08-05-2024

Vice-Minister of Finance V. Česnulevičiūtė-Markevičienė: “Great responsibility entrusted to the CPMA Board”

Today, the new Board of the Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) met for the first meeting. The Ministry of Finance has set new ambitious objectives for the agency to focus on improving customer experience and effective communication.

“The expectations of the Ministry of Finance are focused on effective, efficient, high-quality service-providing, socially responsible and transparent activities of the Agency. The Board is entrusted with great responsibility, focusing on improving customer experience and effective communication. I have no doubt that balancing existing experiences and competences will ensure an even more efficient management of the agency and will start a new phase,” Vaida Česnulevičiūtė-Markevičienė, Vice-Minister of Finance says.

The following successful candidates were elected as independent Board members: Arūnas Penkaitis, Aurimas Tomas Staškevičius, Giedrius Simonavičius, Vaida Žukauskaitė and Daiva Žaromskytė-Rastenė.

The CPMA Board consists of 5 members: 3 independent Board members, one Board member from the Office of the Government, and one Board member from the Ministry of Finance. The term of office of the Board members is four years.

The CPMA Board will consider and make proposals to the Ministry of Finance regarding the agency's operational strategy, strategic operational goals and directions, the annual operational tasks of the agency's Director, as well as the actions necessary to achieve the agency's goals and to increase operational efficiency and awareness, to reduce the administrative burden, focusing on the needs of clients.

The activities of the agency cover many areas of state management: energy, culture, education and science, social security, transport, justice, foreign and internal affairs, health, business and national defence. The agency actively contributes to the implementation of reconstruction projects in Ukraine.The CPMA administers 16 investment programmes of the European Union, other donor countries and the state, with a total value of more than EUR 16.6 billion.