Best practice Cases of the 4th Quality Conference for Public Administration in the EU

Application of “one contact” (“one-stop-shop”) principle in Vilnius city municipality

Country: 

Lithuania

Organisation:

Vilnius city municipal government administration

www homepage:

http://www.vilnius.lt/new/en/vadovybe.php

Contact person:

Mr. Sigitas Bargaila - Head of the Front Desk/ Visitors Service, Department of Human Resources

Address:

Konstitucijos Ave. 3, LT-09601 Vilnius

E-mail:

Sigitas.Bargaila@vilnius.lt

Phone:

+370 5 211 2078

Fax:

+370 5 211 2222

Level:

Local

Sector:

General administration

Short description of the case:

The best way to describe the project is to present reasons of project development: to organise visitors’ service after moving all the structural units of the Municipality into a new building at Konstitucijos Ave. 3, Vilnius and to improve residents‘ service and execution of public administration procedures. The main goals of „One Contact“ principal implementation: - To develop an effective system of service quality management covering all fields of management and activities; - To enhance the efficiency and transparency of public administration decision making process arranging all the processes in the Municipality in such a way that they could ensure the best possible outcome and the final product could satisfy the needs of the visitors; - To improve quality of provided services; - To create conditions for provision of services in the neighbourhoods; - To prevent officers who prepare and adopt decisions from direct contact with visitors in order to evade corruption or abuse the power by an employee-service provider.

Main feature of the case:

- Developing and managing processes

- The satisfaction of customers and citizens

Key words:

Front office services, e-government, effective system of service quality, efficiency and transparency of public administration decision making process.

Further information:

Long case description (PDF-form)
Case presentation (PDF-form)