Management control on ministries Laxity is over!
Approved in a Government Council meeting last February, the new mechanism establishing a management control system within the ministries is now operational. The decree was published in the latest edition of the Official Gazette. Its execution is assigned to the Minister in charge of the Budget and to the Minister for Administrative Reform.
This decree aims to establish a new culture of public management, centered on efficiency, evaluation, accountability, and transparency. Concretely, the new system provides a unified framework for the rollout of the management control system at the level of ministerial departments. In detail, each ministry is required to set up a management control system to ensure the consistency of sector plans with budget programming. This will make it possible to improve “ the performance of public management, by promoting a better use of resources ”. By virtue of article 2 of this decree, the management control system includes a series of tools making it possible to check continuously the achievement of goals according to the resources mobilized. The idea is also to allow the evaluation of the results in comparison with the forecasts. The management control system will also provide visibility on all the elements to measure the social and economic impact, as well as the quality of the services offered to users. Under the new decree, each department will have a central administrative entity, in charge of deploying this control system. The goal of this administrative structure will be, in particular, to participate in the development of the strategy of the department concerned and its harmonization with the performance goals. Ditto for the definition of the mechanisms for evaluating efficiency, in addition to the participation in the supply of the information system with data … These entities will also be in charge of grouping together the financial statements and the efficiency report of the department concerned.
These entities are backed by reference persons in the field of control management, who have expertise in this field. They will be appointed by the program managers who will be involved in developing the effectiveness and efficiency framework for the programs launched, supporting project managers in defining the efficiency goals to be achieved, setting up evaluation mechanisms, and other activities.
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