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In the governments 100-day plan approved yesterday a new and important initiative is to draw up a national action plan for regional development in order to ensure regional investments and balanced development throughout Estonia. It is also planned to update the basic documents of state reform and real estate policy.Minister of Public Administration Jaak Aab explained that this time together with the preparation of the budget and the planning of euro funds it is planned to describe the planned activities and funds also in the key of Estonias regional development. The regional development plan determines what specifically the ministries and state institutions will do for the development of the regions. Funds from the state budget and foreign funds must also be provided for this purpose. In order to get out of the crisis we need to revive the economy and for that we must very precisely target investments and allocate support funds to the regions the Minister emphasized.Currently we have five regional programs Southeast Estonia Ida-Virumaa Setomaa Peipsire and Vikesaarte programs. But we must also look at Estonia as a whole. Each region has its own advantages and challenges but there are many similarities across the country said Jaak Aab. In his view both case-by-case and universal measures need to be taken. National programs must create more favorable and capacious conditions for areas whose development must be accelerated in terms of business jobs and the living environment Aab added.The states real estate policy is also being reviewed. The current real estate strategy document was approved by the government in 2007 in the meantime the strategic framework for public administration has been supplemented with the preparation of new development documents and an activity-based state budget. Although these principles are still relevant today the economic environment has changed and in practice new challenges challenges and special cases have arisen for the parties over time which were not foreseen in the previous strategy the Minister mentioned. The innovation of the real estate strategy is primarily the specification of the previous strategy - taking into account the changed circumstances new indicators will be set to assess the implementation of the strategy. In addition it is planned to review the current state of state reform activities and update the state reform action plan within 100 days in order to ensure sustainable efficient and accountable state government. With the previous government a large-scale consolidation of state institutions and support services was carried out and more than 1000 state-paid jobs were removed from the capital. From the activities already in progress the consolidation and organization of various support services will continue - the states basic ICT services the state laboratory services and the document management service. Preparations are also being made to find solutions for more efficient organization of the services provided by the state.
