Live Online Learning: Using Performance Information to Inform Budget Decisions

The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank is holding its annual evaluation week starting today in Washington, D.C., USA. Below are livestream links for you to follow Tuesday and Wednesday events live:

Achieving Better Development Results. The Use of Performance Information and Evaluation Findings to Inform Public Budget Decisions. Tuesday Oct. 25 - Wednesday, Oct. 26.

Webstreaming of this event is available at the following links:

Tuesday Oct. 25

Tuesday morning (9:30-13:00, EST): http://www.livestream.com/independentevaluationgroup
Tuesday afternoon (14:00 pm-16:00 pm EST): http://www.livestream.com/independentevaluationgroup

Wednesday Oct. 26

Wednesday morning (9:30-12:00 EST): http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/EvaluationWeek/stream_ach_dev_res10_26_PM.html
Wednesday afternoon (13:00-16:00 EST): http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/EvaluationWeek/stream_ach_dev_res10_26_PM.html

Full Evaluation Week Agenda please click here. For more information, please visit http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/EvaluationWeek.

For a full list of sessions and events available via webstreaming please click on this link: http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/EvaluationWeek/webcasts.html

Country Systems for Monitoring and Evaluating Results: A Cross-case Analysis and Implications for Governments and the Bank

Monday, Oct. 24.
1850 I (Eye) St., NW, Washington, D.C., Room I 2-250 (Eye Building)

Morning Session - 9:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) provides useful information to governments, assessing how current programs are functioning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to decisions regarding budget allocations. M& E systems are an essential mechanism for transparency and the accountability of governments to parliament/congress, to civil society, and to citizens. These systems are becoming increasingly important in light of the Bank’s approach to funding based on results through the performance-for-results (P4R) instrument.

This session will focus on a presentation of case studies followed by a Q&A discussion. Through a series of case studies of OECD and developing countries, the presentations will examine the evolution and role of countries’ M&E systems in influencing program and policy design and budgeting decisions. The presentations will focus on country systems’ design and operating environment. The session will present cross-case analyses, highlighting critical structural and capacity differences and commonalities, identifying common challenges, and highlighting lessons learned. The session will conclude with a discussion of implications for the Bank’s approach to supporting evaluation capacity, especially in the context of P4R.

Presenters:
Manuel Fernando Castro, Consultant, IEG
Nidhi Khattri, Senior Evaluation Officer, IEG
Ximena Fernandez Ordoñez, Evaluation Officer, IEG

Discussant:
Grant Cameron, Manager, International Statistical Programs,
Development Economics Data Group
Fadia Sadah, Manager, Investment Lending Unit, OPCIL

Moderator:
Daniela Gressani, Senior Advisor and Deputy to Director-General, IEG

Achieving Better Development Results: The use of Performance Information and Evaluation Findings to Inform Public Budget Decisions

Tuesday Oct. 25 & Wednesday, Oct. 26.
701 18th Street, NW, Washington, D.C., Room JB1-080

Morning Session - 9:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The aim of informing budgets with performance information is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public expenditure by linking the funding of public sector organizations to the results they deliver. This process, called Performance-Based Budgeting (PBB), uses systematic performance information such as monitoring indicators, evaluation findings, program costing, and other tools to make this link. The result of performance budgeting is in improved prioritization of public expenditures and improved program effectiveness and efficiency. PBB also emphasizes giving government agencies greater flexibility in the use of resources than they would typically have under traditional tightly-controlled public management systems. It also promotes accountability.

International interest in PBB has been prompted by the recognition that it is too easy in Government to lose sight of the fundamental objective of delivering positive outcomes to the community. Increasingly, countries are considering the links between M&E, budgeting, and planning. Thus, PBB is a tool for holding public agencies to account for results, by making key funding decisions on the basis of results achieved.

Instructor:
Marc Robinson

Course Objectives

To equip course participants to understand:

• The role of PBB in the broader public reform agenda
• Key concepts related to PBB and M&E
• Prerequisites and implications of the design and implementation of budget and
performance information reforms
• The links between evaluation, performance monitoring and Budgeting
• Program budgeting classifications, targets, costing, and appropriation and control

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