Round TableDonors Experience with PEFA Assessments in Latin America

Workshop PEFA in Latin America: Seven Years of Implementation

Brussels, 4th December 2012

Chairperson: Jose Correia Nunes - EUROPEAID - UNIT A2: Budget Support, Public Finance and Macroeconomic Analysis

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Panelists

Mrs Falkner-Olmedo – Inter-American Development Bank – Chief of the Operations Financial Management and Procurement Services Office

Mr Balakrishnan – World Bank – Latin America and Caribbean Manager at Financial Management Sector

Mr Pessoa - IMF – Deputy Division Chief at the PFM Division of the Fiscal Affairs Department.

Mr Salinas – EuropeAid – Coordinator Budget Support Operations at Latin America and Caribbean Directorate

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Discussions of this round table will cover two topics

Development partners' experience from PEFA assessments to PFM reforms.

How the experience on PEFA repeat assessments has been used to measure progress and support PFM reforms?

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12 countries in LAC region have seen changes in CPIA ratings for PFM for the period 2001-2011.

Source: World Bank

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Out of 75 PEFA assessments in the region since 2006 the EU has been involved in 40 assessments

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CountryContributing agencies Status

Date on the cover of report/Planned for completion Country

Contributing agencies Status

Date on the cover of report/Planned for completion

Anguilla (UK) Final Sep-08 JamaicaIDB, WB, DFID, IMF Planned/Ongoing 2012

Aruba (Neth)   Final Oct-08 Jamaica WB, DFID Public May-07

Barbados Draft Oct-06 Montserrat (UK) DFID Final Sep-08

Barbados IDB Final Oct-10 Paraguay IDB, WB Public Dec-11

Belize IDB, WB Final Jan-09 Peru WB, IDB Public Apr-09

Dominica   Final Apr-07 Peru – Chiclayo MunicipalitySECO, WB, IDB Draft Sep-12

Dominica Final Jun-10Peru – Gobierno Regional Amazonas

SECO, WB, IDB Draft Sep-12

Dominican Republic   Draft Sep-12 St. Kitts & Nevis   Final Apr-07

Dominican Republic WB Public Nov-07 St. Kitts & Nevis Final Dec-09

Dominican Republic   Public Nov-10 St. Lucia   Final Oct-06

Ecuador WB Draft Mar-10 St. Lucia Final Feb-10

El Salvador WB, IDB Public May-09 St. Vincent and Grenadines   Final Sep-06

Grenada Final Sep-06 Trinidad and Tobago Final Jun-06

Grenada   Public Mar-10 Trinidad and Tobago   Public Dec-08

Haiti Public Jan-12 Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) Draft Feb-12

Honduras WB, IDB Public Apr-09 Uruguay IDB, WB Draft Aug-11

EU heavily involved in supporting PFM reforms in the region

Country Focus of support

Bolivia Expenditure Management

Colombia (pipeline) Fight against corruption

Costa Rica Civil society oversight of the budget

Dominican Republic Public procurement

Ecuador Information Management Systems

El Salvador Fiscal Management

Guatemala Budget Management

Honduras Budget Management

Nicaragua (pipeline) Tax reforms

Paraguay Tax reforms

Peru Support to reform programme6