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Mon, 09/28/2009 - 08:18
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Cabinet plans to set project evaluation system to cut wasteful spending+
TOKYO, Sept. 27 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's Cabinet is considering introducing an accomplishment evaluation system for government projects to ensure strict budgetary requests and eliminate wasteful spending, government officials said Sunday.
Projects will go under evaluation after several years of launch on how far
project purposes are accomplished. The National Strategy Office led by Deputy
Prime Minister and strategy minister Naoto Kan, will set up a committee to map
out details of the system, they said.
The system would become applicable to projects that are covered by the fiscal
2010 budget, they added.
According to a blueprint by Kan and advocates of such a system, government
bureaucrats are required to set goals on what a project will accomplish and how
it will do so in a certain period when they request a budgetary allocation. At
the end of the period the project will be examined in accordance with the
goals.
Planners of projects with poor evaluation would be held responsible for the
failure, so evaluation results would directly affect his or her personnel
ratings, the officials quoted Kan as saying recently, suggesting that creating
such a system would help forestall lax project planning.
Politicians who grant approval for projects crafted by bureaucrats would also
be held responsible for the results of project evaluation.
Critics of such a system fear it could create negative trends such as making
bureaucrats vigorless in project planning.
At present, government projects are evaluated by the ministry and agency basis.
But the Democratic Party of Japan stated in its campaign manifesto for the
late-August general election that it wants to make the process of evaluation
and information disclosure more transparent to eliminate wasteful spending.
The government already has a mechanism of checking appropriateness of budget
implementation involving the Board of Audit.
But a senior government official said the envisaged process is to evaluate the
meaning of projects rather than the appropriateness of budget implementation.
==Kyodo
Projects will go under evaluation after several years of launch on how far
project purposes are accomplished. The National Strategy Office led by Deputy
Prime Minister and strategy minister Naoto Kan, will set up a committee to map
out details of the system, they said.
The system would become applicable to projects that are covered by the fiscal
2010 budget, they added.
According to a blueprint by Kan and advocates of such a system, government
bureaucrats are required to set goals on what a project will accomplish and how
it will do so in a certain period when they request a budgetary allocation. At
the end of the period the project will be examined in accordance with the
goals.
Planners of projects with poor evaluation would be held responsible for the
failure, so evaluation results would directly affect his or her personnel
ratings, the officials quoted Kan as saying recently, suggesting that creating
such a system would help forestall lax project planning.
Politicians who grant approval for projects crafted by bureaucrats would also
be held responsible for the results of project evaluation.
Critics of such a system fear it could create negative trends such as making
bureaucrats vigorless in project planning.
At present, government projects are evaluated by the ministry and agency basis.
But the Democratic Party of Japan stated in its campaign manifesto for the
late-August general election that it wants to make the process of evaluation
and information disclosure more transparent to eliminate wasteful spending.
The government already has a mechanism of checking appropriateness of budget
implementation involving the Board of Audit.
But a senior government official said the envisaged process is to evaluate the
meaning of projects rather than the appropriateness of budget implementation.
==Kyodo
