Financial Management: CEMAC experts share experience

The sixth annual meeting of senior budget officials of the Sub-region is underway in Yaounde.

Senior budget officials from the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, CEMAC, ( Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo and Chad ) and Burundi are sharing notes in Yaounde on the proper management of public finances, with emphasis on the application of programme budgetting.

The high level meeting of the International Monetary Fund's Regional Technical Assistance Centre for Central Africa (AFRITAC Central) Member Countries (FoHBAC) opened yesterday, May 25, 2016, with the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Finance, Elung Paul Che, chairing.

The forum, which is sixth, hinges on; "Transparency and performance in the drafting of Appropriation Bills." Delegates to the get-together stressed that the second-generation reforms on the proper conception, implementation and monitoring of public finances (the budget) comes in the wake of the transition by countries of the economic bloc to programme budgeting.

Setting records straight on avoiding errors that at the long run affects development is therefore primary, with experts saying that learning from the experiences of each others, especially Cameroon that was the first to apply the concept in 2013, could do well to member countries.