The recipe for restructuring the country: minimizing corruption, resetting the government with new, completely different teams, and maximizing the involvement of big neoligarchic business.
Along with the war in Ukraine, the issue of unprofessionalism of the civil service and public administration has escalated, but at the same time, there is a unique chance to restart it on new rails. This was written by the former head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, economist and diplomat Mykhailo Bno-Ayrian in his article on ZN.UA – “The dilemma of choice: continue to take or restart” .
In the process of communicating with Ukrainian business, which is experiencing unprecedented turbulence, several times more serious than during the covid epidemic, you can often hear the question: “And where, in fact, the government?”. the prime minister, who is just actively speaking in public, and more in the professionalism of his subordinates – the heads of central executive bodies, which clearly receded into the background, institutionally zeroed, “- said the expert.
According to Bno-Ayrian, with the beginning of the war we have witnessed what experts have been talking about for years: the consequences of unprofessionalism of the civil service and public administration.
“This is probably one of the main challenges facing the country – who and how, in fact, will raise Ukraine, as well as solve other extremely important issues: housing hundreds of thousands of refugees, starting the economy, restarting the defense industry, creating hundreds of thousands of workers places and the return of millions of refugees to Ukraine, “he said.
Bno-Ayrian stressed that our army needs a strong economy and a strong rear.
< "War, apart from theaters of war, will now take place primarily on the economic and humanitarian fronts. We really need hundreds of professional decisions a day. And a clear vision of where we are heading," he said. .
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Therefore, the state must now honestly ask itself three questions:
- First, is the state in its current form capable of solving the challenges facing the country? If not, can it be institutionally rebuilt in the near future? If not, can the country's challenges be minimized without involving thousands of ineffective officials at various levels?
- The second question concerns the professional civil service. If we want to have a successful country, we need a completely different level of government.
- And most importantly, corruption, which has always blocked normal changes in ministries and departments. If the setbacks and decisions made before the war are preserved, we will not have any strong, capable and effective central government in principle.
According to Bno-Ayrian, today there can be two concepts of solving the challenges facing the country:
- < li> The first, traditional, is when the government strengthens the central level of government and tries to manage the processes itself: plans, sets tasks, implements.
- The second is when the government honestly acknowledges that in the current realities it is institutionally incapable of managing such complex processes. So, we just need to “let go” of management issues and involve big Ukrainian business (not to be confused with oligarchic), which is institutionally much stronger than ministries and departments. That is, not to centralize, distribute and control, but to create conditions, to delegate and help.
“ We have thousands of big entrepreneurs who can be very scale quickly, creating tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs in parallel . And this entrepreneurial spirit must be preserved and directed to the creation of a new country, “said the expert.” Today is a unique chance to throw away everything old and try to restart on new tracks. Therefore, the recipe for restructuring the country is to minimize corruption, reset the government with new, completely different teams and, of course, maximize the involvement of large neo-oligarchic business in solving strategic tasks . Otherwise, this plane called “Ukraine” will not take off, “he added.
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