Ponomareva S.A. Coherence of strategic and budget planning: experience of the Vologda region

Svetlana Anatolyevna Ponomareva 

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Strategic Planning of the Vologda Region 

PonomarevaSA@gov35.ru 

Herzena St., 2, 160000 Vologda, Russian Federation 


Abstract. In the article the approaches to the creation of an optimal hierarchical system of indicators of social and economic development which were used when forming “The strategy of social and economic development of the Vologda region for the period till 2030” and other documents of strategic planning provided by the Federal law 172 “About strategic planning in the Russian Federation” are analyzed. The author paid a special attention to the questions of financial security of the realization of strategic objectives and tasks ensuring the coherence of strategic and budget planning both at the stage of formation of relevant documents, and in process of realization. The analysis included the questions of ensuring the stability of strategic plans in the conditions of frequent changes of the regional budget. A topical issue about the expediency of the correction of target indicators of regional state programs (subprogrammes) which by definition are on a joint of strategic and budget planning is separately considered. These two processes provide the solution of two tasks – the achievement of the objectives and the solution of the problems of social and economic development designated in the Strategy, they provide an effective expenditure of resources. In the article the existence of ensuring the reliability of indicators in documents of strategic planning of area is specified. In the article the package of measures, successfully applied in the Vologda region that are directed at the improvement of quality of planning, efficiency of activity of bodies of the executive government in the course of the implementation of the state programs on the basis of the use of systems of motivation and improvement of techniques of efficiency assessment is described. 

Key words: strategy, Vologda region, indicators of social and economic development, state program, budget, budget planning, efficiency. 

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