The government is putting its plans on paper in a new initiative aimed at measuring the government's overall success rate. Over the next two days each of the 26 ministries will submit their working plans for the year.
The plans are to include goals, the dates on which the ministry hopes to meet various objectives, and ways to measure success.
The information from the ministries will be put together in one book, which is to be published and made public.
“I hope this is the start of a long tradition,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday. “Here, we are doing something that involves a certain degree of daring because we are writing, in the most measurable way possible, what we want to achieve in every ministry. We measure the successes in relation to the goals.”
He noted that a similar method of recording goals and later measuring achievement was used in the Finance Ministry during his term as Finance Minister. The method was later picked up by other ministries, and now for the first time will be used by the entire government, he said.