The objective of the Functional review of the Ministry of infrastructure, housing and territorial planning was to assist in decision-making concerning the implementation of the Government’s modernization agenda for the public administration on the level of this specific Ministry.
Being a tool for evaluation and decision-making, the functional review of the Ministry, its conclusions and recommendations should facilitate the implementation of measures to rationalize its structures in order to allow for more efficiency and a better (re-)allocation of resources, especially human resources with the double objective to allow for a better return and to generate savings.
The FR was supposed to be a project of redefining the Ministry’s tasks, its organigram and the allocation of its organs, as well as decision-making responsibilities concerning its key functions.
It should also indicate:

• the needs in terms of staff, the redeployment of officials in the evolving context of reforms to anticipate and especially of deconcentration and decentralisation, taking into account the need to consolidate public finances; in terms of sustainability concerning the development of the wage share and the rebalancing of public expenditure;
• the impact of these functional reviews on the requirements to be taken into account in the context of functional reviews of other Ministries.

The specific objective of this mission was to conduct a functional review of the Ministry with the following characteristics:
a) a focus on relevance, coherence and on the necessity to adapt and adjust the tasks and organisational structures of the Ministry on the one side and the allocation of human and financial resources on these structures on the other side;

• for the sake of a better return and the generation of savings, e.g. throughout internal restructuring;
• taking into account the constraints that may exist at the level of reallocating and redeploying agents in order to accompany priority shifts and new needs in general and
• concerning the limitations of the statutory regulatory framework, especially aspects relating to the experts’ mobility and remuneration and
• particularly in view of the need of redeployment to the regions (decentralized services).

b) an analysis (SWOT or similar) on the capacity of concerned services (allocation-structures, affected posts and instruments available) in order to establish a “forecast management of jobs and skills” of the sector
c) formulation of recommendations for guidance and decision-making allowing decision-makers to identify accompanying actions to be foreseen, enabling the Ministry to engage in the progressive implementation of its reorganization and facilitating future steps to introduce periodic functional reviews of other entities within the sector.