23 - 25 November 2016

Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group Workshop and the meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials’ Network on Performance and Results

Paris, France

This event brought together members of the Working Group (WG) for Program and Performance Budgeting. The WG is comprised of 15 PEMPAL member countries and was established by the PEMPAL Budget Community or Practice (BCOP) under its Action Plan for FY2017. The objectives of the WG are: to identify key trends in program budgeting implementation and spending reviews; to learn from specific PEMPAL and international country examples in these areas; and to participate in the OECD survey of performance budgeting to provide baseline data on status of reforms and to identify good practices.

Several representation of the WG attended the annual OECD meeting of Senior Budget Officials’ Network on Performance and Results, on November 24-25, 2016.  The objective of this meeting was to learn about the current state of affairs and plans of OECD countries in performance budgeting reforms.  To take advantage of this opportunity of meeting face-to-face, the WG also organized an additional back-to-back workshop that was held before the OECD meeting on November 23.

The objectives of this workshop were: to review findings from performance budgeting cases of the selected countries outlined in the World Bank’s new report "Towards Next Generation Performance Budgeting: Reflections on the Experience of Seven Reforming Countries"; to discuss in detail the French experience in performance budgeting implementation, presented by  the Ministry of Finance of France; and to identify the key trends in spending reviews in selected OECD countries. In addition, the group held round table discussions to reflect on lessons learnt from advanced countries, shared updates on the Working Group countries’ developments, and decided on the future activities of the Group.