Issue № 99. August 2023

Socio-Economic Development Strategies of the Russian Federation Regions: Implementation Monitoring and Control

Raisa N. Shpakova
DSc (Geographical sciences), Associate Professor, MGIMO University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail:production2003@mail.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9916-0113

Dmitriy I. Gorodetskiy
DSc (Economics), Professor, MGIMO University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: gorod1949@mail.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3052-1371

The subject of this article is the problems of organization of implementation monitoring and control of regional strategies of socio-economic development in the Russian Federation. The actual state of the monitoring and control organization was determined based on the materials of 83 regional strategies. It is established that weak regulatory and methodological regulation reduces the potential of control measures in improving strategic management processes. It is proposed to begin the reorganization of the monitoring and control system for the implementation of strategies by clarifying the concepts of monitoring and control, followed by separation and specification of their tasks. The differentiation is based on the idea of monitoring as the collection, systematization of information necessary for control and its simplest primary processing, and control as a deep analysis of the information received with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of the strategic planning system. The proposal is substantiated to transfer the functions of monitoring and controlling the implementation of strategies to the control and accounting bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and at the federal level to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the following grounds: the independent status of the control and accounting bodies in relation to the executive authorities is a factor that ensures an increase in the level of objectivity of control; control and accounting bodies are endowed with a wide range of control powers, not only in the budgetary and financial sphere, but also in a number of other sections of public administration, which implies a sufficient level of competence in this area; The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation has experience in auditing national projects. At the same time, the content and results of the relevant expert-analytical activities fully correspond to the tasks of monitoring and controlling the implementation of strategic planning documents set out in the legislation. With this in mind, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation can provide methodological guidance in the monitoring and control of strategies by regional control and accounting bodies.

Keywords

Socio-economic development strategy, regional strategy, strategy implementation monitoring, strategy implementation control, control and accounting state bodies.

DOI: 10.24412/2070-1381-2023-99-131-143