Past Events

This virtual workshop of BCOP’s Program and Performance Budgeting Working Group (PPBWG) was organized on June 21, 2023, with the aim to provide introductory presentations and to collect members’ feedback on their specific areas of interest within…

On June 13-15, 2023, PEMPAL Internal Audit Community of Practice (IACOP) with the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Albania will hold Central Harmonization Unit Challenges Working Group (CHU WG) and Audit in Practice Working Group (AiP WG) meetings…

On May 23-26, 2023, PEMPAL Treasury Community of Practice (TCOP) held an annual plenary meeting in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main objective of the TCOP plenary meeting in Almaty was to deepen the understanding of the latest trends in evolution of the…

The Budget Community of Practice (BCOP) of the Public Expenditure Management Peer-Assisted Learning network (PEMPAL) with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia held an annual BCOP Plenary meeting in Ljubljana.During the meeting, BCOP…

The objectives of this virtual event was twofold: (i) to present preliminary results of the 2022 Survey on the Functions of the Treasuries in PEMPAL Countries; and (2) to hear participants’ comments and feedback on the findings of the survey and…

BCOP continued its long-standing cooperation with the Budgeting and Public Expenditure Division of the Directorate for Public Governance within the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD). Within this cooperation, a small BCOP…

This virtual workshop was organized to familiarize BCOP members with the recent international experience and advice in the role of Ministries of Finance in climate actions and to collect BCOP members’ feedback on the on their interest in a potential…

The Central Harmonization Unit Challenges Working Group (CHU Challenges WG) will meet on 14 December, at 13.00 Vienna time to discuss introducing internal audit (IA) committees in the public sector and consider their relevance and added value. The…

On November 24, 2022, an online seminar on the topic "Development of public sector internal audit system in the Republic of Uzbekistan" was held with the participation of foreign experts of Internal Audit Community (IACOP) Public Expenditure…

TCOP Thematic Group on the Evolution of the Role and Functions of the Treasury held its meeting on November 10, 2022. During the session the representatives of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Albania shared…

Within BCOP’s long-standing cooperation with the OECD, some BCOP representatives were invited by the OECD to attend the 17th annual meeting of the OECD Senior Budget Officials' regional network for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European…

The Internal Audit Community of Practice (IACOP) of the Public Expenditure Management Peer-Assisted Learning network (PEMPAL) with the Belgium Institute of Internal auditors (Belgium IIA) will hold an IACOP Plenary meeting on October 4-5, 2022, in…

The Joint videoconference of the PEMPAL TCOP Cash Management Thematic Group and the World Bank’s Public Expenditure and Financial Management Community of Practice (PEFM CoP) took place on September 28, 2022.The objective of the session was to…

To be effective, internal auditors are expected to provide assurance and deliver added value to their stakeholders.  This is easy to say but much harder to do:First, stakeholders and auditors may have different expectations of the added value…

TCOP Thematic Group on the Evolution of the Role and Functions of the Treasury will hold its next meeting on March 17, 2022. During the session the representatives of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Albania will…