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Comprehensive Outcome-Oriented Impact Assessment: Enhancing Administrative Efficiency in Austria

This paper examines the current status of outcome-oriented impact assessments in Austria, highlighting the fragmented implementation and lack of support instruments. It discusses the challenges associated with the Standard Cost Model (SCM) and the legal framework established under the Federal Budget Law 2013, which aims to foster transparency and efficiency in budget management. By introducing a burden calculator and IT-supported consultations, the initiative seeks to improve the quality of ex-ante assessments, ensuring that policy formulation and budget execution are closely aligned with defined objectives and their expected impacts on economic, environmental, and social factors.

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Comprehensive Outcome-Oriented Impact Assessment: Enhancing Administrative Efficiency in Austria

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  1. Gerald Reindl SCM: Test Case for Outcome-Oriented Impact Assessment 23.09.2011/SCM-Network, Ljubljana

  2. IA: Status quo in Austria Financial • Comprehensive obligation - fragmented implementation • Lack of support & instruments • Exceptions • Administrative culture Economic Environmental Social / consuments impacts

  3. ExperienceswithSCM Aim: „get ex-ante assessments done in quality“ • Law • Ordinance (Standardkostenmodell-Richtlinien) • Guidelines • Monitoring: MoF-statement on compliance Challenge: Quality

  4. Experiences with SCM Introduction of admin burden calculator -> Mandatory fields -> IT supported output for consultation

  5. Introduction - Considerations

  6. Federal Budget Reform 2013 (2nd stage) Outcome-oriented impact assessment Result-oriented management of administrative units Performance Budgeting Accrual budgeting and accounting New budget structure: „lump-sum budgets“ New budget principles: outcome-orientation; efficiency; transparency; true and fair view

  7. Horizontal Outcome-Orientation • Outcome Information in budget • Policy formulation: laws/ordinances • Budget execution: projects/programmes • Juxtaposition of financial inputs and impacts

  8. Coherent Budget/Impact assessment • Use synergies: Same approaches towards defining objectives, measures… • Intertwined: Does the objective of the law contribute to measures/objectives formulated in budget? • Ex-ante/ex-post:internal evaluation after max. 5 years

  9. Coherent Legal Framework – Federal Budget Law 2013 (BHG 2013) Provisions – Law „Framework“ ordinance on principles of outcome oriented IA Ordinance on financial impacts Ord.Gender etc. Ord. Environ-ment Ord. Admin burden

  10. Pragmatic • Done within administration • Only significant impacts are assessed in detail; 2-step approach • Limited number of impact dimensions • Lean process

  11. Feasible • Methodological support • Guidelines • IT Tool -> Guidelines

  12. Support by IT • Relief of users • Background information provided by tool • Calculations • Guided process • Guided analysis -> writing in tool • „Push the button“- IA-document • Experts can work in parallel

  13. Support by IT • One-stop-solution • Selection • Usability

  14. Quality Checks & Feedback Mechanisms • Obligation to conduct impact assessment – at the same time enablement • Standardization of results – quality checks possible • Ensuring of common minimum quality

  15. Standard Cost Model Admin burden calculation: consideration of further aspects • Small and medium sized enterprises • Aspects of “SME-Test” integrated in SCM • eGovernment-proofing • Assessment of expected benefit for • Enterprises • Administration

  16. Key aspects of implementation • Taking into account national circumstances • Involving ministries • Apply principles of SCM-experience • Administrative reform approach: initiate change in culture • Short and medium term process • Outcome orientation • Budget management • Policy/tics • Administration

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