NAB
29 March 2013
National Advisory Board Meeting
A meeting of the National Advisory Board (NAB) on the issues of effective public finance management took place under the Municipal Finance Strengthening Initiative Roll-out (MFSI-II) Project on 29 March 2013.
The event was intended to discuss and coordinate the actions aimed at implementing progressive budgeting methodologies, including the Performance Program Budgeting (PPB) method.
The meeting was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and the State Treasury Service of Ukraine.
The meeting participants discussed the matter of amending the program classification and provisional classification of local budget expenditures. The finalization of the classifications is needed for starting to use them as of 2014 for the formulation and execution of PPB-based local budgets. In particular, for ensuring the uniformity of the budget process in Ukraine and adapting it to the program classification, the MFSI-II Project experts have suggested to introduce some changes to the provisional classification of local budget expenditures.
In order to implement the provisions of the President Program of Economic Reforms for 2010-2014 and Project Workplan, the MFSI-II experts have proposed and agreed with the meeting participants the relevant changes to be made to the forms of treasury reports on execution of local budgets. The proposed changes would ensure generation of PPB-based reliable and transparent reports by units of the State Treasury Service.
The meeting participants made a special focus on considering the practical aspects of implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of performance of local budget programs. As the result of the discussion, the participants have agreed to test the methodology of evaluation of budget program performance in individual pilot regions based on 2012 data. This would help to field-test the methodology (developed by MFSI experts) and allow to analyze the status of implementation of budget programs.
Implementation of the monitoring and evaluation methodology for local budgets would create opportunities for improving the efficiency of analysis of local budget execution and transparency of the budget process in Ukraine.
The event was intended to discuss and coordinate the actions aimed at implementing progressive budgeting methodologies, including the Performance Program Budgeting (PPB) method.
The meeting was attended by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and the State Treasury Service of Ukraine.
The meeting participants discussed the matter of amending the program classification and provisional classification of local budget expenditures. The finalization of the classifications is needed for starting to use them as of 2014 for the formulation and execution of PPB-based local budgets. In particular, for ensuring the uniformity of the budget process in Ukraine and adapting it to the program classification, the MFSI-II Project experts have suggested to introduce some changes to the provisional classification of local budget expenditures.
In order to implement the provisions of the President Program of Economic Reforms for 2010-2014 and Project Workplan, the MFSI-II experts have proposed and agreed with the meeting participants the relevant changes to be made to the forms of treasury reports on execution of local budgets. The proposed changes would ensure generation of PPB-based reliable and transparent reports by units of the State Treasury Service.
The meeting participants made a special focus on considering the practical aspects of implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of performance of local budget programs. As the result of the discussion, the participants have agreed to test the methodology of evaluation of budget program performance in individual pilot regions based on 2012 data. This would help to field-test the methodology (developed by MFSI experts) and allow to analyze the status of implementation of budget programs.
Implementation of the monitoring and evaluation methodology for local budgets would create opportunities for improving the efficiency of analysis of local budget execution and transparency of the budget process in Ukraine.
Glyanec