1. Program Budgeting and Marginal Analysis
BCFHPS 2011
October 3, 2011

2. Context
‘Challenging’ gap between funding available and funding necessary
No appetite for across the board cuts
Widespread feeling that ‘we are at the bone’ in terms of potential efficiency gains

3. First step Advisory Panel Pooling of expertise
Based on existing structures

4. Second step Criteria At the heart of the process
Provide the formal linkage between strategy and decision-making

5. Third step Process guidelines Sequencing of events
Description of roles and responsibilities

6. Fourth step Proposals development
Investment and disinvestment proposals
Must be ‘implementable’
Impacts are from a ‘system’ perspective

7. Fifth step Proposals evaluation Starting point is proposal
Validation of information on expected impacts

8. Sixth step Resource allocation recommendations
First task, bridging any budgetary gap
Second, marginal analysis

9. Last step Appeal process and decision making Fairness considerations
Feedback between decisions and recommendations