Publications

Looking back at the past year offers excitement and satisfactions. Not only that PEMPAL saw yet another increase in the number of its activities in comparison to preceding years, the year of 2014 was also marked by the biggest ever plenary of the whole PEMPAL network, and by the enlargement of the network’s membership.6 The former demonstrated engagement and dedication of the COPs’ members, whereas the latter demonstrated the increasing interest PEMPAL is generating among other countries of the region.
Through active participation of public finance professionals from up to 23 PEMPAL member countries, COPs addressed a number of different topics relevant for the advancement of public financial management systems and management of public funds in PEMPAL member countries. 

In 2014, PEMPAL thus brought together 664 PEMPAL participants and 135 international experts at 17 face-to-face events taking place in 13 different countries. The year of 2014 was also an important milestone for PEMPAL in terms of employing modern technologies for reaching out to its network members. Through eight videoconferences, significantly reducing the costs of organization and event administration, PEMPAL brought together an additional 167 PEMPAL participants and 25 international experts.

In 2014, COPs increasingly continued organizing back-to-back events (e.g. smaller working group meetings either before or after a plenary meeting of all members), which resulted in strengthening the benefits of bringing PEMPAL participants together. The following events in 2014 had sub-events: IACOP Budva, Moscow plenary, BCOP the Hague, IACOP Astana, and IACOP Bucharest. With taking into account sub-events into the overall statistics, the total number of events in 2014 reaches 27 and total number of PEMPAL participants in 2014 climbs up to 8317. It comprises participants of videoconferences, as well as those who took part in study visits, plenaries and small group meetings. 

In comparison, PEMPAL brought together 600 participants plus 241 international experts joining 26 events in 2013.