Public workers trained in performance budgeting

He said the training would improve macro-fiscal outcomes of the organisations and maintain fiscal sustainability as far as government income and expenditure was concerned.

He underscored the need for development to be result driven.

“In the past, planning for projects has not been in sync with budgetary allocations so we find that we are not getting projects in line with our medium term development agenda,” he said.

He was hopeful the programme,  a World Bank sponsored initiative, would begin a change.

The facilitator for the programme, Dr Mark Robinson, said government budget comprised the allocation and the use of 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.

The Acting Dean of Business School, GIMPA, Professor Sam Adams, 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 well informed than they came.

Story: Justice Baidoo