BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

04/03/2007

UNDP to implement project to improve admin procedures pn Belarus

Minsk, March 2 (NNN-BELTA) A new project started by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Belarus aims to secure the constitutional rights of the Belarusian citizens, to promote principles of responsibility and openness in the work of the state bodies of authority.

The project, "Contributing to improvement of the administrative procedures in the Republic of Belarus", has been designed for a two-year period and will be implemented by the National Centre of Law Making Activities under the president of Belarus, BelTA was told by project manager Dmitriy Frischin.

The new UNDP project provides for a multilateral approach to the administrative procedures based on enhancing the potential of the state bodies of authorities and fostering awareness of citizens about their rights. The international experience in this field will be widely used.

According to Frischin, the project also provides for rendering assistance to draw up a legal enactment on administrative procedures, for carrying out a poll and integrating proposals of citizens into the text of the document.

Information inter-active training is planned to be provided for various groups of the population in the regions.

According to UNDP Programme Officer in Belarus Alina Ostling, "the establishing of efficient co-operation between citizens and state bodies is one of the main objectives and one of the most urgent problems all governments face in the whole world".

"The project is rather well-timed," said Liudmila Panferova, deputy director of the National Centre of Law Making Activities. "It has been designed to render the government assistance in drawing up the law on administrative procedures and will help train representatives of the state bodies to apply modern administrative procedures in everyday life."

Representatives of the key ministries and departments involved in the work with citizens and individual entrepreneurs as well as organizations introducing the administrative reform -- the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the justice and economy ministries, the state property committee and the Minsk City Council -- are members of the co-ordination council. --NNN-BELTA

Source:

http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/march/04/international/undp_to_implement_project_to_improve_admin_procedures_pn_belarus.html

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