Description
Ministry of Transport (MoT) spends dozens of billions of Czech crowns from the state budget and EU funds in the construction of transport infrastructure. The results of audits show that MoT is far from what could be considered a good governor. The project aims to monitor and analyze the existing practice as well as to promote a qualitative change in the decision-making processes of MoT and its subordinated bodies. The main objective of the project is to help to introduce measures to prevent conflicts of interests in the decision-making process, support transparency in investment activities, enhance project management quality and strengthen controlling mechanisms. Monitoring will result in an analysis describing the existing practice while the „advisory“ part of the project will identify necessary changes to be made.
Summary of project results
Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic is one of the important executive bodies and is handling with highest investment financing among all state institutions. It also receives and disburses biggest share of the EU funds in the country. At the same time there remains range of problems and discrepancies in the process of selection, preparation and implementation phase of transport projects. The Department also faces non-existence of the state ownership policy towards subordinated bodies in the transport sector and questionable nominations of persons into supervising structures of these bodies. Among main outputs of the project, 3 concrete case studies on public procurement process were conducted on selected transport constructions. Furthermore, 3 analyses of the situation on state ownership policy and nomination processes were prepared, that also describe concrete cases of questionable nomination practice. Based on this research, we have defined measures and steps that are necessary to get introduced as a good governance measures in the transport department. These are summarized in the document called Decalogue of problems and recommendations for transport investments and mainly in the Appeal to the minister from the Transparent Transport Sector Initiative. Outcomes were subject of the advocacy actions focused on the Transport Dept., communication of Supreme Audit Office and parliament members (Transport and Economic committees). Transport Department and its subordinated institutions obtained structured information and set of detailed recommendations for measures to be taken in the specific field of activities. Minister of transport in the media reaction to our Appeal acknowledged, that in number of issues we might be right. In the field of personal nominations we contributed to the approval of the proposed Act on Nominations by the government in June 2016.
Summary of bilateral results