The Government is too focused on money and listens Too Little to Citizens. To solve major problems such as the nitrogen and climate crisis, the government must change, a major advisory body states on Thursday.
Because the Focus of the National Government – But also provinces and Municipalities – is too focused on efficiency and making money, The Netherlands Has Become Stuck, As It Were. This is state in a report by the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (RLI). This is an important advisory body of the government.
Financarly, That Policy Has Been Successful in recent decades. Companies Have Become Successful AS A Result and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP, The Total Dutch Economy) Has Grown. But that has come at the Expense of the Environment, Water Quality and Biodiversity, The Council Writes. The Title of the Report is not for nothing failure and getting up .
At the moment, The Netherlands is facing problems in Various Files That Are Difficult to Solve: Too High Co2 Emissions, A Shortage of Housing and the Nitrogen Crisis. The Cabinet Worked for a Number of Months This Spring on a Solution for the Nitrogen Crisis, But Failed to Do So. The Problem proved too complex.
The Rli Does Not Have the Solution Ready Either, But Advisors The Government to Engage in More Dialogue with Society. For decades, for example, associates, churches and other Groups have bone too ignored, while those child of communities (as the rli calls them) do a lot of thinking about solutions and are in the middle of society.
FEWER Rules and Procedures
In The Past, Those Child of Groups Played a Much Larger Role in Society. Companions nowadays have many more opportunities to achieve something in the Hague than Those Associations. The RLI Therefore advises The Government to Learn How People Think in Society.
FEWER Rules and Procedures also Make It Easier for Associations. In Addition, IT Helps, Accordance to the Council, for the Government Not Only to Tell What You Do, But also Why. That creates more understanding Among Citizens.
Politicians must be given room to fail
What also makes it easy to solve the complex crises of the moment is Wanting to Exclude Fewer Risks. At the moment, a “risk-enalse culture” Prevails in Governments, which leads to a “Lack of Decisiveness.”
Civil Servants Must First Find Out What Risks There Are And then Exclude Them All in New Policy. That slows down decision-making.
Because a culture of accountability has arisen from politics and society, politicians must never fail. While precisely the complex problems, such as the nitrogen crisis, housing crisis and layout of the country, are full of uncertainties. “Room for Failure is then crucial,” Writes the RLI.
Finally, Civil Servants Who Deal with Different Topics Must Work Together More. Because they are now too much in silos, they are working each other. That is not effective.