State spending for the 2021-2023 period is at the center of the Enlarged Budget Programming and Associated Performance Conferences (CEPB-PA), officially launched this Monday, August 17, 2020 in Yaoundé. The launch ceremony was co-chaired by the Ministers of the Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, and of Finance, Louis-Paul Motaze.
It is for public administrations to “refine their expenditure forecasts over the period indicated above. This is done through the review of the Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks of constitutional bodies and ministerial departments. Concretely, the CEPB-PA are meetings during which are examined for each Administration / Institution, the achievements of the last three years and the projections for the next three years of performance and budgetary programming ”, informs the daily Le Messager in its edition of August 18, 2020.
These Conference ends on August 24, 2020, “with the expected results that each administration has a quality medium-term expenditure framework, accompanied by clear performance measurement elements and useful additional documents”, specifies the Minister. newspaper.
According to the Minister of the Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, “Cameroon has chosen strategic planning based on results-based management to conduct its public policies. At the heart of this process is the three-year programming of medium-term expenditure frameworks which allow administrations, on the basis of a rational process, to identify projects in line with public policies, to determine their costs, to to choose the priorities and to include them in the framework of medium-term expenditure.”
As a reminder, the CEPB-PA are being held this year in a context marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, whose effects on the economy, and other macroeconomic factors, led to the adoption by Parliament of a collective budget, June 3, 2020. Reducing the budget resource forecasts from 4,951 to 4,409 billion FCFA, and subsequently, to a readjustment of government spending for fiscal year 2020.
