Training Workshop
Day One - 18 June 2007
Plenary Session: Building towards budget credibility through improved budget formulation processes
1. Improving budget credibility: budget formulation processes
Florence Kuteesa, IMF East AFRITAC
2. Reforms to budget formulation in Uganda
Tim Williamson, Public Finance Consultant
Plenary Session: Modern approaches to expenditure planning – programme performance budgeting
Modern approaches to expenditure planning - programme performance budgeting
Simon Stone, Overseas Development institute
Group Sessions: Developing a programme performance budget
1. Group A: Kenya case study
Mary Betley, Public Finance Consultant (Facilitator)
2. Group B: Mali Case Study
Simon Stone, Public Finance Consultant (Facilitator)
3. Group C: Rwanda case study
Robert Clifton, National Treasury, South Africa (Facilitator)
Day Two - 19 June 2007
Plenary Session: Intergovernmental grants
A practitioner’s guide to intergovernmental fiscal transfers
Anwar Shah, World Bank
Background material
A practitioner’s guide to intergovernmental fiscal transfers
Anwar Shah, World Bank
Plenary Session: Expenditure control, accounting and financial management information systems
Imperfect systems IFMISs in Africa
Stephen Peterson, Public Finance Consultant (Facilitator)
Background material
1. The commandments of COTS: still in search of the promised land, David J. Carney and Patricia A. Oberndorf
2. Imperfect systems IFMISs in Africa, paper presented for the Budget Management and public Finance Accountability training programme, Stephen Peterson
Plenary Session: Should developing countries adopt accrual accounting?
Managing cash, ensuring predictability and discipline in budget execution
Vijay Ramachadran, IMF East AFRITAC
Plenary Session: Budget implementation, expenditure control and FMIS lessons from experience
Stephen Peterson, Public Finance Consultant (Facilitator)
Background material
Public financial management systems survey
Stephen Peterson, Public Finance Consultant
Day Three - 20 June 2007
Plenary Session: Policy and budget monitoring and evaluation
1. Policy and budget monitoring evaluation
Alta Folscher, Public Finance Consultant
2. Public expenditure tracking surveys: rationale, results and country cases
Oscar Picazo, World Bank, South Africa
3. Government wide monitoring and evaluation system
Ronette Engela, Presidency, South Africa
Background material
Development indicators mid-term review
Presidency, South Africa
Plenary Session: Accountability and integrity systems
1. Corruption: cases, consequences, folk remedies and what the doctor ordered
Anwar Shah, World Bank Institute
2. Some thoughts on accountability and integrity
James Donovan, SIDA
Background material
- Management accountability for public financial management
Muhammad Akram Khan - Tailoring the fight against corruption to country circumstances
Anwar Shah, Performance accountability and combating corruption, World Bank, 2007 - Corruption in tax administration
Mahesh C. Purohit, Performance accountability and combating corruption, World Bank, 2007 - Disrupting incidental and systematic corruption
Omar Azfar, Performance accountability and combating corruption, World Bank, 2007 - Corruption and fraud detection by supreme audit institutions
Kenneth M. Dye, Performance accountability and combating corruption, World Bank, 2007.
Plenary Session: Financial performance and accountability – the role of auditing
Financial performance and accountability – the role of auditing
Jan van Schalkwyk, Office of the auditor general, South Africa
Background material
Public sector performance auditing in developing countries
Colleen G. Waring and Stephen L. Morgan, Performance accountability and combating corruption, World Bank, 2007
Plenary Session: Designing PFM reform programmes
PFM reform programmes
Mary Betley, Public Finance Consultant
Study Tour
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Day One - 21 June 2007
Session 1: The budget process
A summary of the budget process
Kuben Naiddo, Deputy-director General, Budget Office
Session 2: Shaping the budget
Shaping the budget
Matthew Simmonds, Chief Director, Fiscal Policy
Session 3: Legislative framework and institutional arrangements
Introduction of a new chart of accounts in the South African context
Hennie Swanepoel, Chief Director, Public Finance Statistics
Roundtable discussion on interrogating the budget process
Barbara Hogan, Chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee on auditor-general (Chair)
Panelists
Andrew Donaldson, Deputy-director General, Public Finance
Dr. Bethuel Pitori Setai, Chair of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC)
Mr. Mkuseli Apleni, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs
Day Two - 22 June 2007
Session 1: Intergovernmental fiscal system
South Africa’s intergovernmental fiscal system
Kenneth Brown, Chief Director, Intergovernmental Policy
Session 2: Framework for managing programme performance information
Framework for managing performance information
Lesley Fisher, Director Budget Reform and Robert Clifton, USOTA
Background material
Framework for managing programme information, National Treasury
Session 3: Policy and budget analysis
Policy and budget analysis
Julia de Bruyn, Chief director, Social services and Dr. Kay Brown, Director, Integrated justice cluster