Joint Meeting of IWG and NAB

     A joint meeting of the National Advisory Board on Public Finance Management and Interdepartmental Working Group at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine was held on December 29, 2009 at the premises of the Big Conference Hall of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The event was held jointly by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine and the Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research, implementing the Municipal Finance Strengthening Initiative project with support from the USAID.
     The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and coordinate actions taken in order to implement Performance Program Budgeting (PPB) in local budgets. 
     Participants of the event discussed the proposals concerning the modernization of the experiment related to implementation of PPB at the local level and examined methodological principles of its implementation. In particular, forms and instructions concerning principal documents of the budgeting process under PPB at the local level, standard list of budgetary programs and indicators of their implementation results as well as the methodology for evaluation of experiment related to PPB implementation during local budgets preparation and execution were considered during the event. Members of the Interdepartmental Working Group have approved the said documents and recommended that the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine approve the respective instructions and document forms. 
     As regards a standard list of budget programs and their performance indicators, the event participants believe those must be approved by joint ordinances of the Ministry of Finance and line ministries, so that the latter should be involved as much as possible into the process of raising efficiency of funds spending in their respective sectors.
     The meeting was held with the participation of representatives of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, Ministry of Housing and Utility Services of Ukraine, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Ministry of Health of Ukraine, State Treasury of Ukraine, General Financial Department of the City of Kyiv, Association of Bankers of Ukraine, IBSER etc.