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A sector facing radical reform
Local authorities face pressure to take better account of citizens’ needs and help reduce local public expenditure.
Authorities are to respond more effectively to user demand…
For public operators, the transformations driven by the ‘digital revolution’ provide considerable opportunities in terms of both the content of services and the way of delivering them. The challenge is to align all these projects with the main strategic approaches of an office term and, then, simplify formalities in order to optimize local public services…
… while seeking to control costs more effectively
This is where the issue lies for local politicians and their departments: to ‘do more with less’.
In the effort to reconcile cost control and good investment management, what is at stake is: debt control and protection of self-funding capabilities, while maintaining a balance between income, operational needs and investment budgets. This is an absolutely crucial question since it ties in with public expectations that resources will be used efficiently.
Hence, there is an urgent need to strengthen local governance structure, optimize the operation of local authorities, assess local public policies and pool some functions in order to gain more leeway.
