1. Linking Policy, Planning, and Budgeting
Breakout Session 2:
“Linking PRS and Budget Reporting for Results”
Philipp Krause (GTZ)
Third International Roundtable, Managing for Development Results
Hanoi, Vietnam - February

2. Background: The Merger of Three Debates
PRS Review: How to strengthen PRSP-implementation, make it sustainable, balance internal and external accountabilities
PFM Reforms: How to improve PFM-system performance, especially in the context of program-based and budget support, new diagnostic tools and reform approaches
Public Sector Reform: How to build results-orientation in the public sector, enhance quality and efficiency of service delivery, link management to the budget

3. 2 Key Questions
What challenges have arisen in countries where efforts have been made to integrate the PRS with the budget?
What are the lessons of this experience and the potential entry points for actions to strengthen these links?

4. The Long Shadow of the Past: Fragmentation of the Policy-Cycle
Sector
Strategies
PRSP
Budget
Formulation
Budget
Execution
Other Plans
and Programs
Accountability and
Control

5. Central Role of Accountability
A concept that needs unpacking:
Within the executive: staff and manager, administration and minister, minister and cabinet
Of the executive: towards legislature & audit institutions, towards civil society, towards citizens
Between government and donors

6. Looking at Very Diverse Country Cases:
Chile
Strong and capable bureaucracy
Advanced system of management control and results-orientation
Strong link between budget, policy and administration
Reforms started very simple and took 10 yrs+
Very top-down, ownership quite narrow at the outset
Malawi
Weak and informal public sector
High degree of institutional fragmentation
Ownership of PRSP very narrow
Technical reforms have a history of failure
Gov‘t improved fiscal discipline & budget credibility  first step towards better accountability?
How to bridge the gap?

7. Outline of this Session:
Vera Wilhelm: Overview and Findings
Pedro Couto: Mozambique
Tim Williamson: Uganda/Tanzania

8. Thank You!