GIMPA opens workshop on performance budgeting
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in collaboration with the Regional Centres for Learning on Evaluation Results (CLEAR), on Monday began a training programme on performance budgeting for the public and development sectors.
The five-day programme has brought together representatives from the various ministries and government agencies with the aim to improve a sound macro-fiscal outcome and maintains fiscal sustainability as far as government income and expenditure is concerned.
Dr Marc Robinson, facilitator for the programme, said government budget comprised the allocation and the use resources and associated decisions about how the resources used would be acquired.
He said the budget process include aggregate fiscal policy formulation which determined government overarching objective for the budget deficit, debt and other relevant fiscal aggregate, which should be translated into decision on the levels of revenue and expenditure.
Dr Robinson said budget preparation enactment was another process of budget where government decides how much funding it would provide to which agencies and for which purposes and the budget execution, which refers to the carrying out of the expenditure plan developed in the budget like contracts and expenditure funds.
Dr Robinson said the participants would undergo training courses like performance concepts and indicators in budgeting, performance budgeting, programme budgeting, programme costing, accounting and control and evaluation.
Dr Charles Amoatey, CLEAR Coordinator, said the initiative was spearheaded by the World Bank and development partners, adding that development should focus on results.
Dr Amoatey said over the past two years, the World Bank had identified institutions in to provide capacity building for countries and that GIMPA and Kenyan School of Governance were chosen to host the CLEAR to build its capacity.
He said GIMPA was hosting the training programme as first of its kind in Africa and after that it would be rolled out throughout the public sectors.
Professor Sam Adams, Acting Dean of Business School, GIMPA, said the initiative was welcoming since it would broaden the frontier of capacity building in the public sector development.
Prof Adams said GIMPA believed in excellence in leadership, management and administration and therefore it was their expectation that the participants would finish the programme with a well informed knowledge than they came.
Source: GNA