Creation of the Directorate for Presidential Strategic Planning, Budget and Public Investment 2014
Poder Ejecutivo
- Decree: 266-2013
- Published: February 28, 2014
- Issuing body: Poder Ejecutivo
- Category: Administrative
Summary
This decree creates three new presidential directorates to improve State administration: one for Strategic Planning and Budget that designs plans and allocates resources; another for Results Management that oversees goal achievement; and one for Transparency that fights corruption. It affects all ministries and public agencies that must align with these new bodies.
Considerations
Whereas, in accordance with Article 245 of the Political Constitution, the President of the Republic has under his charge the supreme direction and coordination of the Centralized and Decentralized Public Administration, the General Administration of the State and therefore to direct the general policy of the State and represent it, being able to act by himself or in Council of Ministers.
Whereas it is an attribution of the President of the Republic, among others, to administer the Public Treasury, to collect the revenues of the State and to regulate their investment in accordance with the Law and to direct the economic and financial policy of the State.
Whereas the Executive Branch requires an organizational structure that strengthens the fulfillment of both general and sectoral policies and objectives in order to satisfy the real needs of the Honduran people.
Whereas it is an attribution of the President of the Republic to issue decrees in accordance with the Law.
Articles
There is created the Presidential Directorate of Strategic Planning, Budget and Public Investment, as an administrative body of the Presidency of the Republic, attached to the Secretariat of State for General Government Coordination, whose Director shall be freely appointed and removable by the President of the Republic, with the following powers:
- a)
To formulate the proposal for national strategic planning within the framework of the Country Vision and Nation Plan materialized in an Annual Strategic Plan and a Multi-year Strategic Plan;
- b)
To propose general global and sectoral policies and recommend how to improve their effectiveness and the impact of government programs;
- c)
To propose policies promoting equal opportunity;
- d)
To propose the allocation of resources for achieving the objectives and goals defined by the President of the Republic within the Macroeconomic Framework in the Annual Strategic Plan and in the Multi-year Strategic Plan, both by sectors, through the coordination of the Budget Subsystem and the Public Investment Program; and their linkage with reimbursable and non-reimbursable External Cooperation;
- e)
To analyze national statistics and conduct prospective studies required to guide medium and long-term planning;
- f)
The administrative structures, personnel and budget of the former Secretariat of Planning (SEPLAN) and the organizational and budgetary structures of the General Directorates of Budget and Public Investment linked to the functions described above shall be attached to this Presidential Directorate.
There is created the Presidential Directorate of Management by Results, as an administrative body of the Presidency of the Republic, attached to the Secretariat of State for General Government Coordination, whose Director shall be freely appointed and removable by the President of the Republic, with the following powers:
- a)
To assist the entities of the Executive Branch in the formulation of institutional and operational strategic planning annually in accordance with the objectives and general goals defined in the National and Sectoral Strategic Planning within the framework of the Country Vision and Nation Plan materialized in the Annual Strategic Plan and Multi-year Strategic Plan, generated by the Presidential Directorate of Strategic Planning, Budget and Public Investment.
- b)
To create mechanisms and procedures for monitoring and evaluating the results of Government management.
- c)
To propose for consideration of the President of the Republic the candidates for Compliance Directors in each Sector-Coordinating Secretariat of State, line Secretariats of State and in each Institution of the Executive Branch, who shall be freely appointed and removable by the President of the Republic. The Compliance Directors shall report to the Directorate of Management by Results and shall assist in their respective institutions in the preparation and monitoring of the execution of annual institutional strategic plans, as well as in the effective functioning of the National System of Management by Results.
- d)
To provide permanent training to the Compliance Directors and to the Planning and Management Evaluation Units (UPEG) which shall be directed by them for the fulfillment of their responsibilities.
- e)
To formulate recommendations to the President of the Republic to improve the achievement of the objectives and goals of the Government of the Republic.
- f)
The administrative structures, personnel and budgetary matters of the former Secretariat of Planning (SEPLAN) linked to the functions described above shall be attached to this Presidential Directorate.
There is created the Presidential Directorate of Transparency, Modernization and State Reform as an administrative body of the Presidency of the Republic, attached to the Secretariat of State in the Office of General Government Coordination, whose Director shall be freely appointed and removable by the President of the Republic, with the following powers:
- a)
To formulate and propose policies and programs of transparency and anti-corruption efforts in coordination with external control entities and other State bodies with transparency and anti-corruption functions;
- b)
To promote the practice of public ethics and accountability;
- c)
To strengthen, make more efficient and establish adequate coordination of internal controls;
- d)
To strengthen transparency in the allocation and use of public resources;
- e)
To analyze, propose and execute plans for the modernization and reform of the State in order to make it more efficient, effective and transparent; and,
- f)
To promote the use by State institutions of computer technology to simplify government, bring it closer to the citizen and make it more open. The National Office for Integral Development of Internal Control (ONADICI) shall be attached to this Presidential Directorate as a specialized technical body of the Executive Branch, in charge of the integral development of institutional internal control; and the Regulatory Office for Government Contracting and Acquisitions (ONCAE).
This Decree is of immediate execution and must be published in the Official Gazette La Gaceta. Given at Presidential House, in the city of Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., on the third day of the month of February of the year two thousand fourteen. JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC JORGE RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ ACERRO SECRETARIAT OF GENERAL GOVERNMENT COORDINATION REINALDO SÁNCHEZ SECRETARIAT OF THE PRESIDENCY RIGOBERTO CHANG CASTILLO SECRETARIAT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, GOVERNANCE AND DECENTRALIZATION ROBERTO OCHOA MADRID SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, BY LAW LISANDRO ROSALES SECRETARIAT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND INCLUSION ALDÉN RIVERA MONTES SECRETARIAT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROBERTO ORDÓÑEZ W. SECRETARIAT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC SERVICES ARTURO CORRALES SECRETARIAT OF SECURITY SAMUEL REYES SECRETARIAT OF DEFENSE YOLANY BATRES SECRETARIAT OF HEALTH MARLÓN ONIEL ESCOTO VALERIO SECRETARIAT OF EDUCATION CARLOS MADERO SECRETARIAT OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY JORGE LOBO SECRETARIAT OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK JOSÉ GALDÁMEZ SECRETARIAT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND MINING WILFREDO CERRATO RODRÍGUEZ SECRETARIAT OF FINANCES
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