Past Events

Meeting Topic: Public Participation:  Completion of the draft BLTWG knowledge product; and latest information by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT).   Meeting…

The BCOP met by videoconference on 9 April 2020 to examine and exchange experiences on the approaches, challenges, and advice on budget-related responses to the COVID-19 emergency among BCOP member countries and based on the international…

The two-day BCOP event took place on November 5-6, 2019 was for the first time in a joint workshop that brought together the two BCOP working groups - Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG) and Program and Performance Budgeting…

Participants from the BCOP countries represented in the BCOP Executive Committee attend the 15th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials' regional Network for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries (CESEE SBO) in Minsk…

Budget Transparency and Literacy Working Group (BLTWG), operating in BCOP since 2015, will met by videoconference on May 22nd, 2019. The main objectives of the meeting were: to follow-up and advance the discussions on public…

BCOP held its annual plenary meeting where all its 21 member countries were invited in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on March 18-21, 2019.   The key objectives of the meeting were to:  provide the opportunity for BCOP member countries…

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 fourth time participated in the meeting of the…

The BCOP Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG), which comprises of members from 16 BCOP countries, held an event co-designed and co-organized with the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) in Cascais, Portugal. The first…

At the invitation of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, a small delegation of the BCOP Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group (BLTWG) attended the 2018 Moscow Financial Forum, including the international conference on…

The BCOP Executive Committee members from 8 BCOP countries attended the 14th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials' regional network for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries (CESEE SBO) in Zagreb, May 24-25, 2018. These…

BCOP held its 2018 annual plenary meeting in Vienna on March 14-16, at which all of BCOP 21 member countries were invited. Plenary meeting topic was IMPROVING EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES: Trends in…

The Performance Budgeting Working Group held a one-day workshop examine performance budgeting in Austria with the Austrian Ministry of Finance and the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Austria has undergone through performance budgeting reforms and…

The BCOP Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PBBWG) includes members from 15 countries (Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgyz R, Moldova, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey,…

On October 27, 2017 PEMPAL Working Group on Budget Transparency and Literacy, operated under Budget COP met by videoconference to discuss next steps including identifying PEMPAL country cases to be collected for inclusion in the planned knowledge…

This videoconference meeting brought together members of the Working Group (WG) on Program and Performance Budgeting. This VC meeting was held to review and discuss performance indicators, countries use to track performance under…