The basic principles of the inter-ministerial and inter-institutional co-operation in Lithuania are formulated in the Law on Strategic Governance (approved in 2020) and the Strategic Governance Methodology (2021). Transversal cooperation at the national and local levels is mainly based on special inter-institutional action plans. These plans are approved by the government and provide for the distribution of tasks and activities of the cooperating parties, and performance indicators. According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Finance, in 2022, 41 inter-institutional work plans are going to be implemented at the national level.
Another form of inter-institutional cooperation is working groups that are created to address specific issues. Working groups are defined as advisory expert bodies that carry out specific tasks assigned to them by the Minister of Culture within a specified time frame. In 2022, the Ministry of Culture coordinates 10 inter-institutional working groups and 18 commissions that dealt with various issues of cultural policy, such as the emergency during the Covid-19 quarantine, preparation of documents on the inclusion of Kaunas modernist architecture in the UNESCO World Heritage List, implementation of the Culture Pass programme, etc. The latter programme is a joint project of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. These two ministries are also cooperating on the Reading Promotion Programme.
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