Any party making a decision on a public policy must execute that policy, although there should also be a follow-up, supervision during execution and objective monitoring of outcomes using quantitative and qualitative indicators. This monitoring of outcomes cannot be carried out by the party that made the decision on which policy to implement or on how to execute it. For this technical monitoring to be conducted by the public administration itself would entail a qualitative leap that would bring us closer to the monitoring exerted in the most advanced European countries. In the same way that all ministries have staff in order to process all budgetary management linked to a policy with accounting reliability and legal assurances despite the fact that the Court of Accounts also reviews the financial statements independently, what is being proposed here is to establish a culture of policy monitoring, self-assessment of outcomes and accountability to society. As a result, the proposal is to set up an office within each ministry of the Government of Catalonia with highly qualified staff to carry out monitoring and assessment of outcomes, guaranteeing that a follow-up report will be issued each year on the various policies implemented. To ensure the independence of the reports and the necessary counselling that offices will require, an inter-ministerial body is advised to be set up to carry out external monitoring on the various offices. In conjunction with the ministerial offices, this inter-ministerial body shall draw up an annual public report which will be handed over to the Parliament. Once this procedure has been implemented within all ministries of the Government of Catalonia, formulas will need to be found in order to extend this methodology to the remaining areas of the Catalan public administration.
Catalunya 2022
RESET: Call to reactivate Catalonia
ACTION 10.2