Page 1 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova World Bank November 4, 2004 Moscow 36144 Page 2 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 2 November 4, 2004 Table of Contents Introduction....................................................................................................................3 1. Approaches to Monitoring Governance Reforms: Review of International Experience......................................................................................................................4 2. Approaches to Developing a Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia..........................................................................................................9 3. Implementation of Public Administration Monitoring System in Russia: Issues and Approaches to Possible Solutions................................................................................19 Page 3 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 3 November 4, 2004 Introduction The paper was prepared per request of the Government of Russia and the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade in the framework of the Bank’s program for technical assistance to civil service reform in Russia. The paper was prepared by Yelena Dobrolyubova (ECSPE). Valuable comments were provided by John Litwack (ECSPE), Alexander Morozov (ECSPE), Neil Parison (ECSPE), Nick Manning (SASPR), and Gordon Evans (Consultant, ECSPE). The paper is based on the approaches to assessment of governance reforms developed by the World Bank, examples of public sector performance indicators used in the UK and the US, as well as application of a number of governance performance indicators during the preparation of a three-year programmatic adjustment program in Bulgaria. Besides, the paper built upon the draft “logical framework” prepared by the Donor Secretariat, as well as the program documents approved by the President and the Government of the Russian Federation ( Concept for Civil Service Reform in the Russian Federation approved by the RF President on August 15, 2001; Program Reforming the Civil Service of the Russian Federation (2003 – 2005) approved by the Presidential Decree No. 1335 dated November 19, 2002; Presidential Decree No. 824 On Measures for Implementation of the Administrative Reform in 2003 – 2004 dated July 23, 2003; Concept for Reforming of Budget Process in the Russian Federation (2004 – 2006) approved by the Government Resolution dated May 22, 2004). The paper proposes draft formulations for objectives and tasks of the public management reform; these formulations need further discussion, clearance, and approval. The following core principles served as a basis for development of the reform objectives and performance indicators: ƒ Principle of interrelation of various reforms in the area of public management; ƒ Possibility to separate certain reform areas (administrative, civil service, budget reforms) so as to take into account the implementation of the approved strategic/program documents and those under preparation; ƒ Possibility to conduct cross-country comparison of governance indicators. The proposed system of objectives and indicators is intended to be used for the federal executive bodies, but it can be adopted for the regional and municipal levels. The list of the proposed output and outcome indicators is not exhaustive and can be supplemented and adjusted in accordance with the possible changes in objectives and tasks of certain reforms, availability of data for performance measurement, etc. More detailed monitoring and evaluation systems may be developed for certain areas of public management reforms. The paper concludes with a number of issues related to development of public management reforms monitoring systems. Resolution of those issues requires additional research. Page 4 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 4 November 4, 2004 1. Approaches to Monitoring Governance Reforms: Review of International Experience Analysis of approaches to public management reforms monitoring demonstrates that the international practice can offer more diagnostic tools for evaluating the status of the public management system than the instruments allowing to perform on-going monitoring of the reform progress in this area. The diagnostic tools 1 include anti- corruption diagnostic, country procurement assessment reviews, country financial accountability assessments, as well as a number of sector-specific tools. 2 . While diagnostic tools help to create an adequate information base to evaluate the initial status of the public management system and allow to identify certain bottlenecks and deficiencies in this system, i.e. identify the areas of the future reforms, the monitoring instruments are intended for a regular measurement of implementation progress and impact of the reform activities aimed at eliminating those bottlenecks and deficiencies. Two main approaches used by international organizations to monitor governance reforms may be conditionally identified. The approach developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) program for Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (SIGMA) is based on assessment of the reform progress as compared to the baseline status in the following areas: ƒ Civil service; ƒ Management of Policy-Making; ƒ Public Expenditure Management; ƒ International Financial Control; ƒ External Audit; and ƒ Public Procurement. Assessment is based on comparison of the progress in each area with the OECD recommendations and often – especially in case of EU accession countries – with the EU standards. In the 1990s, the World Bank Institute developed alternative approach to assessment of governance development progress using an integral governance indicator (Governance Research Indicator Country Snapshot - GRICS). This indicator evaluates governance efficiency based on 6 indices reflecting 6 parameters of governance: voice and accountability; political stability and lack of violence; government effectiveness; regulatory quality; rule of law; and control of corruption 3 . 1 For more information on available diagnostic tools see PREM Notes. The Public Sector Governance Reform Cycle: Available Diagnostic Tools. No.88 July 2004 http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/PREMNotes/premnote88.pdf 2 For instance, revenue administrations diagnostic tool developed by the World Bank was used during the preparation of the Second Tax Administration Modernization Project in Russia. 3 For more information about this and other integral governance indicators see reference materials prepared by the Donor Secretariat Integral Indicators Of The Efficiency Of State Governance Reform , 2004, as well as the web-based database at http://info.worldbank.org/governance/kkz2002/ . Page 5 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 5 November 4, 2004 GRICS indicator has been applied widely 4 , since it allows for cross-country comparisons. The indicator has been calculated every two years since 1996. GRICS indicator as well as other integral governance indicators allow for a general assessment of public management systems in a specific country. However, this indicator does not allow to identify specific aspects of legal and regulatory base or specific government practices which result in a certain value of the indicator. To allow for a detailed analysis of the public management status , “second generation” indicators have been developed. These indicators can be characterized by the following specific features: ƒ They allow to monitor and evaluate public management systems without a linkage to specific program (reform) goals; ƒ They are intended to monitor performance of the executive, but may also be applied to other branches of power; ƒ They allow for cross-country comparisons (among a certain number of countries and with due account to methodological differences in the national statistics); ƒ They combine qualitative and quantitative performance indicators; ƒ They are linked to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, application of integral indicators (such as GRICS) to monitoring the progress of a particular set of public administration reform is associated with a number of limitations: ƒ Such indicators are largely based on expert assessments; though in the case of GRICS indicators a broad range of various sources is used to construct the indices, there may be a certain influence of subjective factors involved; ƒ Such indicators as GRICS, as well as various country ratings which are from time to time prepared by international organizations are of a comparative nature. For example, GRICS indicator evaluates the status of public management in a certain country as compared to other countries. Thus, in case a number of countries make a comparable progress in the area of governance, the value of GRICS for these countries may remain the same. On the contrary, should for some reason the quality of governance sharply deteriorate in a number of countries, the value of this indicator for a third country may unjustifiably grow; ƒ The number of countries included during the calculation of integral indicators may change; as a result a rating of a given country may be affected without any linkage to specific activities related to public management development undertaken in this country; 4 For instance, this indicator is used as one of the conditions for provision of funds from the Millennium Development Fund. Page 6 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 6 November 4, 2004 Box 1. Examples of “Second Generation” Governance Indicators - Constraints to the Executive o Formal horizontal (Delay in presentation of external audit of budget implementation to Parliament; number of citizens and businesses that has litigated against executive entity); o Informal horizontal (Political appointees in the civil service) o Inter-governmental vertical (Budgetary autonomy of sub-national government, e.g. sub-national expenditures (revenues) as a share of GDP) ; o Vertical checks from electorate (Literacy rate) - Executive capabilities o Process indicators (Central government wage bill/GDP; Average government wage to per capita GDP) ƒ It may be problematic to identify the reasons for a particular dynamics of these indicators (with the extent of detail which allows to identify the problem areas in a national reform program); ƒ Often international indicators are not calculated on an annual basis; some international indicators may be measured on an ad hoc basis 5 . To sum up, GRICS and other broad aggregate perception based indicators, such as corruption perception index which is annually published by Transparency International might be helpful in illuminating at reflecting any general changes in public view of the state. To identify actual improvements in specific institutional arrangements, a narrower and more objective set of “second generation” indicators has been developed. “Second generation” indicators system is based on the assumption that the executive operates in the system of certain internal and external constraints and has some capacity to carry out its operations. This capacity may be evaluated through process and performance indicators. Examples of the “second generation” indicators are presented in the Box 1. Noteworthy, the “second generation” governance indicators significantly vary as far as the time and extent of external impacts are concerned: while service delivery indicators are unlikely to be affected in the short term by institutional reforms, some “internal” measures (related to staffing numbers, financing, etc.) can reflect public administration reforms quite quickly but might have little resonance for the public. At the individual country level, governance performance indicators are usually of “target” nature and are linked to achievement of the national priorities in terms of delivering particular public services or introducing improved operational processes. In the UK, achievement of such priorities is expelled in a certain list of target indicators assigned to certain departments responsible for achieving those targets. Examples of objectives and performance indicators assigned to the Cabinet Office in the area of public management are presented in Box 2. The practice of monitoring of performance indicators achievement in the UK could also be of some interest. The 5 Corruption perception indices (CPIs) measured by the Transparency International on an annual basis present a notable exception to this statement. For more information see reference materials prepared by the Donor Secretariat Integral Indicators Of The Efficiency Of State Governance Reform , 2004. Page 7 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 7 November 4, 2004 Prime-Minister selects 30 – 40 top priority indicators out of the total of over a hundred of national indicators and assigns the function of monitoring of achievement of those priority targets to the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Individual Departments responsible for the priority targets supported by the staff from this Unit develop an action plan to achieve those indicators. The action plan should contain certain milestones (activities necessary for achieving the indicator) and intermediate values of the priority performance indicators which depend on how quickly the activities undertaken can translate into an ultimate policy impact. Delivery Unit conducts regular monitoring of the action plan implementation through comparison of the actual dynamics of the indicator values with the planned indicator values ( the trajectory ). Such analysis allows to introduce timely adjustments to the action plan or some changes into the government policy in a certain area. Besides, there is some experience in conducting comprehensive evaluations of government performance at a country level. The Government Performance Project in the US presents an example when based on surveys, documentary reviews, and interviews, all sub-national (state, city and county) governments were given certain performance ratings in the following areas: financial management, capital management, human resource management, IT management, and management for results. The evaluation methodology allowed to identify “bottlenecks” in the sub- national administrations performance and develop a set of measures for improvements in certain areas of their activity. Noteworthy, performance evaluation was not exclusively based on the analysis of the government performance outcomes; rather, it took into account the linkage between the efficiency in managing the resources and the quality of public service delivery 6 . 6 For more information see Paths to Performance in State and Local Government. Government Performance Project. Maxwell School of Syracuse University http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/gpp/ Box 2. Examples of Objectives and Performance Indicators for the UK Cabinet Office Performance Evaluation Strategic Objective of the Cabinet Office (Aim): support the Government’s delivery and reform program Objective 2: Support the Government in transacting its business Performance Indicator (target) : ensure departments deliver better regulation through: o Full compliance with the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) process; and o Delivering the commitments of the Regulatory Reform Action Plan, including over Regulatory Reform Orders by 2005 . Results achieved by January 1, 2003 : o Level of RIA compliance as of December 2002 accounts for 92% o 12 Regulatory Reform Orders have been enacted since 2001 Objective 3: Help deliver key public services Performance Target: Ensure departments meet the Prime - Minister’s targets for electronic service delivery by Government: 100% capability by 2005 with key services achieving high levels of use Performance Indicators : o Share of government services available on-line o Percentage of adults using or accessing online government/official services Results : o 54% of government services are available on-line (March 2002) o 10,4% of adults use or access online government/official services (4 th quarter of 2002) Source: UK Treasury web-site http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/performance/Cabinet_Office.cfm Page 8 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 8 November 4, 2004 The countries implementing broad public administration reforms face a challenge of monitoring the implementation progress of the reform programs themselves which requires development of focused performance indicators linked specifically to program measures and objectives. In Bulgaria, such performance measurements were formed in compliance with the strategic guidelines laid down in the Strategy of State Administration – from Accession to Integration, 2003 – 2006 (Box 3). For overall assessment of the governance improvement progress, such focused indicators tracking the specific changes promised by a national reform program have been introduced should be complemented by a broader set of indicators that identify whether government actions have led to any lasting changes in the public sector performance. Hence, given the need to monitor and assess a set of large scale public management reforms that are currently being implemented in Russia, it seems expedient to develop a comprehensive approach that would allow to link various reform programs and evaluate their efficiency vis- ΰ-vis the strategic objectives set by the Government. Box 3: Monitoring State Administration Reforms in Bulgaria: Examples of Performance Measures Strategy Area: Planning and Implementing the Strategic Goals of Administration’s Activity Performance measures used to assess progress: - Share of public administration bodies that have clear strategic frameworks for goals and results; - Share of territorial administrations that have clear strategic frameworks; - Share of public servants aware of the priorities pursued by the public administration bodies they are working in; - Share of strategic goals attained; - Number of public administration bodies which changed their organic rules during the past year; Number of functions transferred to other administrative level. Page 9 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 9 November 4, 2004 2. Approaches to Developing a Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia The recent empirical research suggests that governance quality influences the inflows of foreign investment 7 while transparency of public institutions and efficient mechanisms of external accountability are closely related to the economic growth rates 8 . Finally, there is a correlation between the quality of public services and poverty levels 9 . Thus, improving public management efficiency becomes one of the pre-conditions for a sustainable social and economic development and improving welfare of the population. A number of reforms aimed at improving the quality of public management both at the federal and at the sub-national level are currently being prepared and implemented in Russia. The magnitude of change in the public sector, a large number of interrelated activities, simultaneous implementation of reforms in various areas of state governance complicate the task of monitoring and assessment of the reform outcomes. Therefore, for the purpose of developing a public management reform monitoring system, it was proposed to differentiate between the key areas of the reforms: administrative reform, civil service reform, and budget reforms. In accordance with such differentiation, the key objectives of public management reforms at the federal level were formulated (Figure 1). It should also be noted that there is a number of sectoral modernization programs which contribute to development of public institutions in certain spheres (modernization of the treasury, tax administration, etc.) Strategic Goal : Improve public management efficiency so as to support the objectives of social and economic development Objective 1: Develop an optimal structure of federal executive bodies and allocation of functions between them to ensure efficient performance of public administration and improve quality of public services Objective 2: Reduce the level of state regulation in the economy Objective 3: Improve professionalism, prestige, and competitiveness of the civil service Objective 4: Improve efficiency and effectiveness of budget expenditures Objective 5: Strengthen transparency and external accountability of public administration Administrative Reform Civil Service Reform Budget Reform Budget and Administrative Reforms Figure1. Objectives of Public Administration Reforms in Russia Taken into account the limitations of international integral governance indicators outlined in the previous section, it seems expedient to analyze such 7 Public Sector Transparency and the International Investor. OECD. 2003 . 8 Kaufmann. Rethinking Governance. Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy. World Bank 2003 9 Making Services Work for Poor People? World Development Report 2004. World Bank. Page 10 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 10 November 4, 2004 indicators as a set based on the assumption that possible deviations in values of these indicators are not of systemic nature. Besides, it should be noted that the values of these indicators are largely of reference nature, and analysis of these indicators without any linkages to the outcome and output level indicators may lead to misinterpretation and incorrect conclusions. Thus, monitoring and assessment of public management reforms should be largely based on outcome and output indicators constructed in accordance with the objectives and tasks of the reforms. Table 1 presents some proposals on formulation of the objectives and tasks for the selected reform areas. Outcome- level indicators are proposed to measure the progress towards reforms objectives, while output-level indicators have been constructed to gauge the success of separate reform tasks and activities. The proposed structure of objectives and tasks is preliminary and requires further clarification once the appropriate conceptual and program documents in the area of administrative reform are approved. The list of the proposed performance indicators is not exhaustive and largely builds upon international practices. Certainly, diagnostic tools and country examples provide a much broader range of possible performance measures of public administration indicators. The performance indicators included into the table were selected as (i) these seem to be more relevant to the country context; (ii) many of such indicators have been successfully used in other countries; (iii) the indicators are to be drawn from a variety of data sources, including internal data, surveys, self-assessment techniques, legal documents, etc., and therefore provide some objectivity of the assessment. Page 11 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 1 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 T a b l e 1 . M o n i t o r i n g S y s t e m f o r P u b l i c M a n a g e m e n t R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a R e f o r m a r e a s O b j e c t i v e s a n d t a s k s O u t c o m e p e r f o r m a n c e i n d i c a t o r s / o u t p u t i n d i c a t o r s D a t a s o u r c e s Administrative reform O b j e c t i v e 1 : D e v e l o p a n o p t i m a l s t r u c t u r e o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s a n d a l l o c a t i o n o f f u n c t i o n s b e t w e e n t h e m t o e n s u r e e f f i c i e n t p e r f o r m a n c e o f p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d i m p r o v e q u a l i t y o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s ƒ P u b l i c p e r c e p t i o n s o n a c c e s s i b i l i t y a n d q u a l i t y o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s 1 0 ; ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s o r i e n t a t i o n t o s e r v i c e d e l i v e r y ; i n s t i t u t i o n a l c l i m a t e i n t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ; ƒ S h a r e o f t h e a p p r o v e d s e r v i c e s t a n d a r d s a n d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s t h a t a r e b e i n g a d h e r e d t o ; ƒ S e r v i c e d e l i v e r y s u r v e y s ( W B ) ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – b a s e l i n e s u r v e y i n 2 0 0 3 , W B – r e p e a t s u r v e y s i n 2 0 0 4 , 2 0 0 5 ) ƒ I n d e p e n d e n t m o n i t o r i n g b y N G O s , s e l f - a s s e s s m e n t b y p u b l i c a u t h o r i t i e s T a s k 1 . 1 . O p t i m i z e s t r u c t u r e a n d s t a f f i n g o f p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d s u b o r d i n a t e o r g a n i z a t i o n s ƒ N u m b e r o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s b y t y p e o f b o d y ; ƒ V a c a n c y r a t e ; ƒ N u m b e r o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s a s a % t o p o p u l a t i o n ; ƒ C i v i l s e r v a n t s w a g e b i l l a s a % t o G D P ( f e d e r a l b u d g e t e x p e n d i t u r e s ) 1 1 ƒ S h a r e o f a c t u a l l y r e s t r u c t u r e d / e l i m i n a t e d s u b o r d i n a t e o r g a n i z a t i o n s o u t o f t h e t o t a l n u m b e r o f o r g a n i z a t i o n s t o b e r e s t r u c t u r e d / e l i m i n a t e d a s a p p r o v e d b y t h e C o m m i s s i o n o n A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e f o r m ƒ D y n a m i c s o f s t a f f i n g o f a n d e x p e n d i t u r e s o n s u b o r d i n a t e o r g a n i z a t i o n s ƒ L e g a l a n d r e g u l a t o r y b a s e ; ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a ; ƒ F e d e r a l s t a t i s t i c a l s e r v i c e d a t a ; ƒ D e c i s i o n s o f t h e C o m m i s s i o n o n A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e f o r m T a s k 1 . 2 . O p t i m i z e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s f u n c t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e f u n c t i o n a l r e v i e w r e s u l t s ƒ S h a r e o f a c t u a l l y e l i m i n a t e d ( t r a n s f e r r e d t o a n o t h e r l e v e l , t o s e l f - r e g u l a t i n g o r g a n i z a t i o n s , c o m m e r c i a l i z e d ) f u n c t i o n s b a s e d o n f u n c t i o n a l r e v i e w o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s a s c o m p a r e d t o t h e n u m b e r o f f u n c t i o n s t h a t h a v e t o b e e l i m i n a t e d ( t r a n s f e r r e d t o a n o t h e r l e v e l , t o s e l f - r e g u l a t i n g o r g a n i z a t i o n s , c o m m e r c i a l i z e d ) a c c o r d i n g t o t h e d e c i s i o n o f t h e C o m m i s s i o n o n A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e f o r m ; ƒ N u m b e r o f e l i m i n a t e d / n e w l y e s t a b l i s h e d p o s i t i o n s b a s e d o n f u n c t i o n a l r e v i e w o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a ; ƒ D e c i s i o n s o f t h e C o m m i s s i o n o n A d m i n i s t r a t i v e R e f o r m T a s k 1 . 3 . O p t i m i z e b u s i n e s s p r o c e s s e s ƒ N u m b e r o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h h a v e c r e a t e d c o m m i s s i o n s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s 1 0 O t h e r c o m p o n e n t s o f p u b l i c m a n a g e m e n t r e f o r m s , s u c h a s c i v i l s e r v i c e r e f o r m a n d b u d g e t r e f o r m s , m a y a l s o a f f e c t t h e d y n a m i c s o f t h i s i n d i c a t o r . A p o s s i b i l i t y t o u s e t h i s i n d i c a t o r a s a m e a s u r e m e n t f o r t h e s t r a t e g i c g o a l a c h i e v e m e n t m a y b e c o n s i d e r e d . 1 1 T o p r o v i d e f o r c r o s s - c o u n t r y c o m p a r i s o n s , d e v e l o p m e n t o f a d d i t i o n a l m e t h o d o l o g y i s n e e d e d ( g i v e n t h e s p e c i f i c s o f p u b l i c s e c t o r s t a t i s t i c s i n R u s s i a a n d a b r o a d ) Page 12 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 2 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 a n d i n t r o d u c e a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s a n d p u b l i c s e r v i c e s t a n d a r d s o n a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s d e v e l o p m e n t ; ƒ N u m b e r o f a p p r o v e d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s o n f u n c t i o n s a n d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s o f i n t e r a g e n c y i n t e r a c t i o n ; ƒ S h a r e o f a p p r o v e d a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s w h i c h a l l o w e d t o c u t t i m e / i m p r o v e q u a l i t y o f p u b l i c f u n c t i o n s p e r f o r m a n c e ; ƒ N u m b e r o f e x t e r n a l c o m p l a i n t s ( f r o m c i t i z e n s a n d l e g a l b o d i e s ) o n n o n - c o m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s ; s h a r e o f s u c h a p p e a l s w h i c h h a v e b e e n c o n s i d e r e d i n t h e f a v o r o f e x t e r n a l p e r s o n s ; ƒ S h a r e o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s w i t h t h e a p p r o v e d d e l i v e r y s t a n d a r d s i n t o t a l n u m b e r o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s ; ƒ N u m b e r o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h c a r r y o u t r e g u l a r m o n i t o r i n g a n d a s s e s s m e n t o f s e r v i c e d e l i v e r y ; ƒ S h a r e o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n o n q u a l i t y o f s e r v i c e d e l i v e r y p l a c e d o n t h e o f f i c i a l w e b - s i t e s o f t h e f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ; ƒ S h a r e o f e l e c t r o n i c a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s i n t o t a l n u m b e r o f a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s ; ƒ S h a r e o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s d e l i v e r e d b a s e d o n “ s i n g l e w i n d o w ” a p p r o a c h ; ƒ S h a r e o f e - s e r v i c e s i n t o t a l v o l u m e o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s ( e v a l u a t e d a s a s h a r e o f s e r v i c e s w h i c h m a y b e p r o v i d e d e l e c t r o n i c a l l y a n d a n u m b e r o f a c t u a l e - t r a n s a c t i o n s ) d a t a ƒ D a t a f r o m C o m m i s s i o n s o n a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g u l a t i o n s d e v e l o p m e n t ƒ S e r v i c e d e l i v e r y s u r v e y s ƒ W e b - s i t e s m o n i t o r i n g r e s u l t s Administrative Reform O b j e c t i v e 2 : R e d u c e t h e l e v e l o f s t a t e r e g u l a t i o n i n t h e e c o n o m y ƒ P e r c e p t i o n s o f t h e l e v e l o f a d m i n i s t r a t i v e b a r r i e r s i n s e l e c t e d s p h e r e s o f e c o n o m i c a c t i v i t y ƒ G r o w i n g s h a r e o f S M E s i n G D P a n d t o t a l e m p l o y m e n t ƒ G r o w i n g s h a r e o f p r i v a t e s e c t o r i n G D P ƒ M o n i t o r i n g o f d e r e g u l a t i o n r e f o r m s ( C E F I R ) ƒ B u s i n e s s s u r v e y s ( W B – B E E P S ) ƒ F e d e r a l S t a t i s t i c a l S e r v i c e d a t a T a s k 2 . 1 . 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D e v e l o p m e n t o f s e l f - r e g u l a t e d o r g a n i z a t i o n s ( S R O ) s y s t e m i n e c o n o m i c s p h e r e ; o r g a n i z a t i o n a l s e p a r a t i o n o f f u n c t i o n s r e l a t e d t o e c o n o m i c a c t i v i t y r e g u l a t i o n , o v e r s i g h t a n d c o n t r o l , p u b l i c p r o p e r t y m a n a g e m e n t a n d p u b l i c s e r v i c e d e l i v e r y ƒ S h a r e o f c o n t r o l a n d i n s p e c t i o n f u n c t i o n s t r a n s f e r r e d t o S R O s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a Civil Service Reform O b j e c t i v e 3 : I m p r o v e p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m , p r e s t i g e , a n d c o m p e t i t i v e n e s s o f t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ƒ P u b l i c p e r c e p t i o n s o f c i v i l s e r v i c e p r e s t i g e a n d q u a l i t y o f p u b l i c o f f i c i a l s ’ w o r k ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s ’ p e r c e p t i o n s o f c i v i l s e r v i c e p r e s t i g e a n d i m p o r t a n c e o f m e r i t i n t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ƒ P o l i c y c r e d i b i l i t y i n d e x ( a l l o w s t o e v a l u a t e w h e t h e r ( i ) p o l i c i e s w e r e c o n s i s t e n t ; ( i i ) p o l i c i e s w e r e c l e a r l y c o m m u n i c a t e d t o e m p l o y e e s ; ( i i i ) p o l i c e s w e r e s u p p o r t e d b y e m p l o y e e s ; ( i v ) t h e r e w a s p o l i t i c a l i n t e r f e r e n c e / m i c r o - m a n a g e m e n t . ) ƒ R u l e c r e d i b i l i t y i n d e x c o v e r i n g t h e i s s u e s o f r u l e s i n r e c r u i t m e n t ; r u l e s i n e v a l u a t i o n / p e r f o r m a n c e m a n a g e m e n t / a p p r a i s a l ; r u l e s i n t r a i n i n g ; r u l e s i n r e c o r d i n g ; f a i r n e s s i n t r e a t m e n t o f i n d i v i d u a l s ; p r e d i c t a b i l i t y o f i n d i v i d u a l e m p l o y e e s ’ c a r e e r p a t h s . ƒ T u r n o v e r r a t e a t t h e p o s i t i o n s o f d i v i s i o n / d e p a r t m e n t h e a d s a n d d e p u t y h e a d s o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s a t t h e r e a p p o i n t m e n t o f h e a d s o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ( d e p o l i t i z a t i o n ) ƒ P u b l i c s u r v e y s ( c o n d u c t e d b y M o E D T u n d e r t h e p r o g r a m ) ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – b a s e l i n e s u r v e y i n 2 0 0 3 , W B – r e p e a t s u r v e y s i n 2 0 0 4 , 2 0 0 5 ) ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a T a s k 3 . 1 1 2 C r e a t i o n o f c o n d i t i o n s f o r o p t i m a l o r g a n i z a t i o n a l a n d l e g a l s u p p o r t t o t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ƒ P r o g r e s s i n d e v e l o p m e n t o f m o d e r n l e g a l a n d r e g u l a t o r y b a s e f o r s t r u c t u r i n g a n d f u n c t i o n i n g o f t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ( a d o p t i o n o f t h e l a w O n C i v i l i a n P u b l i c S e r v i c e a n d a p p r o p r i a t e r e g u l a t o r y a c t s t h a t a l l o w t o i m p l e m e n t n e w p r i n c i p l e s o f c i v i l s e r v i c e m a n a g e m e n t ) ƒ A s s e s s m e n t m a d e b y i n t e r n a t i o n a l o r g a n i z a t i o n s ( i . e . , O E C D ) T a s k 3 . 2 . 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I n t r o d u c t i o n o f n e w m e t h o d s ƒ S h a r e o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h i n t r o d u c e d p e r f o r m a n c e - ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s 1 2 T h e t a s k s a r e f o r m u l a t e d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e P r o g r a m R e f o r m i n g t h e C i v i l S e r v i c e o f t h e R u s s i a n F e d e r a t i o n ( 2 0 0 3 – 2 0 0 5 ) Page 14 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 4 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 o f p l a n n i n g , f i n a n c i n g , s t i m u l a t i o n a n d e v a l u a t i o n o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s ’ p e r f o r m a n c e ; r a t i o n a l a l l o c a t i o n o f r e s o u r c e s i n t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e s y s t e m b a s e d p a y p r i n c i p l e ; ƒ D y n a m i c s o f p u b l i c o f f i c i a l s r e m u n e r a t i o n s t r u c t u r e ( b a s e s a l a r y , a l l o w a n c e s , p e r f o r m a n c e - b a s e d b o n u s e s ) ƒ S h a r e o f b e n e f i t s r e s t r u c t u r e d i n t o a c a s h f o r m ƒ R a t i o o f p a y a n d b e n e f i t l e v e l s i n f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s a n d i n t h e p r i v a t e s e c t o r ƒ R a t i o o f a v e r a g e f e d e r a l p u b l i c o f f i c i a l r e m u n e r a t i o n t o p e r - c a p i t a G D P ƒ C o m p r e s s i o n r a t i o f o r t h e f e d e r a l c i v i l s e r v i c e ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s a t t i t u d e s t o t h e p r o c e d u r e o f p e r i o d i c a t t e s t a t i o n a n d i t s c o r r e l a t i o n w i t h p a y / p r o m o t i o n ƒ N u m b e r o f d i s c i p l i n a r y s a n c t i o n s i m p o s e d o n p u b l i c o f f i c i a l s f o r n o n - p e r f o r m a n c e o f t h e i r o f f i c i a l d u t i e s d a t a ƒ F e d e r a l S t a t i s t i c a l S e r v i c e d a t a ƒ C o m p a r a t i v e p u b l i c - p r i v a t e p a y a n d b e n e f i t s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – f e d e r a l l e v e l , 2 0 0 3 ; W B – r e g i o n a l l e v e l 2 0 0 4 a n d 2 0 0 5 , f e d e r a l l e v e l – 2 0 0 5 ) T a s k 3 . 4 . E n s u r e o p e n n e s s o f t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e t o t h e b e n e f i t o f t h e c i v i c s o c i e t y d e v e l o p m e n t a n d s t r e n g t h e n i n g t h e s t a t e O u t c o m e a n d o u t p u t p e r f o r m a n c e i n d i c a t o r s r e l a t e d t o t h i s t a s k a r e p r e s e n t e d u n d e r t h e O b j e c t i v e 5 “ S t r e n g t h e n t r a n s p a r e n c y a n d e x t e r n a l a c c o u n t a b i l i t y o f p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ” T a s k 3 . 5 . A p p l i c a t i o n o f e f f i c i e n t m e t h o d s f o r s e l e c t i o n o f h i g h l y q u a l i f i e d c a d r e t o t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e , p u b l i c o f f i c i a l s p e r f o r m a n c e e v a l u a t i o n , a s w e l l a s c r e a t i o n o f c o n d i t i o n s f o r c a r e e r g r o w t h ƒ S h a r e o f v a c a n c i e s f i l l e d b a s e d o n o p e n c o m p e t i t i o n r e s u l t s ( % ) ; ƒ S h a r e o f v a c a n c i e s f i l l e d c o m p e t i t i v e l y b y e x t e r n a l c a n d i d a t e s ; ƒ A v e r a g e n u m b e r o f c a n d i d a t e s p e r o n e c i v i l s e r v i c e p o s i t i o n ; ƒ S h a r e o f v a c a n c i e s f i l l e d f r o m a p e r s o n n e l p o o l ; ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s p e r c e p t i o n o f s e l e c t i o n a n d p r o m o t i o n p r o c e d u r e s i n t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e ; ƒ S h a r e o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s p r o m o t e d b a s e d o n t h e r e s u l t s o f p e r i o d i c e v a l u a t i o n ( a t t e s t a t i o n ) ƒ V a c a n c y r a t e i n t h e f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ; ƒ T u r n o v e r r a t e s i n t h e f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – b a s e l i n e s u r v e y i n 2 0 0 3 , W B – r e p e a t s u r v e y s i n 2 0 0 4 , 2 0 0 5 ) 3 . 6 I m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s t r a i n i n g p r o g r a m s a n d p r o v i s i o n o f s u p p o r t t o p u b l i c o f f i c i a l s p r o f e s s i o n a l d e v e l o p m e n t ƒ S h a r e o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s w h o h a v e b e e n r e - t r a i n e d / a t t e n d e d s k i l l s u p g r a d i n g c o u r s e s ƒ S h a r e o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s w h o l e f t c i v i l s e r v i c e w i t h i n a y e a r a f t e r h a v i n g r e c e i v e d r e - t r a i n i n g c o u r s e s ƒ S h a r e o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s t r a i n i n g p r o g r a m s a d j u s t e d t o t a k e i n t o a c c o u n t t h e m o d e r n a p p r o a c h e s t o p u b l i c m a n a g e m e n t ( m e t h o d o l o g y f o r p r o g r a m s a s s e s s m e n t n e e d s t o b e d e v e l o p e d ) ƒ E v a l u a t i o n o f t r a i n i n g a n d r e - t r a i n i n g p r o g r a m s q u a l i t y b y c i v i l s e r v a n t s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a ƒ D a t a f r o m t h e R u s s i a n A c a d e m y f o r C i v i l S e r v i c e ( R A G S ) , e t c . ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – b a s e l i n e s u r v e y i n 2 0 0 3 , W B – r e p e a t s u r v e y s i n 2 0 0 4 , 2 0 0 5 ) Page 15 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 5 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 T a s k 3 . 7 . I n t r o d u c t i o n o f t h e m e c h a n i s m s f o r i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a n d r e s o l u t i o n o f t h e c o n f l i c t o f i n t e r e s t s i n t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e a s w e l l a s l e g a l r e g u l a t i o n o f c i v i l s e r v a n t s p r o f e s s i o n a l e t h i c s ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s p e r c e p t i o n s o f t h e e x t e n t o f a d h e r e n c e t o e t h i c n o r m s ; ƒ N u m b e r o f d i s c i p l i n a r y s a n c t i o n s a g a i n s t c i v i l s e r v a n t s a p p l i e d i n c a s e s o f c o n f l i c t o f i n t e r e s t ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ( D F I D – b a s e l i n e s u r v e y i n 2 0 0 3 , W B – r e p e a t s u r v e y s i n 2 0 0 4 , 2 0 0 5 ) ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a T a s k 3 . 8 . 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E n s u r e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e c i v i l s e r v i c e m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m ƒ E s t a b l i s h m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f a b o d y i n c h a r g e o f c o o r d i n a t i o n a c t i v i t i e s f o r c i v i l s e r v i c e m a n a g e m e n t ƒ E s t a b l i s h m e n t a n d m a i n t e n a n c e o f f e d e r a l c i v i l s e r v a n t s r e g i s t e r ƒ P r e p a r a t i o n o f r e g u l a r r e p o r t s o n t h e s t a t u s o f c i v i l s e r v i c e u s i n g c i v i l s e r v i c e p e r f o r m a n c e i n d i c a t o r s ƒ D a t a f r o m t h e b o d y i n c h a r g e o f c i v i l s e r v i c e m a n a g e m e n t Budget Reforms O b j e c t i v e 4 : I m p r o v e e f f i c i e n c y a n d e f f e c t i v e n e s s o f b u d g e t e x p e n d i t u r e s ƒ I m p r o v e m e n t s i n q u a l i t y a n d a c c e s s i b i l i t y o f p u b l i c s e r v i c e s p e r 1 r o u b l e o f e x p e n d i t u r e s f o r s e r v i c e d e l i v e r y b y t y p e s o f s e r v i c e s ƒ P e r c e p t i o n o f f a i r n e s s o f p u b l i c p r o c u r e m e n t s y s t e m b y b u s i n e s s c o m m u n i t y ƒ B u s i n e s s s u r v e y s ( B E E P S ) ƒ S e r v i c e d e l i v e r y s u r v e y s ( W B ) ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a T a s k 4 . 1 . I m p r o v e t h e q u a l i t y o f b u d g e t p l a n n i n g a n d i n c r e a s e t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f t h e m e d i u m - t e r m f i n a n c i a l p l a n ƒ D e v i a t i o n o f b u d g e t a l l o c a t i o n s p r o v i d e d f o r i n t h e L a w O n t h e F e d e r a l B u d g e t f r o m t h o s e i n t h e m e d i u m - t e r m f i n a n c i a l p l a n , % ƒ A v e r a g e d e v i a t i o n o f a c t u a l b u d g e t e x p e n d i t u r e s ( b a s e d o n d e p a r t m e n t a l c l a s s i f i c a t i o n ) f r o m t h o s e p r o v i d e d f o r i n t h e L a w O n t h e F e d e r a l B u d g e t ( w i t h o u t f u r t h e r a m e n d m e n t s ) , % ƒ M e d i u m - t e r m f i n a n c i a l p l a n , L a w O n t h e F e d e r a l B u d g e t , d a t a o n f e d e r a l b u d g e t e x e c u t i o n T a s k 4 . 2 S t r e a m l i n e p r o c e d u r e s f o r f e d e r a l b u d g e t p r e p a r a t i o n a n d a p p r o v a l ƒ F e d e r a l b u d g e t e x p e n d i t u r e s a r e d i v i d e d i n t o t h e b u d g e t o f a s s u m e d c o m m i t m e n t s a n d t h e b u d g e t o f n e w c o m m i t m e n t s ƒ L a w O n t h e F e d e r a l B u d g e t , B u d g e t C o d e , r e g u l a t o r y d o c u m e n t s i s s u e d b y G o v e r n m e n t a n d M i n F i n Page 16 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 6 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 Budget and Administrative Reforms T a s k 4 . 3 . 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I m p r o v e q u a l i t y o f b u d g e t p l a n n i n g a t d e p a r t m e n t a l l e v e l ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h t h e q u a l i t y o f b u d g e t p l a n n i n g m e e t i n g t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s ƒ M i n F i n d a t a T a s k 4 . 5 . E s t i m a t e c o s t s p e r i t e m o f r e s u l t s b y e a c h t y p e o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s a c t i v i t y ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h e s t i m a t i o n a n d m a n a g e m e n t o f b u d g e t e x p e n d i t u r e l e v e l s p e r u n i t c o s t o f t h e p e r f o r m a n c e r e s u l t s m e e t t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s ƒ M i n F i n d a t a T a s k 4 . 6 . 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S t r e n g t h e n f i n a n c i a l m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m a t t h e l e v e l o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h f i n a n c i a l m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m s m e e t i n g t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s i n t h e a r e a o f c o n t r o l a n d m a n a g e m e n t o f a v a i l a b l e r e s o u r c e s , f i n a n c i a l c o m m i t m e n t s , a n d ƒ M i n F i n d a t a 1 3 T h e i n d i c a t o r m a y b e u s e d s h o u l d t h e p r o v i s i o n s o f t h e F e d e r a l L a w N o . 9 7 r e s t r i c t i n g t h e p a r t i c i p a t i o n o f f o r e i g n c o m p a n i e s i n p r o c u r e m e n t o f g o o d s a n d s e r v i c e s f o r p u b l i c n e e d s b e a m e n d e d . Page 17 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 7 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 p a y m e n t s T a s k 4 . 8 . I m p r o v e o p e r a t i o n a l r e l e v a n c e a n d t i m e l i n e s s o f d a t a a v a i l a b i l i t y i n t h e f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s ’ f i n a n c i a l r e p o r t i n g i n f o r m a t i o n s y s t e m a n d p e r f o r m a n c e r e p o r t i n g s y s t e m w h i c h i s b e i n g d e v e l o p e d ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h f i n a n c i a l a n d p e r f o r m a n c e r e p o r t i n g s y s t e m s m e e t i n g t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s t o a u t o m a t e d a c c o u n t i n g a n d r e p o r t i n g , l i n k i n g f i n a n c i a l i n f o r m a t i o n t o s p e c i f i c p e r f o r m a n c e i n d i c a t o r s ( r e s u l t s ) , m o n i t o r i n g o f e x p e n d i t u r e l e v e l p e r p e r f o r m a n c e r e s u l t u n i t ƒ M i n F i n d a t a T a s k 4 . 9 . D e v e l o p a s s e t m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h a s s e t m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m m e e t i n g t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s t o m a i n t a i n i n g c u r r e n t a s s e t s r e g i s t e r s , i d e n t i f y i n g t h e n e e d s i n m a i n t e n a n c e , r e n o v a t i o n , r e n e w a l o f a s s e t s , m a n a g e m e n t o f u n i t a r y e n t e r p r i s e s , s t a t e - o w n e d e n t e r p r i s e s , e n t e r p r i s e s w i t h s t a t e p a r t i c i p a t i o n , e t c . ƒ R a t i o o f i n c o m e s f r o m s t a t e a s s e t s t o c o s t s o f m a n a g e m e n t o f t h e s e a s s e t s ( i n c l u d i n g m a i n t e n a n c e ) ƒ M i n F i n d a t a T a s k 4 . 1 0 . C r e a t e a s y s t e m o f i n t e r n a l f i n a n c i a l c o n t r o l a t t h e S B P l e v e l ƒ S h a r e o f S B P s w i t h i n t e r n a l f i n a n c i a l c o n t r o l s y s t e m s m e e t i n g t h e a p p r o v e d f o r m a l i z e d r e q u i r e m e n t s t o c o n t r o l o v e r o b s e r v a n c e o f r u l e s a n d p r o c e d u r e s , i d e n t i f i c a t i o n o f i n e f f i c i e n t b u s i n e s s p r o c e s s e s , e t c . ƒ M i n F i n d a t a T a s k 4 . 1 1 . I m p r o v e b u d g e t c l a s s i f i c a t i o n o f t h e R u s s i a n F e d e r a t i o n a n d b u d g e t a c c o u n t i n g ƒ I n t r o d u c t i o n o f a c c r u a l - b a s e d b u d g e t a c c o u n t i n g ; ƒ A c c o u n t i n g a l l o w s t o g r o u p e x p e n d i t u r e s b y f u n c t i o n s a n d p r o g r a m s ƒ L a w o n a c c o u n t i n g f o r b u d g e t o r g a n i z a t i o n s ƒ M i n F i n d a t a O b j e c t i v e 5 . S t r e n g t h e n t r a n s p a r e n c y a n d e x t e r n a l a c c o u n t a b i l i t y o f p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ƒ R e d u c t i o n i n c o r r u p t i o n p e r c e p t i o n i n d i c e s – b a s e d o n b u s i n e s s ( B E E P S ) a n d p o p u l a t i o n s u r v e y s ( T I ) ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s p e r c e p t i o n o f c o r r u p t i o n l e v e l s ƒ S h a r e o f i n f o r m a t i o n r e q u e s t s s e n t t o f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h h a v e b e e n a n s w e r e d i n t i m e / w i t h d e l a y / r e f u s e d ƒ N G O s u r v e y s ( T I ) , b u s i n e s s s u r v e y s ( B E E P S ) ƒ P u b l i c o f f i c i a l s s u r v e y s ƒ N G O m o n i t o r i n g Page 18 P e r f o r m a n c e I n d i c a t o r s f o r P u b l i c A d m i n i s t r a t i o n R e f o r m s i n R u s s i a : P o s s i b l e A p p r o a c h e s Y e l e n a D o b r o l y u b o v a P a g e 1 8 N o v e m b e r 4 , 2 0 0 4 Civil Service/ Administrative Reforms T a s k 5 . 1 . I m p r o v e t r a n s p a r e n c y a n d o p e n n e s s o f p u b l i c a u t h o r i t i e s ƒ S h a r e o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s m e e t i n g t h e r e q u i r e m e n t s o f G o v e r n m e n t R e s o l u t i o n N o . 9 8 ƒ S h a r e o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h h a v e e s t a b l i s h e d c o n s u l t a t i v e s t r u c t u r e s ( w i t h s t a k e h o l d e r p a r t i c i p a t i o n ) w h i c h t a k e p a r t i n d e s i g n i n g d e v e l o p m e n t s t r a t e g i e s ƒ N u m b e r ( s h a r e ) o f c o m p l a i n t s o n n o n - p r o v i s i o n o f i n f o r m a t i o n w h i c h h a v e b e e n r e s o l v e d t o t h e b e n e f i t o f p e r s o n s r e q u e s t i n g t h e i n f o r m a t i o n ƒ N u m b e r o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w h i c h h a v e e s t a b l i s h e d a n t i - c o r r u p t i o n h o t l i n e s ( a n d d y n a m i c s o f r e p o r t s t h r o u g h t h e s e h o t l i n e s ) ƒ M o n i t o r i n g o f f e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s w e b - s i t e s ƒ N G O d a t a T a s k 5 . 2 . S t r e n g t h e n e x t e r n a l a c c o u n t a b i l i t y s y s t e m ƒ M o n i t o r i n g o f i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f r e c o m m e n d a t i o n m a d e b y e x t e r n a l a u d i t i n g b o d i e s ƒ F e d e r a l e x e c u t i v e b o d i e s d a t a ƒ A c c o u n t i n g C h a m b e r d a t a Page 19 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 19 November 4, 2004 3. Implementation of Public Administration Monitoring System in Russia: Issues and Approaches to Possible Solutions The system of objectives and performance indicators for public administration reforms presented in the previous section is neither exhaustive nor perfect. However, the formulations of objectives and indicators proposed allow to draw a number of conclusions related to implementation of the public administration reforms monitoring system in Russia. Section 2 demonstrates that one of the key methodological challenges related to evaluating the impact of governance reforms as a whole is the difficulty in identifying a strong correlation between the improvements in the public administration and the strategic objective of the reforms – supporting the achievement of socio-economic developmental objectives. Though there is some empirical evidence of correlation between the quality of governance and economic growth, defining the contribution of public management development into overall economic development may be a subject of a separate study. Complexity in identifying objective quantitative indicators is one of specific features of the public management reforms. Therefore, quite a number of the proposed outcome performance indicators (as well as some output indicators) are based on the survey results (including surveys of population, public officials, businesses). Though such data may be quite useful (since this data evaluates the changes more objectively), such indicators should be analyzed together with statistical data as well as the data obtained from ministries and agencies so as to obtain the most adequate picture of the reform progress. The following key peculiarities associated with the use of survey data should be highlighted: ƒ Public opinion (as well as that of businesses) on the quality of services provided largely depends on expectations. There have been cases in the international experience when consumer expectations significantly exceeded the service providers’ capacity. As a result even a significant progress in public service delivery was seen as marginal over time; ƒ Conducting regular surveys implies additional budget expenditures for this purpose. Another specificity of governance reforms monitoring is a need for timely collection and processing of a large amount of data usually not collected by a national statistical office. To resolve this issue, it is necessary to create a data collection system (especially as far as the federal executive bodies’ data is concerned, though when the monitoring system is adjusted to the regional level, there would be a need to collect information submitted by the regional administrations as well). Experience of other countries, especially that of Finland and the UK, also suggests a need to establish a system to manage the implementation of public sector reforms. Such system should be in charge of monitoring and assessment of public management reforms programs and prepare regular internal and external reporting on the progress achieved. Dobrolyubova L:\Economic Unit\Parison\DFID_Grant\Reform Progress Reports\Performance Indicators and Statistics\CSR_Monitoring_YD_Draft2_Nov4_eng_track_changes.doc Page 20 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 20 November 4, 2004 November 4, 2004 9:16 PM Page 21 Performance Indicators for Public Administration Reforms in Russia: Possible Approaches Yelena Dobrolyubova Page 21 November 4, 2004