1. Improving Budgetary Outcomes
July 6, 2000

2. SOUND BUDGETING 1. Sound fiscal policy/discipline
2. Resources allocated to strategic priorities
Predictable
funding
Predictable policy
3. High quality services delivered at least cost

3. Supporting and Demanding Performance
Credible Credible Demanding
Budget Rules Performance
3. High quality services delivered at
least cost

4. Some Principles Transparency and accountability
Comprehensiveness of budget
Predictability of resources & policies
Flexibility
Contestability
Existence and sharing of information

5. Fragmentation/Lack of Comprehensiveness
Across:
Policy Making, Planning, Budgeting
Fiscal activities
Types of expenditure
Sources of funds
Time
Inputs, outputs and outcomes

6. POINTS OF INTERVENTION
Influencing Policy
Monitoring implementation/service delivery
Assessing whether institutional arrangements require that
poverty analysis be central to decision making
New policy
Review of ongoing policy
Demanding a credible budget

7. Enabling Environment for Public Sector
Link Policy, Planning, Budgeting
Restrain decision making:
affordability
cost, expected results
evaluate
Forum within which policies compete
Capacity and willingness to reprioritize and reallocate.

8. A Contract for Performance
The Center
More predictable funding
More predictable policy
Rules and practices that support and demand efficient resource use
Leave management decisions to line managers

9. A Contract for Performance
The Line
Living within budget
Clear sector strategies
Using resources efficiently and effectively
Reporting on resource use