Prime Minister Pavel Filip today informed about the results of an institutional and functional analysis of the State Chancellery, carried out by experts of the Ernst&Young” Baltics Company, with financial support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Moldova, in order to enforce the reform of the State Chancellery.      

According to the survey, the new structure of the State Chancellery should ensure seven basic duties and one secondary, as “Centre of Government.” At the same time, analytical capacities are to be essentially enhanced, the work of coordinating policies is to be optimized, the processes of developing and promoting legislative and normative acts, as well as of documents’ circulation are to be modernized by applying new technologies. Also, it is necessary to revise the related working processes. Among experts’ recommendations, there are also transfer of inadequate duties, which have no connection with the State Chancellery’s powers, to public institutions in charge. Estimations by the experts’ team shows that the reform of the State Chancellery might be carried out in a three-month period.   

The Prime Minister thanked the partners for the assistance provided and expressed full determination for carrying out this comprehensive reform. “It is logical and natural for us to begin with the State Chancellery, just in the heart of the government,” the prime minister said.    

In this context, an expert of Ernst&Young, Andris Laucins, highly appreciated the government’s approach and the fact that the prime minister took responsibility to personally lead this process. 

For her part, UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative in Moldova Dafina Gercheva expressed willingness of the institutions she represents to continue cooperating with the government to carry out the reform underway.