The Ministry of Economic Development prepared a report on the effectiveness of the implementation of state programs in the first six months of the current year, from which it follows that low efficiency (less than 61 percent) showed almost every seventh state program (six of 45), and in four analysis it was not possible to hold. This is referring to a copy of the document “Vedomosti”.
High efficiency, with an indicator above 92 percent, showed 13 programs, above the average (from 82 to 92 percent) – also 13. Nine efficiency is at a level from 61 to 82 percent, it is lower than the average. On average, the efficiency was 80.3 percent, which is 1.8 percentage points higher than in the same period of 2020.
The worst among the state programs was the “Development of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry” (37.9 percent). Following “Ensuring Chemical and Biological Safety” (40 percent), “Development of the Transport System” (42.3 percent), “Energy Development” (44.3 percent) and “Defense and Industrial Complex” (48.7 percent) .
The most effective programs for the development of shipbuilding and technology for the development of shelf deposits, on the management of state and material reserve, on social support for citizens, to ensure public security, to ensure public order and the fight against crime and for the development of the atomic complex.
Evaluation is carried out based on the execution of control events, from which 80 percent of the indicator depends, and execute the requirements for administering the program.
In the programs, assessing which failed, plans for monitoring were not approved and the deadlines for reporting were not approved. Among them are “Health Development”, “Providing accessible and comfortable housing and utilities”, “industry development and an increase in its competitiveness” and “Environmental Protection”.
In November last year, the Accounts Chamber published a report from which it followed that the growth of state programs often deprived of meaning, as money is allocated without revising the indicators. As a result, it is impossible to evaluate the effectiveness of spending.
Before that, the head of the State Duma Budget Committee and Taxes, Andrei Makarov, proposed to abandon the state programs as a tool, which for ten years of existence proved its inefficiency and exists only to increase the employment of officials.
Against this background in May, the government announced the transition to a new state management system, but it will act only since 2022.