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Learn the importance of managing public expenditure over time and sectors for effective public sector reform, sector programs, and performance evaluation. Explore the case study of Morocco's approach to decentralization and civil service mobility. Discover key principles of performance budgeting and the role of multisector organization in financial management. Gain insights into leveraging knowledge and ownership in public service delivery through participatory approaches.
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ManagingPublic Expenditure Workover Timeand across Sectors Charles Humphreys PREM Learning Week 17 June 2002
Why public expenditure work? • Entry point to entire agenda of public sector reform (civil service, decentralization, service delivery, PEM, regulatory functions, security…) • Entry point for enhanced multisector organization of Bank work
Why integrate? • Public expenditure is a government-wide issue • Intersectoral competition for allocations • Expenditure management systems (nomenclature, releases, systems, reporting, auditing) • Role of center in establishing framework for performance (measurement, evaluation, accountabilities) • Public expenditures get translated into public service (“performance”) in spending departments • Design of sector programs • Day-to-day implementation, and financial management
Morocco Public Expenditure Work • Problem: excessive centralization and civil service rigidity • Approach: Joint Bank/Government working groups to define institutional reforms, delinked from financial support • Outcomes: “déconcentration” starting with Health, greater civil service mobility • Lessons: Modular approach, sustained over time, need for public sector reform and sector skills, capacity to act as integrators
Disciplining Bank public expenditure work • Starts with CAS – definition of multisector, multiyear activities (Strategy for P
Principles of performance budgeting • Unified, consolidated budget • Management by (strategic) program • Use of performance indicators, monitoring and evaluation • Multi-year perspective for both budgets and indicators • Competitive allocation between sectors • Decentralized financial management • Ex-post and performance audits
Gödel’s trap: same principle of what we do applies to what we want to be done • Public sector reforms that the PER is supporting are themselves based on the idea that the administration works best when it finds ways to leverage ownership and knowledge in the delivery of public services. • PS reforms in Morocco: (i)decentralization of decisions to leverage local knowledge and ownership; and (ii) performance-based management to use information on impact as the key to the system
