1. Medium Term Expenditure Planning for Sustainable Development.

2. Overview: Purpose & Importance MTEF. Targets of Government Expenditure
Budget & Planning Processes
Linkages: making the link between policy, planning & budgeting.
Guidelines: where to start.
Q & A.

3. World Bank, Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions, p.128
“An MTEF is a comprehensive, government wide spending plan that links policy priorities (in planning documents such as the SDS or sector plans) to expenditure allocations in the Budget documents, within the constraints of a fiscal framework - based on macroeconomic and revenue forecasts - usually over a three year forward planning period. A good MTEF should be the result of an approach to budgeting that requires early policy prioritisation, evaluation of competing policies and programs, and a careful matching of current and medium-term plans with available funding resources, following a disciplined process.”
World Bank, Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions, p.128

4. Purpose/Importance:
It allows for strong links between Policy, Planning and Budgeting
To set a framework to encourage efficiency in the allocation of resources across Government.
Projections of the cost of implementing government policies into the future (over a 3 year period in Samoa).

5. Government Targets/Expenditure Allocations:
Limit budget deficit to 3.5% of GDP
Limit expenditures within 35% - 38% of GDP
Limit personnel costs within 40% - 45% of total expenditures
Limit debts to less than 50% of GDP
Increase NTR by 1%

6. Government Expenditure Targets: Economic; 10
Examples: Private Sector Agri/Business Project
Demographic Health Survey
Social; 5
Examples: Samoa School Fee Grant Scheme (Primary/Secondary)
Health Sector Program
Infrastructure; 1
Examples: National Broadband Highway

7. The Performance Framework template can be visualised as a hierarchy
SDS Goals
Why your ministry produces outputs
Sectoral Goals
Outcomes
Ministry Level Outcomes
Goods and Services (Outputs)
What your ministry produces

8. Policy documents, Planning documents and the Budget Formulation
Linkages:
Policy documents, Planning documents and the Budget Formulation
Performance
Framework
National Plans/SDS
Budget
Document
Corporate
Plans
Sector Plans

9. Linkages: Where to Start?. National Plans/SDS Performance Framework
Sector Plans
Corporate
Plans

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