“A portal launched on March 1 to get public opinion on the most important governmental draft laws. Citizens have the option to make their points and submit proposals. Essentially, that is the feedback mechanism that I mentioned: a project is evaluated not only by departments and not only by the people who had developed the draft law or by-law, but by the people who will live and work under these laws.”
“We need a modern model of governance based on state-of-the-art information technologies including crowdsourcing – a preliminary poll with a consecutive reaction to the results of the decisions that are being introduced.”
“I want to stress that we need to work out a comprehensive strategy for implementing the federal targeted programmes. We should increase the accountability of the individuals and agencies involved in implementing the projects. We also need to review the selection criteria and the system of objectives and indicators for the federal targeted programmes.”
“A great deal will depend on how our agencies, their chief executives and other top and middle-level managers carry out our instructions.<…> In this regard I would like to say that we also intend to introduce special mechanisms for evaluating the work of government institutions.”
“The assessment of our people is precisely the fundamental criterion of the results of the work both of the government and of the regional administration teams on all territories of the Russian Federation.”
“The new assessment mechanism for regional executive bodies should be developed in close cooperation with the public opinion, the business community and trade unions. I would like to emphasise once again that this country’s development and improvements in the quality of life depend on the coordinated efforts of all levels of government, and in large part on the work of regional administrative teams and heads of constituent entities that are personally responsible for the situations in their respective regions.”
“We have already taken a number of steps to change the system for evaluating the performance of regional authorities. We have introduced new assessment criteria such as attraction of investments, consolidation of the regional tax base and provided additional financial support for regions carrying out development projects. We have several strong regions.”
“It is necessary to design a comprehensive appraisal system that will encourage the regions to work for balanced development. <…>The development of the regional economic potential should take into account people’s needs above all else. Certainly, clearer and better criteria should allow us to objectively assess the work performed by the Russian regions, and to support the leaders and those seeking to be among the best regions.”
“The situation in a particular region is not determined solely by the availability of mineral resources or support from the federal centre; however, it is to a large extent determined by the enthusiasm and performance efficiency of regional officials. As you know, we have worked out a system of criteria to assess the work of regional authorities, and this system is currently in place. But a comparison of paper reports to actual results proves that the system is not very effective.”
“Improving the performance of the government machine is our strategic goal. One way to achieve this is to carry out the electronic government project, which we are currently doing. Once implemented, it will greatly reduce the need for people to go from office to office to deal with numerous bureaucrats; instead, they will go to a «one-stop shop» and receive all the information or documents that they need there.”