Monitoring Budget Implementation And Evaluation Presentation
Monitoring Budget Implementation and Evaluation
1.0 The Purpose of Planning, Budgeting and Reporting
1.1 Introduction
Tanzania’s planning, budgeting, and reporting process aim to improve Public Sector performance by:
Focusing institutions on delivery or results
Improving internal decision making
Fostering internal and external accountability
Improving the allocation of resources and ensuring their prioritisations
It is during the planning process that strategic decisions are made concerning the problems to address and means by which service delivery can be improved. This impacts crucially on the day-to-day lives of the average citizen.
1.2 The Planning Cycle and General Process
The planning process in Tanzania contains seven key steps. These include:
Situation Analysis, which is a process of critical thinking and understanding.
Strategic Plans chart an institution’s broad direction forward. It focuses on the big picture from a longer-term perspective.
Budgeting involves a projection of revenue, the costing of Strategic Plans and a costing of personnel.
Action Planning: here institutions schedule their activities for the upcoming year including – cash flow plan; detailed departmental plans; procurement and performance agreements.
Implementation. During this stage financial control and financial monitoring takes place through Government’s IFMS (Integrated Financial Management System) which enforces the budget.
Monitoring and Evaluation: internally, institutions track their progress in implementing their plans.
Reporting: within this cycle, results are communicated to management so that actions can be taken to adjust direction and improve performance. This is done for all stakeholders – the general public, politicians, regulators and other interested parties.
1.3 Levels of Planning, Monitoring and Reporting
Though different levels of plans influence each other, National and Sector Instruments should be seen to guide institutional planning, rather than vice versa.
1.0 The Purpose of Planning, Budgeting and Reporting
1.1 Introduction
Tanzania’s planning, budgeting, and reporting process aim to improve Public Sector performance by:
Focusing institutions on delivery or results
Improving internal decision making
Fostering internal and external accountability
Improving the allocation of resources and ensuring their prioritisations
It is during the planning process that strategic decisions are made concerning the problems to address and means by which service delivery can be improved. This impacts crucially on the day-to-day lives of the average citizen.
1.2 The Planning Cycle and General Process
The planning process in Tanzania contains seven key steps. These include:
Situation Analysis, which is a process of critical thinking and understanding.
Strategic Plans chart an institution’s broad direction forward. It focuses on the big picture from a longer-term perspective.
Budgeting involves a projection of revenue, the costing of Strategic Plans and a costing of personnel.
Action Planning: here institutions schedule their activities for the upcoming year including – cash flow plan; detailed departmental plans; procurement and performance agreements.
Implementation. During this stage financial control and financial monitoring takes place through Government’s IFMS (Integrated Financial Management System) which enforces the budget.
Monitoring and Evaluation: internally, institutions track their progress in implementing their plans.
Reporting: within this cycle, results are communicated to management so that actions can be taken to adjust direction and improve performance. This is done for all stakeholders – the general public, politicians, regulators and other interested parties.
1.3 Levels of Planning, Monitoring and Reporting
Though different levels of plans influence each other, National and Sector Instruments should be seen to guide institutional planning, rather than vice versa.