1. Good Budgetary Governance: Transparency, Accountability and Beyond Ronnie Downes Deputy Head - Budgeting and Public Expenditures, OECD OGP – Fiscal Openness Working Group London, 2 November 2013

2. Budget reports (7 in total) – Pre-election – Long-term sustainability Specific disclosures – Non-financial assets – Contingent liabilities Integrity & accountability – Audit – Parliamentary scrutiny – Public availability on internet – Promote public understanding OECD’s starting point

3. Since 2002 … OECD Senior Budget Officials – Regional networks: LAC, CESEE, Asia; also CABRI liaison – Thematic networks: Performance & Results; PPPs; Budget Accounting (Accruals); Independent Fiscal Institutions; Health Budgeting Budget Reviews / Public Governance Reviews Restoring Public Finances, 2011, 2012 OECD Survey of Budget Practices & Procedures, 2007, 2012-13

4. Developments & Priorities in budgeting from annual to medium-term budgeting heightened focus on management of fiscal risks from inputs to outputs, performance and impacts from MoF to independent institutions greater engagement of parliament and citizens budgeting as an instrument of public governance

5. OECD Public Governance framework Fiscal rules MTEF Strategic public sector HR Strategic priorities Performance, Evaluation & VFM Participation Transparency & Openness Fiscal Risks & Sustainability Top-down Budgeting Managing complex risks Integrity & anti- corruption ICT & e-govt Strategic centre of government Delivering government objectives Quality of Regulation Budgeting & PFM Coordination across levels of government Public service innovation Citizen engagement Open procurement

6. Setting norms across OECD Country experiences OECD Networks Surveys Country reviews Studies and analysis Gathering and exchanging knowledge Good practices Pooling knowledge guidance tool flexible Recommendations & Principles “locking in” what has been learned OECD norms Governments adopt Commitment to respect

7. Elements of Good Budgetary Governance (draft) Fiscal rules MTEF Quality, Integrity & Independence Strategic priorities Performance, Evaluation & VFM Participation Transparency & Openness Fiscal Risks & Sustainability Top-down Budgeting True, full & fair budget accounting Fiscal objectives Medium- term clarity Strategic plans & priorities Performance, evaluation & VFM Transparency, openness & accessibility Participation, Inclusiveness & Realism Fiscal Risks & Sustainability Top-down budgeting

8. Some key themes & challenges? Radically new approaches to fiscal risk? – Experience has been sobering The dimensions and modalities of “participation” – Citizen v. parliamentary prerogatives – Insider-outsider risks – “free-for-all” versus realism in budgeting Performance budgeting – Holy grail, fool’s gold – or an emerging consensus? Inter-connectedness: elements are not discrete – e.g. fiscal rules  top-down  MTEF  planning & evaluation – e.g. should independent institutions (new and old) be mobilised to address various aspects of budgeting?