Working group meets on decentralization policy

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Cabinet Secretariat for Government has launched a project on realization of a decentralization policy in frames of the programme on supporting governance and decentralization, being co-implemented under a Mongolia-Switzerland intergovernmental contract. Within the project, a working group has been set up by order of S.Bayartsogt, a head of the Cabinet Secretariat, with duties of re-planning functions of the government and self-governance bodies of localities, calculating financial expenses caused by the re-planning, and refining a present system of budget balancing. In order to ensure multi-party role, the group has included representatives of the Cabinet Secretariat, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment, Green Development and Tourism, the administrations of the capital city and provinces. On Monday, the group held its first meeting at the State House to discuss a plan of actions and to determine roles and responsibilities of the group’s members. In addition, foreign consultants on budget balancing delivered reports.