Report on the Monitoring of Local Administration – The Municipality of Despotovac
Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): English
Keywords: Serbia; governance; local administration; monitoring; report; Despotovac;
The subject of this research was a large number of areas. Out of all the areas, the situation in the area of the Public services and human resourse management was the best rated. It was established that an appropriate institutional framework for performing tasks related to Human resource management in local administration was established, that the Code of Conduct for officers and officials was adopted, and that the Complaints Commission was formed. Also, the Municipality of Despotovac maintains personnel records of employees. In addition, it was established that public competitions for filling executive positions in the municipality administration were available to the public, that they were written in simple, clear and understandable language and that they did not represent an administrative burden for potential candidates. Also, in the area of Public financial management, especially in the part related to public procurement, as well as the degree of compliance with the budget calendar and the success of income and expenses planning, the Municipality of Despotovac showed solid results. Namely, the budget calendar is respected to great extent, the budget contains several gender-responsive goals, and expenditures are shown according to program classification, i.e. the budget is programmatic in nature, and the deviation between initially planned and realized budget revenues and expenses is acceptable. It is also positive that the Municipality of Despotovac uses the Public procurement portal, that public procurement procedures are carried out by a competent committee. Unfortunately, there are also areas that are rated very poorly, so that they cannot even get a passing grade. This refers, above all, to the area of the Strategic framework for public administration reform, which is characterized by the complete absence of planning documents for improving the work of local self-government. The next area – Policy development and coordination is rated slightly better, especially considering that the work of the Municipal Council is non-transparent, that information on Council sessions is not given, the agenda, minutes of work, drafts and proposals of decisions are not published, and the Municipality of Despotovac does not show sufficient inclusivity and openness in the creation of public policy documents and regulations. In other areas, the situation could be improved if the Municipality of Despotovac, for example, made services more accessible on the eUprava portal and established a Single administrative point. The fact that the Municipality of Despotovac still has not adopted a Local Anti-corruption Plan, the implementation of which would increase resistance to corruption, ensure transparent work of local self-government bodies and reduce the possibility of misuse of public resources, is also incomprehensible.
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