EXECUTIVE BODIES
Ukraine is characterized by a ramified system of executive power bodies, which is remarkable by a somewhat unclear distribution of powers and responsibilities and the lack of balance. This results in the less efficient functioning and excessive structures leading to the worsened capacity of the Government on public policy making and implementation of government programs.
Based upon the sustainable practice of the developed countries and Ukrainian experience, functional review as an important instrument of administrative reform became a basis for monitoring the structure of executive power bodies in Ukraine and its compliance with powers assgined to them according to legislation as well as with governmental priorities.
In 2005-2007, a range of pilot projects were carried out. Diverse approaches to the functional review of executive power bodies were tested, whereby selection of the type and methods of review depended on aims, capacity, resource proposals and political will of the Government:
July, 2005 – Procedure of conducting the functional review of executive power bodies was developed and ratified with the order of the Main Department of the Civil Service of Ukraine from 29.07.2005 # 189 and registered in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine ob 17.08.2005;
March- August, 2006 – a pilot functional review of the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Transport and Communications was carried out;
July - August, 2006 – a functional review of the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Industrial Policy and Public Investments, in the spheres of scientific, scientific and technical, innovative activity, transfer of technologies and protection of intellectual property was conducted;
August - October, 2006 – collection of primary documents necessary for providing a review of ministries of Ukraine;
October – December, 2006 - a first stage of functional review (normative analysis) of 62 public and republican authorities of the Autonomous Republic Crimea;
January- March, 2007 – functional review of 16 ministries of Ukraine;
March - July, 2007 – functional review of 29 central bodies of executive power of Ukraine;
July – August, 2007 - a pilot reviews of 78 local bodies of executive power in Dnipropetrovs’k oblast; a functional review of 30 republican bodies of executive power in ARE Crimea; functional review of Kiev city and district in Kyiv state administrations; a functional review of local bodies of executive power is in Kiev oblast;
August, 2008 – a horizontal functional review of 63 central bodies of executive power of Ukraine completed.
Results of year 2009 :
- functional review of 25 central executive bodies, 7 regional executive bodies and 6 local governments in the framework to preparations to the final part of EURO 2012;
- functional review of Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of Ukraine and 27 Regional State Administrations that belong to the sphere of social services providing;
- functional review of Ministry of Regional Development and Constructions of Ukraine;
- functional review of Ministry of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine;
- functional review of Ministry of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine;
- functional review of 64 central executive bodies in the sphere of providing public paid services.
