountable and flexible state administration, the audit findings allow conclude that some of the set performance indicators have been achieved, but the reforms have not been effective in general as the use of term ‘reforms’ created expectations of high-quality change in entire state administration that have not materialised.