On August 6, 2014, Promo-LEX and the Association for Efficient and Responsible Governance (AGER) launched in a news conference Quarterly Monitoring Report no. 6 on the Implementation of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy (monitoring period: 1 April to 30 June 2014).
Experts found that progress in implementing the JSRS Action Plan remains slow. Thus, of 288 of shares planned for completion by June 30, 2014, 173 have been completed and 115 are still uncompleted, which represents a percentage ratio of 60% to 40%, respectively. Although this rate shows a positive trend compared with the previous report, the dynamics of implementation of current actions and completing overdue actions remains unsettling. Thus, of the 23 actions that were to be completed during the reporting period, only 7 were finalized, and other 16 remained unrealized. Thus only 31% of due actions were implemented, and 69% remained overdue.
In terms of institutional capacity, with few exceptions, the work of the secretariat of the working group was assessed as good, as it ensures a smooth conduct of meetings, and the availability of their documents and materials on the webpage dedicated to reform. However, the bad practice of ”classifying” result indicators and hiding them from public opinion continued.
It should be noted that Pillar II Working group members have apparently become more demanding in assessing the achievement of actions. Thus, at the hearing on May 28, 2014, members of this WG changed the assessment of the implementation of 7 actions from partially completed to uncompleted. The basis for such decisions was reaching the deadline for the implementation of the action and the lack of information on the achievement of result indicators. Experts welcome the approach adopted by WG-II members and believe that their exigency should be taken over by members of other Working Groups.
During the second quarter of 2014, 300 court hearings were monitored and 342 user satisfaction questionnaires were filled in. In this regard, experts noted positive trends in terms of the number of sessions that were audio-recorded and the solemnity of court hearings attended by monitors. On the other hand, the lowest scores were achieved with regard to courts building facilities, and the management of courts’ electronic platforms.
We recall that the monitoring effort focused on the observation of two components: evaluation for the activities included in the Action Plan for the implementation of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy, and court trial monitoring. The Quarterly Monitoring Report No. 6 analyzed two types of actions, as follows: actions due to be fulfilled in the second quarter of 2014, overdue actions, set for completion as of March 31, 2014.
The electronic version of the Report is available on www.promolex.md and www.monitor.md
The Report was prepared within the project “Monitoring of Justice Sector Reform for Increased Government Accountability”, implemented by Promo-LEX and the Association for Efficient and Responsible Governance, with the financial support of the European Union. The project is co-financed by the East European Foundation from resources provided by the Government of Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark/DANIDA.
For more details, contact: Carolina Bondarciuc, Promo-LEX Press Officer, GSM: 069637849,
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