Bulgarian institutions are in a stalemate at the most inopportune moment. After the deeds of the former ruling party, heavy responsibilities lay down on the shoulders of deputy ministers and secretaries of the departments, they will be hard to handle. The country should meet its commitments under the operational programmes by the end of 2013, as well as prepare adequate and workable strategies for development for the programming period 2014 to 2020.
Operational concepts for new programs that will apply for funding from the European Union are ready and waiting final version. Social Ministry has even announced a public tender for an external estimate of the Human Resources Development by 2020. Candidates will compete to make the most appropriate analysis of internal and external consistency of the indicator system and its management, monitoring and administrative capacity. In other words, to obtain the 200,000 levs commission fee from the state. It is in these areas, the government of Boyko Borissov suffered a total collapse and the results can now be seen on the streets where people are protesting.
Assessment of the current programme was made in 2006 by foreign experts who propposed that the country should bind together its economy, employment policy in one in order to become competitive in Europe. The problem is that the last two governments did not heed this advice. If we manage to move in the right direction can be seen from the huge imbalance between the contracted and really performed work under the Human Resources Development programme ten months before closing it. From an overall budget of 2,374 billion lev country has managed to secure 1.76 billion lev. And if 74% utilization is still not very bad, the fact that by mid-February 2013 on the 8 priority axes what was actually disbursed was only 690 million levs and this show that institutions in Bulgaria are working inefficiently and very slowly.
From the available 494 million levs to promote economic activity and development of labour market participants in various schemes have received only 213 million levs. The state has 325 million levs in order to increase productivity and adaptability of employees, out of which 120 million levs have been paid. To improve the quality of education and training in line with labour market cashed got projects for 95.52 million levs out of 450 million provided. From 364 million to improve access to education and training the sum so far spent is 148.74 million levs.
The BANKER
