27 - 29 June 2016

Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group and OECD CESEE Senior Budget Officers Meeting

Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Budget Community of Practice (BCOP) of PEMPAL participating in the OECD Performance Budgeting survey to collect baseline information for the new PEMPAL Working Group on Performance and Program Budgeting, which have been recently established under BCOP in light of the priority of these reforms. 

To help with responding to the survey, BCOP and the OECD organized a workshop on 27 June 2016 which was held back-to-back with the 12th annual meeting of the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Senior Budget Officials (CESEE-SBO), in Ljubljana, Slovenia.  OECD experts responded to questions related to the survey based on recent experience of implementing the survey in OECD countries.

After the workshop, participating BCOP countries also attended the OECD CESEE-SBO meeting, which was co-hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Finance (CEF) and the Slovenian Ministry of Finance.  This meeting was held on the 28-29 June and will cover issues related to effectiveness of PFM and public governance reforms, current challenges of budgetary governance, fiscal transparency, and fiscal risks.