Assessing the Impact of Corruption on the Good Governance of Chișinău Municipality
Automatically translated summary. The full text is available in Romanian.
A study commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assesses how corruption affects the governance of Chișinău municipality. It examines the legal framework, the municipal budget and public services, estimates the cost of corruption, and proposes an electronic one-stop shop to reduce corruption risks.
Because Chișinău has no first-tier local authority, the City Council and City Hall exercise the powers of both tiers. The legal framework creates risks: the statute leaves too much room for unilateral decisions by the General Mayor, and privatisation rules allow land and premises to be sold well below market price. Budgeting is unstable, with delays of 75 to 270 days. In 2015 revenues were MDL 3.1 billion and expenditure MDL 3.3 billion, but only about 14% of revenues were own-source.
Informal payments for construction, advertising and trade permits total MDL 6 million, while the cost of corruption, estimated by motive, reaches MDL 111.7 million annually. City Hall provides over 40 public services, and 63 municipal enterprises operate in the city. The proposed one-stop shop, integrated with government services such as MPay and MCloud, would raise efficiency by 26% on average. The study was funded by Norway through the UNDP project.
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