Past Events

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 …

The main objective of this training course is to present IT audit from A to Z. This one full day (2 days online) course will outline the concepts of information technology you need to know in order to understand the audit concerns in the IT…

The objectives of the videoconference were: (i) to get acquainted with the experience of the Treasury Committee of Kazakhstan to prepare consolidated financial statements of the republican budget; (ii) to get acquainted with the approach taken by…

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…

This Audit-in-Practice Working Group (AiP WG) SIT will provide an update on the progress achieved in advancing public sector internal audit in IACOP countries and good practices applied. It will also discuss the current challenges and plans in…

Launched in 2016, the Internal Control Working Group (ICWG) looks at the role of internal audit and the central harmonization unit (CHU) in the assessment and development of public internal control. Areas of focus include the COSO (Committee of…

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 objectives of this virtual event were twofold: To present to the members of the TCOP’s cash management thematic group the recent paper by M. Coskun Cangoz and Leandro Secunho on sound cash management practices (World Bank. 2020. “Cash…

PEMPAL TCOP has recently published its new knowledge product on optimization of the Unified Chart of Accounts Design. During this virtual event Mr. Mark Silins (PEMPAL Treasury COP Lead Thematic Advisor and the main author of the paper) and Ms…

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…

PEMPAL IACOP continues to work on the member countries’ challenges in implementing modern and effective internal audit systems. Established in 2015, Audit-in-Practice Working Group (AiPWG) addresses the practical implementation of the audit cycle…

During this virtual event representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Albania presented their new web-based Integrated Financial Management Information System (AFMIS). The presentation covered the overall architecture and core…

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…