Closing of the 8th Edition of the Forum of Senior Budget Officials of Afritac centre Member States (FOHBAC)

Participants adopted a roadmap for implementing gender-sensitive budgeting
15 Mar, 2019

The Brazzaville Forum, which opened on Monday 11, ended on Friday 15 March 2019. Participants adopted a three-fold roadmap for the period 2019-2023, and appointed, for a two-year term, the new president of FOHBAC. It is the Congolese Nicolas Okandzi, Director General of Budget, represented by Théodor Assounga, his Director of Balance, who closed the work. 

 

The three axes of the Brazzaville meeting which was placed under the theme “Inequality-sensitive budgeting: the case of gender”, relate, first, to the implementation of the steering and legal framework of gender-sensitive budgeting. Then, to experimentation of pilot ministries, and finally to the generalization of public finance reform.

Participants agreed to draw up programme-mode budgets in their respective States, from 2023. “According to the deadlines set by the Central African Economic and Monetary           Community (CEMAC) in the harmonized framework directives, from January 2022, all countries in the zone must switch to programme mode” Théodor Assounga said, and wished the partnership between FOHBAC and UN-Women, a long life, of which the deputy representative of the Bureau, Hind Jalal, recalled the watch words that define the gender-sensitive budgeting, namely: targeting and proximity; innovative public management and public policy assessment.   

After Congo, the 9thannual edition of the rotating FOHBAC, will be held in Säo-Tomé and Principe in 2020. 

 

The Press office of the Ministry of Finance

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