Past Events

The BCOP Executive Committee (EC) met in Ljubljana, Slovenia from February 19 to 21, 2009. Highlights of the meeting include: A revised BCOP Action Plan for 2009.  Please note the upcoming events, especially the OECD SBO meeting in St.…

The PEMPAL Steering Committee met in Ljubljana on July 3, 2008 to discuss the previous activities and future plans as set by the Communities of Practice. The Steering Committee Meeting was preceeded by the Meeting of the members of PEMPAL Executive…

The meeting of the Executive Committee was organized back-to-back with the meeting of Senior Budget Officials from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of…

All three COPs gathered together for the first time in Istanbul in February 2008 to exchange their experiences and to assess the work of PEMPAL. Each COP had its own meeting, and all three COPs met to discuss “Monitoring and Evaluation of Public…

Study tour to Slovakia was organized on 5-9 August 2007 for the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tajikistan officials with focus on the general issues related to the midterm budget planning within the system of the financing of the school…

Objectives of Tbilisi workshop: Maximum interaction between Members Participants get their questions answered about program budgeting Case studies presented by Slovenia and Slovakia to generate discussion Generate BCOP…

What we were trying to achieve: Learning activities To learn from and with each other through community-oriented learning activities To hear about the practical experience of countries that have established internal audit To work on some challenges…

PEMPAL Budget Community of Practice held its first meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania in March 2007. The meeting was organized back-to-back with the third OECD  meeting of Senior Budget Officials from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European…

The goal of the workshop, which was co-sponsored by the World Bank Group, the UK Department for International Development and INWENT, was to bring together leading government officials in internal audit from European and Central Asian…

What we were trying to achieve: Learning activities To learn from and with each other through some community-oriented learning activities To adopt a shared framework for a project maturity model with stages and indicators To hear from countries…

PEMPAL was formally launched during a conference in Warsaw in April 2006, at a workshop sponsored by the World Bank, OECD, UK DFID, US Treasury Office of Technical Assistance, IMF, WB Institute, National Bank of Poland, and the German aid agencies…