Improving the Quality of Public Expenditure in the Dominican Republic
This book addresses the achievements, challenges, and opportunities to improve the quality of public spending. Steps to make such changes have come through monitoring and evaluation approaches that can be replicated or expanded; sectoral efforts to...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/598441468299941629/Improving-the-quality-of-public-expenditure-in-the-Dominican-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27801 |
| Summary: | This book addresses the achievements,
challenges, and opportunities to improve the quality of
public spending. Steps to make such changes have come
through monitoring and evaluation approaches that can be
replicated or expanded; sectoral efforts to improve the
performance of priority programs; Congress's use of
information on the results of public spending; the
implementation of performance budgeting at subnational
levels; and the harmonization of accounting between the
three levels of the federal government. All these aspects
are key elements of comprehensive reform. Currently, as the
book states, accountability focuses on achieving results
rather than on centering attention on mere compliance with
rules and procedures. In this context, based on a new legal
framework, the government of Mexico has decisively promoted
results-based management and budgeting. The Performance
Evaluation System (SED) was finally established in 2008 with
the institution of the principles, concepts, methodologies,
guidelines, procedures, and systems that support its
operation. Its adoption as a common practice in the Federal
Public Administration (APF) process will require a gradual,
progressive, systematic learning and continuous improvement
that should allow performance evaluation to take root in the
APF. This calls for consolidating the Results-Based
Budgeting (RBB)-SED in all agencies, expanding its use and
improving the quality of the information that feeds it.
However, not just the APF benefit will from the
implementation of the RBB-SED. As the publication suggests,
the approach to an expenditure budget based on performance
information offers Congress great opportunities to enhance
its regulatory and supervisory functions. The improvement in
the quality of Matrices de Indicadores para Resultados
(MIRs), program evaluations, and their integration into the
budgetary programming cycle also contributes to this purpose. |
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