OECD Conference Centre

Paris

 

 

The Special Session of the MENA-OECD Senior Budget Officials on "Budget Transparency" was held on 7 March 2012 in Paris.

 

The meeting, organised back to back with the 12th annual OECD Public Sector Accruals Symposium, was chaired by Mark Reger, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury.

 

 

Agenda

 

Session 1

Lead presentation by Jón Ragnar Blöndal, Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, OECD (GOV), on the OECD Best Practices for Budget Transparency.

 

Session 2

Presentation by Martin Forst, Head of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, OECD (GOV), on economic governance and transparency.

 

Report of the meeting

 

List of participants

 

Reference documents:

• A Citizen Guide to the Budget (English), Katarina Ott
• Guide to Transparency in Government Budget Reports (English), International Budget Partnership
• IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency, 2007 (English), International Monetary Fund
• The Open Budget Survey 2010 (English), International Budget Partnership
• The Open Budget Survey 2010 (French: Enquête sur le budget ouvert 2010), International Budget Partnership
• The Open Budget Survey 2010 (Arabic), International Budget Partnership

 

 

 

Related Documents

 

Regional Senior Budget Officials network for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)