Prioritisation of PAR in key horizontal planning documents

The government programme identifies PAR as a priority

Review of the government programme to verify PAR is identified as a priority. The analysis identifies whether the government programme includes at least one major PAR-related reform among the issues addressed at the level of policy objectives, measures and/or activities. It is not sufficient to highlight PAR as a priority in the introduction or other overview chapters. To be considered “covered”, the document must include substantive section(s) or area(s) dealing with PAR-related reforms and covering at least one PAR area as covered by the Principles of Public Administration.

The key horizontal planning documents identify PAR as a priority

Review of key medium-to-long-term horizontal planning document(s) of the country, identified as such either at legislative level (e.g., law or regulation setting out hierarchy of planning documents) or acknowledged as such by the institution responsible for the country’s strategic planning system. The review needs to verify PAR is identified as a priority. The analysis identifies whether the key medium-to-long-term planning document(s) include PAR substantive areas among the issues addressed (policy objectives, measures or activities). It is not sufficient to highlight PAR as a priority in the introduction or other overview chapters. To be considered “covered”, the document must include substantive section(s) or area(s) dealing with at least one major issue related to PAR addressed.

PAR planning document(s) are coherent with legislative (or work) plans of the government

Review of PAR planning documents and government’s legislative (or work) plans (government work plan and/or legislative plan) to assess coherence between them in terms of planned laws (both amendments and new laws). Only planning documents with overlapping periods of implementation will be compared. PAR planning documents are considered not to be coherent with the government legislative (or work) plan if one law specified in the PAR planning documents is not included in the government’s legislative (or work) plan. Plans for the current calendar year are compared. In cases when there are no legislative commitments planned for the current calendar year, the most recent year that has legislative commitments planned within PAR planning documents and has a government legislative (or work) plan adopted for the same year will be assessed. Points are allocated if there is no inconsistency identified between the laws planned for adoption in the PAR planning documents and the government legislative (or work) plan for the current assessment year. Even one inconsistency is sufficient for the criterion to be considered not fulfilled.

Funding of PAR agenda planned from domestic sources

Review of PAR planning documents to assess the percentage of planned domestic financing of PAR agenda. The percentage is established by counting all identified financial needs for implementation of PAR agenda and calculating the share of domestic resources from the overall financial needs. Points are allocated based on the percentage of domestic funding (x): • x < 50% = 0 points. • 50% ≤ x < 90% = linear function. • x ≥ 90% = 2 points.