Table 1: Areas of Improvement Prioritized by the PEMPAL Executive SC – Steering Committee; RT – COP Resource Teams; COP ExCom – COP Executive Committees; PEMPAL Exec – SC and COP ExCom Hierarchy of Strategy Objectives Responsibility Timeframe Strategy Goal/Impact: PEMPAL member Governments from Europe and Central Asia more efficiently and effectively use public monies resulting from applying new PFM practices A more systematic and standardized approach to collecting success stories will be established in the future. Results will be measured on various dimensions (eg success stories, figures, examples, survey results, ‘value detectives’ method. Benefits will be captured at both the individual and institutional levels including how one leads to the other, if feasible.) Secretariat COP ExCom RTs High Priority: Process and methodology to be established as part of next strategy Outcome: A sustainable, professional public financial management platform through individual members are networked to strengthen their capacities and enable them to share learnings and benchmarking between countries Targeting of PEMPAL products and services towards specific PFM practice will be facilitated. Actions agreed include: continued expansion of more direct network delivery strategies such as working groups, case clinics while ensuring results from working groups are effectively monitored; and investigating approaches used by other networks. SC Medium Priority: To be considered as part of next strategy Output Objective 1: PFM priorities of member governments are addressed by the PFM network platform. COP action plans will be more comprehensively presented to the SC for approval, as recommended by donors. A more systematic approach to identifying cross-COP projects will be applied before the end of the strategy period, Action plans will include envisaged cross-COP activities, projects and exchanges. Government PFM reform priorities will be more formally identified within the (through PEMPAL member surveys). A uniform detailed Annual Action Plan for COPs will be designed and adopted. COP Chairs Deputy Chairs High Priority for first action (dot point 1): To be adopted for FY17 plans in 2016. Other actions will be implemented for the next strategy period. SC meetings will be used more effectively for exchanges, with COPs playing a more active role (through providing more informative reports as recommended by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation). COPs to submit reports on implementation of adopted Action Plans to the SC. (Updates on progress of implementation of plans to include COP ExCom High Priority: From Quarter 4, 2015 SC meeting. An item will be added to all future Steering Committee meeting agendas
Table 5: Schedule of 2014 Events by COP, Meeting Format and Location Note: * COP Plenary (A); Small group meeting (B); Study visit (C); Video Conference: (VC), F-t-F – face-to-face meeting Jan Feb Mar May Jun Jul Sep Oct Nov Dec BCOP Austria (C) (VC) Turkey (A) Russian Federation (B) The Netherlands (B+B) (VC) Estonia (C) – type B Slovenia (C) IACOP South Africa (C) Montenegro (B+B) Russian Federation (B) Hungary (C) Kazakhstan (B) Romania (A+B) TCOP Georgia (A) Russian Federation (A) (VC) (VC) (VC) (VC) (VC) Belarus (B) (VC) Montenegro (B) (VC) (VC) (VC) Russian Federation (A) Steering Com (VC) Russian Federation (F-t-F) (VC)