PPB Training for Lviv Oblast Housing and Communal Services Experts
25 November 2009
A one-day training workshop “Instructional Materials for Implementation of Performance Program Budgeting (PPB) Method for the Formulation and Execution of Local Budgets” for specialists of the housing and communal services sector of the Lviv Oblast, including the cities of Lviv, Drohobych, Morshyn, Stryi, and Chervonohrad, took place in Lviv on 25 November 2009.
The training workshop organized by IBSER with the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine was attended by 25 participants representing the housing and communal services directorates and departments, and finance directorates and departments, which coordinate activities in the housing and communal services sector, as well as the staff engaged in implementation of the energy-conservation program and development of budget programs related to energy-conservation activities in the above cities of the Lviv Oblast.
The Deputy Director of the Lviv Oblast Principal Finance Directorate Svitlana I. Nakonechna opened the event, welcoming the participants and noting the importance of continued implementation of the PPB experiment in the pilot towns and rayons of the Lviv Oblast. She also emphasized the need of learning the practical aspects of PPB budgeting, in particular, of the issues related to the development of budget programs in the housing and communal services sector.
The experienced experts of the Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research (IBSER) conducted the training session. They introduced the participants to the theoretical foundations of PPB, instructional materials, and practical aspects of application of this method in accordance with the methodological documents developed by the Ministry of Finance.
In the course of the training session, the participants familiarized themselves with the components of budget programs, the rules of filling out the budget requests for preparing the draft municipal budget for the planned year, the rules of compiling a budget program passport, as well as the requirements for preparing the quarterly and annual reports on implementation of budget program passports.
By this workshop, IBSER launches another series of PPB training to be continued throughout December 2009 in the rest of the pilot oblasts (Luhansk, Zhytomyr, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea). The training is delivered as part of the continued joint efforts by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and IBSER intended for further implementation of PPB budgeting at the local level, being one of the key components of the Municipal Finance Strengthening Initiative project, which is implemented by IBSER with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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