10 localities in Nghe An are subject to a survey on community investment supervision.
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of May 21, the Department of Science and Technology coordinated with the Provincial Fatherland Front to organize a workshop to contribute ideas on the sociological investigation task "Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the community investment supervision board's activities in Nghe An province".
The workshop was chaired by representatives of the Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; the workshop was attended by representatives of relevant departments, branches and localities subject to the survey.
Community investment supervision is a form of voluntary supervision by the people to monitor and evaluate the compliance with regulations on investment management, contributing to improving efficiency, ensuring investment activities are consistent with the planning and socio-economic development goals of the locality. Thereby, widely promoting socialist democracy, people's mastery, creating a mechanism for people to directly supervise, effectively implementing the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people check, people supervise, people benefit".
In recent times, Nghe An has implemented many construction projects directly related to socio-economic development, people's lives and urban and new rural infrastructure invested from the State budget and other legally mobilized capital sources. Investment projects in general and infrastructure construction investment projects using the State budget in particular often have many potential risks of violations during the implementation process.
Faced with such risks, strengthening supervision and control of the implementation of these projects from both the State and society is an objective and inevitable requirement. Therefore, the establishment and maintenance of community investment supervision boards is appropriate to the actual situation of localities, and is an important condition to ensure that projects are implemented effectively, for the right purpose, serving the goal of socio-economic development and improving the lives of local people.
Over the years, the monitoring activities of the community investment monitoring board have been widely, popularly and regularly implemented in localities in the province, gradually becoming systematic, operating effectively and achieving remarkable results, contributing to the implementation of State policies and laws, promoting direct supervision by the people.
Although certain results have been achieved, the activities of the community investment supervision board still have difficulties and problems in the process of organization and operation.
The 2024 sociological investigation task "Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the community investment supervision board's activities in Nghe An province" of the research team aims at 3 specific objectives: Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the community investment supervision board's activities in Nghe An province in the current period; Evaluating the difficulties and obstacles in the operation of the community investment supervision board; Proposing some solutions to improve the quality and effectiveness of the community investment supervision board's activities in Nghe An province.
Accordingly, the subjects of the investigation include 3 groups: Representatives of the community investment supervision board; Officials (district and commune level); Enterprises (Construction works and projects supervised by the community investment supervision board).
The study was conducted in Nghe An province. The survey areas are administrative units representing the sub-regions and economic sectors of Nghe An province, including 10 localities: Plains, coastal areas (5 districts): Vinh City, Yen Thanh, Nghi Loc, Dien Chau, Hoang Mai Town; Low and high mountains (5 districts): Thanh Chuong, Tuong Duong, Que Phong, Nghia Dan, Tan Ky. Implementation period is from April to December 2024.
At the workshop, delegates contributed their opinions on the contents of the sociological investigation task. They focused on difficulties and obstacles in community monitoring activities at the grassroots level; shared good, creative and effective practices in the locality; contributed ideas on the explanation content and survey form of the task... The workshop chair accepted the issues that delegates contributed for implementation.
