As Wallonia undertakes a deep transformation of its public action, the Walloon Government is progressively setting up an unprecedented system for monitoring, steering and evaluating its public policies.
When he took office at the Elysette, the Minister-President was confronted with a striking reality: he received only the keys to the Elysette, literally and figuratively, without any monitoring tool. Every door had to be opened, every competence explored, and sometimes problematic, hidden or unforeseen situations were discovered. To give one example, the Minister for Energy had to wait nearly a year before obtaining an overview of renovation grants. This highlighted the crucial need for genuine support during government transitions, to ensure continuity and rigorous monitoring of public policies.
Faced with this reality, the Walloon Government decided to structure its action around strategic and operational objectives derived directly from the RPS. The aim is to translate political ambitions into concrete actions, jointly monitored by ministerial cabinets and administrations.
This new tool aims to create a shared vision of the projects led by the Government, to harmonise monitoring methods and to enable regular reporting on the progress of reforms. Each operational objective will be fed by concrete projects structured around common milestones, ensuring consistent monitoring at government level.
This new approach will improve coordination between cabinets and administrations, identify possible blockages more quickly and strengthen the Government's steering capacity through a consolidated view of projects and priorities.
The Walloon Government's vision is built around three major priorities: economic development, the well-being of Walloons, and a modernised, more efficient public administration that is more focused on concrete results.
In short, every minister will now have a structured monitoring framework to steer their projects, track milestones and, ultimately, more concretely evaluate the implementation of government commitments. Steering and evaluating public action is gradually becoming a genuine governance culture in Wallonia.