On the morning of March 5, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung chaired a meeting with relevant ministries on building the KPI indicator for evaluating and scoring on the promulgation of documents detailing laws, ordinances, and resolutions.
Reporting at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tu (leader of the agency in charge of drafting) said that the project to promulgate the KPI index for evaluating and scoring law-making work is built to establish a unified, objective and quantitative management tool to comprehensively monitor and evaluate the results of law-making tasks of ministries and ministerial-level agencies.
The scope is focused on documents issued by the Government, the Prime Minister and ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies.
The KPI index on law-making work is structured into 3 groups of documents to be evaluated, and 4 groups of agencies to be scored according to the process of issuing legal normative documents (VBQPPL).
Agencies that are scored are: The drafting agency; the appraisal agency (Ministry of Justice); the agency responding to members of the Government's opinions; the agency assigned to handle, seek opinions from members of the Government, and report to Government leaders (Government Office).
The KPI index focuses on assessing key contents, including: Progress, quality of drafting and submitting for promulgation of documents; level of completeness and timeliness of detailed regulations; effectiveness of coordination between agencies in the process of law-making.
Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung requested to clarify the relationship between the KPI Index on law-making and the Public Administration Reform Index (PAR Index).
The evaluation must ensure consistency, avoid contradictions between indicator systems; and at the same time limit duplication of criteria, not allowing additional procedures to arise, ensuring resource savings in the implementation process.
Review and improve the system of criteria and evaluation indicators to ensure practicality. Ministries and sectors have different volumes of law-making, so it is necessary to design appropriate criteria to accurately reflect the level of contribution and workload of each agency.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, building the KPI index in law-making is necessary, this index will create motivation for ministries and sectors to improve their responsibility, promote the progress of law-making, and at the same time create a specific tool for measuring and evaluating in the implementation process.
Regarding the proposal to supplement quality assessment criteria, the Deputy Prime Minister said that this is a necessary content. However, in the immediate future, it should be limited to a measurable scope, such as the quality of submitted dossiers, the situation of dossiers being returned during the appraisal process or submitted to the Government.
Regarding the scope of evaluation subjects, the Deputy Prime Minister agreed to expand the evaluation for three groups of documents as proposed in the draft project, instead of only focusing on detailed regulations.
Regarding expanding the scope of application to localities, government leaders believe that in the immediate future, a pilot program should be implemented for ministries and ministerial-level agencies. The expansion to localities needs to be carefully studied, evaluated and implemented at an appropriate time.
