Doug Hadden, VP Products
We participated in the 27th. Annual International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) conference last week in Miami. There was about 275 participants from over 45 countries during the 5 day event. This is the premier global event to learn about Public Financial Management (PFM) trends and good practices. We continued our mandate of sharing these good practices through tweeting and currating those tweets. We also conducted a survey at our booth and used polling devices to answer a series of questions about the state of PFM reform, the quality of technical assistance and satisfication with government Financial Management Information Systems (FMIS) – that we prefer to call Government Resource Planning (GRP). We used a number of similar questions across the two mechanisms and have posted our results below. Some conclusions from the survey and poll:
- General view that PFM reform is on-track in developing countries but there has been a slow-down
- Satisfaction with technical assistance is good but there is a lack of consistency in advice from donors
- There is a growing recognition that “best practices” should be avoided and there are more important factors to PFM reform sustainability than legal reform
- Satisfaction with FMIS systems remains fair and it is not clear whether many of the systems implemented are sustainable
We currated our tweets during sessions:
- Good Practice Lessons Learned from 27th Annual ICGFM Conference [summary]
- Change Management and PFM Reform
- Case Studies: PFM Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
- PFM Reforms In Georgia After the Global Crisis
- Performance Management in the Public Sector—Country Case Studies and Recent Innovations
- Introduction to Risk Management in Government
- Lessons Learned: Successful Examples of Fiscal Adjustment
- Increasing Budget Transparency at the Sub-National Level
- Open Government as an Efficient and Effective Public Financial Management Framework
- Sustaining Public Finance and Economic Reforms in Malawi
- The Supreme Audit Institutions Performance Measurement Framework
- Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness; Anti-Corruption; and, International Audit Standards
- The Revised COSO Internal Control Framework
- ICGFM Workshop on PFM Trends (for the ICGFM Report)
- Thinking Outside the Box: Thoughts of Moving Beyond the Traditional Budget
- IPSAS Compilation and Certification Program for Developing Countries