In recent years, the
Government has undertaken a vast public finance management reform with the
implementation of the WAEMU harmonized public finance management framework. In
this context, it continued to implement the 2018-2020 Public Finance Reform Master Plan,
which shifted in 2020 to
budgeting program.
The budgeting program is the
new methodology for preparing
and executing the budget resulting from the implementation of the public
finance management reform. In
addition to taking into account the multi-annual budget, the budget is
now prepared and
executed by programs, using
performance indicators that are subject to regular evaluation.
The switchover to budgeting program mode resulted
in the introduction of
a new legal and regulatory framework and new management tools, capacity
building for budgetary stakeholders (e.i: Program managers, parliamentarians,
members of the Government, Presidents of institutions and auditors) as well as the implementation
of an innovative adapted budgetary information system.
Therefore, the Government as part of the budget operations automation has
set up the Integrated Management
System for State Budgetary Operations (SIGOBE). From March 28 to April
1, 2022, a seminar was held at the NSAH Hotel in Grand-Bassam to review Year-1 SIGOBE operations.
By 2021, additional features testing
(Ivorian diplomatic missions abroad, National Public Entities, decentralized
territorial units) were
put in place. Since 2022, a testing phase is
currently ongoing before these additional modules get implemented by
stakeholders.
In addition to the development of SIGOBE's additional features, the development
of the E-suppliers module, which should allow the State's suppliers and economic operators to monitor the status of
their invoices has also been completed.
Features testing and
implementation of this module is also scheduled to begin in FY 2022.
Furthermore,
a performance conference will be held every year starting in 2022, prior to the
preparation of the Multi-Year Economic Budgeting Program Document (MEBPD) and
the notification of portions for the budget conferences.
Indeed, the
accountability process that results in the production of the Annual Performance
Report requires the implementation of a framework for consultation between the
various budgetary stakeholders to ensure consistency between the performance
frameworks and the strategy documents that impact the preparation of the
Multi-year Expenditure Programming Document - Annual Performance Projects
(MEPD-APP).
Finally, the
Citizen Budget, a mass communication tool aimed at fostering citizens'
ownership of Government’s actions, will contribute to improving public policies
and fostering fiscal civic-mindedness, was first introduced on April 3rd,
2019. It is currently in its fourth edition and is being widely spread among
the populations through various channels of communication (web communication, media
communications, informational and awareness campaigns on a large domestic level).