Financial Management: CEMAC Experts Share Experience
By Victorine BIY, Cameroon Tribune
The sixth annual meeting of senior budget officials of the Sub-region is underway in Yaounde.
Senior budget officials from the Central African Economic and
Monetary Community, CEMAC, ( Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the
Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo and Chad ) and Burundi
are sharing notes in Yaounde on the proper management of public
finances, with emphasis on the application of programme budgetting.
The high level meeting
of the International Monetary Fund’s Regional
Technical Assistance Centre for Central Africa (AFRITAC Central) Member
Countries (FoHBAC) opened yesterday, May 25, 2016, with the Minister
Delegate to the Minister of Finance, Elung Paul Che, chairing.
The forum, which is sixth, hinges on; “Transparency and performance
in the drafting of Appropriation Bills.” Delegates to the get-together
stressed that the second-generation reforms on the proper conception,
implementation and monitoring of public finances (the budget) comes in
the wake of the transition by countries of the economic bloc to
programme budgeting.
Setting records straight on avoiding errors that at the long run
affects development is therefore primary, with experts saying that
learning from the experiences of each others, especially Cameroon that
was the first to apply the concept in 2013, could do well to member
countries.
Minister Elung Paul Che said the Yaounde confab was expected to end
with a platform for comparing and evaluating advancements in the finance
management reform between member countries. “There is need to harmonise
experiences,” the Minister said. His views were concurred by FoHBAC’s
Vice President, Colette Mata Ngosenganya and the Resident Representative
of the International Monetary Fund to Cameroon, Kadima Kalonji.
Public financial management systems that focus on transparency,
accountability and harmonisation with regional directives, are essential
for the efficient programming and execution of budgets as well as for
economic development, delegates to the forum agree. Experts will for
four days discuss the responsibilities of stakeholders in the budgetary
chain, pluriannual instruments on the preparation of budgets and methods
of drawing up performance-based designs. Others are cases studies from
CEMAC countries. Curtains to the forum will drop on Saturday May 28,
2016.
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