Past Events

The BCOP Executive Committee (which has representatives from 9 member countries) attended the OECD Senior Budget Officials' regional network for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European Countries (CESEE SBO), in Paris, France on July 6-7,…

On June 22-23, 2017 the Budget Literacy and Transparency Working Group, representing a group of up to 15 countries in the Europe and Central Asia region, held discussions in Moscow, Russia on budget literacy, transparency and public…

BCOP held its annual plenary meeting where all its 21 member countries were invited to Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic from April 12-14,2017.  The key objectives of the meeting on 'tools for fiscal management' was to share PEMPAL and…

This event brought together members of the Working Group (WG) for Program and Performance Budgeting. The WG is comprised of 15 PEMPAL member countries and was established by the PEMPAL Budget Community or Practice (BCOP) under its Action Plan for…

This videoconference meeting is bringing together members of the Working Group (WG) on Budget Literacy and Transparency.  This WG is comprised of up to 15 member countries in PEMPAL, established by PEMPAL Budget Community of…

The Budget Community of Practice (BCOP) of PEMPAL participating in the OECD Performance Budgeting survey to collect baseline information for the new PEMPAL Working Group on Performance and Program Budgeting, which have been recently established…

BCOP Working Group on Wage Bill Management organized a study visit to review lessons from Slovenia public sector pay reforms and wage bill management practices. The visit provided a unique opportunity to hear details about Slovenian reforms and…

The annual Plenary Meeting of the Budget Community of Practice took place in Minsk, Belarus from February 24 to February 26, 2016. Based on feedback from the Budget Community of Practice members and the Executive Committee, this next Plenary…

On December 1-4, 2015, the Budget Community of Practice (BCOP) undertook a learning visit to Zagreb and Rijeka, Croatia.  The meeting was organized under BCOP’s Working Group on Budget Transparency and Literacy and was attended by eleven…

The objective of the meeting was to review and discuss Croatia approaches to wage bill management. The agenda of the event comprised two presentation. The first presentation covered centralized payroll accounting and human resource management system…

The objective of the meeting was for participants to familiarize themselves with the findings of a recent global study of budget literacy practices covering over 30 countries undertaken by the World Bank. Fourteen participants attended the…

The main goal of the meeting was to assess whether the PEMPAL Strategy 2012-17 is being effectively implemented, and to identify any issues or adjustments required in light of implementation experience in the past two and a half years. The main…

BCOP held a workshop on budget literacy on May 20 in Warsaw, Poland which was attended by 10 Europe and Central Asia PEMPAL member countries (Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan…

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