STANDING COMMITTEE HEAD RECEIVES SDC DELEGATION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Head of the parliamentary Standing committee on state structure A.Bakei Wednesday received a delegation of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) headed by Gerard Von Land, an evaluation team consultant for the SDC programme on governance and decentralization; and other officials. The SDC is implementing the programme on governance and decentralization with an aim to promote the works for decentralization and reforms which are realized by the Mongolian government with a non-refundable aid from the Swiss government. This programme’s main objective is to strengthen its democratic processes and increase citizen participation in decision-making processes, the SDC officials said, and they interested in the programme’s correlation with the policy by parliament. In response, Mr Bakei said the action programme of the current government of Mongolia fully meets policy and goals of parliament, and added goals and purposes of the both parliament and government focus on decentralization and ensuring citizens’ participation.