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Government Plan 2000-2006
PRESENTATION
The fifth commitment sets out our obligation to guarantee that public administration ensures the conditions needed to allow a state of governability. Therefore, we guarantee an unyielding respect for individual and communal guarantees within a framework of democracy, freedom, legality, truth, justice, peace, and equal opportunity. Our government will be humanistic, inclusive, participative and efficient: it will be a government in which solidarity, subsidiarity, collaboration between society and the various levels and powers of government are the order of the day, so as to thereby guarantee the development of our state and its people.
CURRENT SITUATION
INFORMATION
It is necessary to inform the public of the services and procedures offered by the state government. It is therefore important to improve the means by which this kind of information reaches people.
HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY
In an attempt to generate responsibility, and in response to the public demand for accountability and clarity in the presentation of results and objectives, the Government of the State of Guanajuato has established thorough policies to reinforce all our efforts and to guarantee honesty and transparency in the use of resources, amongst them:
• Requiring public servants to make a declaration of their personal wealth.
• The publication of state financial statements in the media across the state.
• The strengthening of the figure of comptroller and the creation of a social comptroller´s office.
• The annual government report through which the population of the state aris made aware of the state of public administration.
Similarly, we shall investigate the need for an administrative ombudsman, who would issue recommendations regarding administrative control.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
In the area of democratic planning, the level of coordination and liaison between institutions must be reinforced in order to ensure that the planning takes place within the framework of current norms and perspectives.
Public involvement has been boosted thanks to the Municipal Development
Planning Councils (COPLADEM) at a municipal level and the Guanajuato State
Development Planning Council (COPLADEG) at the state level, bearing in
mind the importance of strengthening public participation within the new
legal framework as regards planning.
THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES
Recent opinion polls have given us an idea of the public’s perception of the services provided by the state government. Graph 12 shows how various government services were judged (where 1 = the lowest score, 10 = the highest score). The results also indicate where there is room for improvement in the quality of public services.
STATE GOVERNMENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
Income and the way in which budget resources are channeled are the main elements of public finances.
In terms of income, there is an undeniable dependence on Federal Government
funds. Such funds accounted for 92% of total income for 199966,
(41% for specific purposes, 51% non-specific). Own income therefore (taxes,
duties, user fees and part of public services tax income) accounts for
a small proportion of the public spending budget, leaving the state government
little room for maneuver in its ability to allocate resources for its
priorities.
Regarding financing through public debt, the proportion of the state spending
budget financed by state debt has been reduced; the stability and soundness
of state finances have enabled credit and investment capacity to improve,
along with the state’s ability to meet its financial commitments on time.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
In recent years, state public administration has begun a number of projects aimed at bringing about the modernization of public administration in order to make work processes more efficient. To do this, it has employed total quality, constant improvement and process reengineering techniques. This process now needs to combine these efforts in a program that takes into account a range of aspects, such as: organic structures, interinstitutional work processes, performance evaluation, the training of public servants, standardized planning techniques, and so on.
COORDINATION BETWEEN THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT
Regarding the coordination between federal and state governments, there have been a number of agreements reached which guarantee the transfer of a range of functions and services, whilst ensuring total respect for the sovereignty of the state from the federal government.
Similarly, there are a range of mechanisms in place which coordinate activities between state and municipal authorities, whilst guaranteeing the autonomy of the latter.
Coordination between the Judicial Power and the Legislative Power must
be reinforced in order to guarantee their legality and absolute respect
for their faculties
Similarly, there is clear support for the move towards municipalization, for which reason greater resources and contributions have been assigned to the municipalities in strict accordance with Article 115 of the Mexican Constitution.
• To strengthen the full exercise of the municipalities’ allocated duties
and responsibilities.
• To ensure that the services for which they are responsible are provided appropriately.
• To design a mechanism to monitor administrative and financial transfers.
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Another function of the state government is to guarantee social peace and respect for human rights. To do this, there needs to be a strengthening of the mechanisms used to detect and promptly deal with public demands and safeguard individual and social guarantees.
OBJECTIVES
General Objective
1. To firmly establish a sense of credibility and trust for government
amongst society.
Specific objective
1.1 To facilitate access to information regarding the use of public resources
and the progress of government actions.
- Goals to 2006
• To guarantee the right to information.
- Strategies
- Strengthen the systems used to compile, store, and distribute significant information.
- Permanently generate objective public information.
- Actions
• Create areas and the means to guarantee easy and direct access to information.
Specific objective
1.2 To enhance communication between government and society in general.
- Goals to 2006
• To establish a system of permanent all-round communication to encourage public confidence in government.
• To achieve a positive perception of government and public servants by the public.
Strategies
1.2.1 Establish permanent channels of communication between government and the public.
1.2.2 Ensure periodic open sessions to bring together public servants and citizens.
• Encourage the use of the channels of communication and information that
are available to the government.
• Publicize government activity and citizens’ rights.
• Maintain citizens informed of the progress of their enquiries.
Specific objective
1.3 To ensure transparency in the government’s actions and its use of
resources, and that public servants act in accordance with the law at
all times.
- Goals to 2006
• To create a higher audit authority.
• To create a system that ensures accountability.
- Strategies
1.3.1 Strengthen the internal and external control organs that monitor programs and oversee the appropriate use of resources.
1.3.2 Evaluate and control public servants’ performance.
- Actions
• Promote constitutional reform to allow the creation of a higher audit authority.
• Establish a clear system of accountability.
• Diversify public audit information.
• Evaluate the degree to which the state government fulfills its priority programs and projects.
• Strengthen existing public spending control and monitoring mechanisms.
• Apply administrative disciplinary procedures and, wherever the case, assign responsibility to public servants.
• Combat impunity where public servants have broken the law.
General Objective
2. To strengthen committed public and citizen participation in the process
of development of the state.
Specific objective
2.1 To promote a culture of civil involvement amongst citizens.
- Goals to 2006
• To propose a new Planning Law and its parameters.
• To formally establish the legal modes of citizen involvement: plebiscite, referendum, and popular consultation.
- Strategies
2.1.1 Provide areas in which citizens can participate in the development of the state.
Actions
• Carry out programs that establish links with groups and organizations within the state.
Specific objective
2.2 To establish and consolidate participation and commitment schemes
with public administration and government.
- Goals to 2006
• To create a State Development Plan that encompasses the next twenty-five years.
• To ensure public involvement in the drawing up of plans and programs.
• To consolidate regional development councils.
- Strategies
2.2.1 Establish a State Planning System.
2.2.2 Consolidate existing planning structures.
2.2.3 Strengthen public participation in state, regional and municipal development plans.
- Actions
• Increase public involvement in the workings of government offices and departments throughout the state.
• Implement information and monitoring schemes to oversee public.
• Draw up a regional development program.
General Objective
3. To improve the quality of government
actions in order to satisfy the public.
Specific objective
3.1 To optimize the use of the financial, material and technological resources
available to the government.
Goals to 2006
• To have greater resources available to satisfy social needs.
Strategies
3.1.1 Define and establish criteria and mechanisms that will reinforce and optimize the use of resources.
3.1.2 Diversify and strengthen sources of finance for government actions.
3.1.4 Direct government activity towards providing greater social benefit.
3.1.5 Ensure better quality and more efficient planning in public spending.
- Actions
• Consolidate the processes related to the supply and acquisition of materials.
• Establish mechanisms that will permanently ensure that the government has an accurate analysis and up-to-date inventory of all state government resources.
• Introduce and promote a policy regarding debt incurrence as a means of obtaining economic resources.
• Update public works legislation.
• Include cost-benefit analyses in planning processes.
Specific objective
3.2 To improve the simplification of administrative processes and so provide
better-quality public services.
- Goals to 2006
• To improve response times in offices providing attention to the public.
- Strategies.
3.2.1 Direct results towards the citizen.
3.2.2 Generally improve work methods, reinforcing these through the incorporation of technological advances and trained personnel.
3.2.3 Bring services closer to the people.
3.2.4 Administrative deregulation and adjustment of norms.
- Actions
• Evaluate and control the provision of services.
• Analyze and optimize all processes.
General Objective
4. To strengthen coordination between the three levels and powers of government.
Specific objective
- Goals to 2006
• To promote federalism in accordance with the terms of the Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico.
- Strategies
4.1.1 Set up mechanisms with which to coordinate federalization policies and programs.
4.1.2 Ensure the involvement and promotion of tax coordination.
- Actions
• In collaboration with the federal executive, establish joint-finance schemes between state, federal and municipal authorities to be included in the Convenio de Desarrollo Social, the state development agreement.
• Establish guidelines regarding the responsibilities and scope of the three levels of government.
• Establish proposals regarding the procedures and mechanisms to be used when distributing funds and assigning responsibilities between federal and state government.
Specific objective
4.2 To support and encourage municipal development.
- Goals to 2006
• To strengthen the process of municipalization.
• To establish work agendas with the 46 municipalities to promote their development.
Strategies
4.2.1 Establish ways to coordinate the programs and policies related to the process of municipalization.
4.2.2 Provide support to strengthen the political, financial and administrative capabilities of the municipalities.
4.2.3 Encourage public participation in the process of municipal development.
4.2.4 Establish ways to manage collaboration between state and municipal offices and departments.
- Actions
• Support the creation of a municipal planning system
• Redesign the system by which municipal contributions and funding are distributed.
• Deliver federal and municipally derived funds promptly and effectively.
• Establish criteria for evaluating and monitoring the performance of municipal authorities.
Specific objective
4.3 To ensure effective links and permanent coordination between the three
powers of government.
- Goals to 2006
• Fulfill the joint work agenda with he Judicial and Legislative powers
Strategies
4.3.1 Establish a system of intergovernmental liaison and coordination.
4.3.2 Ensure the involvement of public authorities and all contributors to the development process in state planning.
- Actions
• Adapt the regulatory guidelines relating to skills and functions.
General Objective
5. To improve the conditions that safeguard the social and individual
assurances of Guanajuato’s citizens.
Specific objective
Goals to 2006
• To respect human rights when carrying out government actions
• To seek sound solutions to social conflicts.
- Strategies
5.1.1 Establish mechanisms to attend to and find solutions to social demands.
5.1.2 Ensure consideration for all social groups in the taking of decisions that are in the common interest.
- Actions
• Identify and attend to social demands.
• Fulfill the recommendations of the Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos, the human right ombudsman’s office, and make good infringements upon human rights.
• Detect and promptly deal with possible social conflicts.
General Objective
6. To Strengthen the Development of the State’s Public Administration.
Specific objective
6.1 To ensure that public administration functions satisfactorily throughout
areas and sectors.
Goals to 2006
• To create a model system of inter-institutional coordination in state public administration.
• To present the Executive Power’s proposal for a new Organic Law.
• To reform internal regulations and foundation decrees in regional departments and offices.
• To create Departments of Health, Public Safety and Human and Social
Development.
Strategies
6.1.1 Coordinate and link the various offices and departments of state public administration.
Actions
• Include multidisciplinary workgroups to help ensure that the government fulfils its commitments.
• Strengthen the areas and sectors that make up state public administration.
Specific objective
6.2 To boost the development of state public administration institutions.
- Goals to 2006
• To carry out ongoing improvement schemes in state public administration offices and departments.
- Strategies
6.2.1 Create institutional development programs appropriate to each state public administration department and office.
6.2.2 Update and ratify the norms, policies and processes in force in state public administration departments and offices.
6.2.3 Promote a culture of quality awareness in all offices and departments of state public administration
Actions
• Create a system of evaluation to look at the performance of each office and department of state public administration.
• Periodically analyze the activities of each office or department.
Specific objective
6.3 To develop the human capital involved in state public administration
and lay the foundations for greater professionalism amongst public servants.
- Goals to 2006
• To provide training for public servants.
• To establish the concept of a career in the civil service in state public administration.
- Strategies
6.3.1 Develop and professionally train state public administration personnel.
6.3.2 Design mechanisms to regulate careers in the civil service.
- Actions
• Set out norms and policies regarding the remuneration, administration, training and development of personnel.
• Establish a merit system to deal with the selection, promotion and career development of personnel.
• Introduce a training program for state public servants.
• Evaluate workers performance.
Specific objective
6.4 To promote a public administration that is environmentally responsible.
- Goals to 2006
• To introduce a system of environmental management in state government departments and offices.
Strategies
6.4.1 Sensitize and make public servants aware of the need for sustainable management in the use of resources and the preservation and protection of the environment.
6.4.2 Provide personnel with the theoretical and practical tools and knowledge that will ensure an improvement in institutional processes with a focus on preserving the environment.
- Actions
• Set up programs that will provide energy and fuel savings, and efficient water use, as well as greater responsibility in the use of office materials, waste management and the contracting of goods and services with less environmental impact
PROGRAMS
Regional Programs
Northeastern Regional Development Program.
Northern Regional Development Program.
Southeastern Regional Development Program.
Southern Regional Development Program.
Central Eastern Regional Development Program.
Central Western Regional Development Program.
Political Development and Networking program.
Education, Culture and Recreation program.
Health program.
Social and Human program.
Economic and Environmental program.
Agriculture and Livestock program.
Communications and Transport program.
Pursuit and Execution of Justice program.
Public Safety program.
