Improving the local infrastructure is one of the main prerequisites for reducing disparity within the municipalities, which is one of the most important goals for National Regional Development Strategy. Taking into consideration the fact that RDF is one of the main sources for financing infrastructural projects in municipalities, it is important to distribute fund resources within municipalities based on such criteria which should ensure reduction of disparity. Though, existing criteria (number of population and previous year’s spending) cannot support reduction of disparity. In addition to the mentioned criteria, defining other criteria, which will be based on the needs of municipality and economic factors, will support the development of municipalities and achieving specific goals defined within Regional Development Strategy.
In turn, there is a potential to improve the project implementation stage. In particular, proper monitoring system is a prerequisite for detecting and improving deficiencies on time. In addition development of project post evaluation phase will support the use the accumulated knowledge and experience in future projects, which will in turn improve project implementation process, quality and raise achieved results.
The State Audit Office of Georgia believes that by improving criteria for distribution of fund resources within municipalities, determining periodicity and format for presenting monitoring results and establishing the post evaluation practice for completed projects, will improve the management process of the projects financed by the RDF based on Government Commission’s decision.
