Past Events

BCOP Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group attended IACOP virtual event on Impact on Program and Performance Budgeting Reforms on the Public Internal Control. BCOP Resource Team delivered the presentation on Program and Performance…

This VC workshop is taking place to examine a new topic of interest for BCOP members: budgeting for baseline expenditures. This topic was given top priority by the BCOP members and complements the core areas of budgeting covered by the two working…

The BCOP Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PBBWG) continues its cooperation with the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). Within this cooperation, BCOP’s Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group for the…

BCOP’s Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG) focuses on ways to improve budget literacy, openness, and access to citizens, as well as public participation in the budget process. According to the current BCOP's Action Plan, the…

  Within BCOP’s longstanding cooperation with the OECD, participants from the BCOP countries were invited by the OECD to attend the 16th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials' regional Network for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern…

The 2021 Annual Plenary meeting of the PEMPAL Budget Community of Practice (BCOP) took place via videoconference on March 19-20, 2021 with all of the BCOP 21 member countries being invited to participate.   This 2021 plenary meeting …

BCOP operates two working groups - the Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PPBWG) and the Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG). The BLTWG, active since 2015 and comprising of 18 BCOP countries, studies…

Tatiana Vinogradova, the BCOP Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG) thematic consultant, presented the BLTWG’s experience and recommendations on how to facilitate participatory budgeting in PEMPAL countries at the international…

The BCOP Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PBBWG) continues its cooperation with the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). Within this cooperation, PPBWG for the fifth time participated in the meeting of the…

BCOP’s Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG) focuses on studying international experiences in budget literacy, openness, and access to citizens, as well as public participation and engagement in the budget process, with the aim of…

BCOP’s Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PPBWG) focuses on design and implementation of program and performance budgeting and spending reviews with the aim of improving spending effectiveness. Reforms in this area have been…

The objective of the webinar was to present a pilot assessment conducted by the International Budget Partnership’ in collaboration with civil society on budget transparency in health and education sectors, as part of the Open Budget Survey 2019.…

This thematic meeting was part of the series of meetings with the Swiss authorities for PEMPAL COPs, organized with the help of PEMPAL donor partners from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). While PEMPAL countries exchange…

BCOP’s Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PPBWG) focuses on design and implementation of program and performance budgeting and spending reviews with the aim of improving spending effectiveness. Reforms in this area have been…