IBSER continues working proactively towards implementation of the Performance Program Budgeting (PPB) method for budget planning and execution in the Ukrainian regions selected as part of the Municipal Finance Strengthening Initiative Project, which is implemented with support of USAID.
In particular, in the period of 19-22 April, 2010 the series of training workshops/consultations on preparing budget programs in the areas of education, healthcare, housing and communal services for the year 2010 were delivered in the project’s pilot regions according to the following schedule:
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea:
19 April – for Housing and Communal Services sector;
20 April – for Education and Healthcare sectors;
- Luhansk Oblast:
21 April - for Housing and Communal Services sector;
22 April - for Education and Healthcare sectors.
In addition, the consultative efforts were also extended to new cities and rayons, which joined the PPB pilot in 2010 and were approved at meetings of the Interdepartmental Working Group of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in 2009. In particular, a number of basic training workshops were delivered to the new pilot participants in the period of 19 through 21 April as follows:
19 April - for representatives of the city of Saky, Autonomous Republic of Crimea;
21 April – for representatives of new cities and rayons of the Lviv Oblast;
21 April – for representatives of the city of Krasnodon, Luhansk Oblast.
The instructive materials of the training workshops/consultations are targeting the key spending units, lower-level spending units, and the specialists of Finance Directorates, who coordinate activities of the selected cities and rayons in the said sectors.
Glyanec