Public Expenditure Newsletter Issue
7, January - June 2003
Budget
Execution: Public Expenditure & Financial Accountability training
course
Past
public expenditure work in the Bank has focused on analyzing sectoral
allocations and more recently on budget formulation institutions.
Relatively little attention has been paid to budget execution, a
critical area for implementing plans and achieving program outcomes,
as well as for governance areas of accountability, transparency
and anti-corruption.
From
23-24 January 2003 the World Bank held its first course on Budget
Execution: Public Expenditure & Financial Accountability. The
objective of this event was to give participants a better understanding
of the relationship among the various components of budget execution
for developing an integrated approach to budget management. The
importance of these elements to accountability, governance, and
anti-corruption were also incorporated into the workshop.
The
workshop provided some reference material and basic case information
to the participants and provoked questions and discussion, guided
by staff from the World Bank and the IMF. A case study was used
to apply the concepts on the second day. The course was designed
as an intermediate level offering to deepen knowledge of budget
execution issues. The course targeted task managers and staff expected
to be involved in Country Financial Accountability Assessments and
Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews, as well as other staff
interested in understanding the nature of budget execution systems.
A second offering of this course was held on April 8-9, 2003 which
drew the participation of many World Bank resident mission staff.
