Expert-Grup

Lack of qualified staff – one of the major causes of poor management of public money

Monday, 12 October 20154981 views
Lack of qualified staff – one of the major causes of poor management of public money

Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.

A study by Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”, authored by Tatiana Savva and funded by the Soros-Moldova Foundation, was presented at a public event on 12 October in Chișinău. It found that irregularities estimated by the Court of Accounts exceeded MDL 7 billion in 2014, and that most of its recommendations go unimplemented.

Almost 65% of the Court of Accounts' recommendations are not implemented. The implementation rate fell by 3.5% compared with 2013, mainly because of local public authorities. The main obstacle is the lack of qualified staff and the low capacity of administrations to find solutions. The Court itself suffers from high staff turnover, said member Angela Pascaru.

There was some progress: operational recommendations were implemented 20% more than the year before, over half of the responses met the deadlines, and fewer than 15% were irrelevant. Yet fewer than 30% of the actions taken solve the underlying problems. The study calls for stronger parliamentary oversight, closer cooperation with the Government and law enforcement, more sanctioning powers for the Court, and a Government report to Parliament on recovering damages of about MDL 7 billion.

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