We enjoyed talking to Vesna Cvetanova about her experience attending available learning opportunities within the multi-beneficiary capacity development project “Structural Reforms Better Integrated Within Fiscal Frameworks” (FISR2) funded by the European Union. Ms. Cvetanova, Head of the Macroeconomic Policy Department…

Deon Tanzer has been involved in the delivery of several learning events where we discussed the relationship between government finance statistics (GFS) and the fiscal cycle, while underlining the importance of timely, accurate, and comprehensive data. Deon advises compilers in various national institutions on…

Sedat Shehu, Manager of the IT Infrastructure Division at the Ministry of Finance, Labor and Transfers (MFLT), Kosovo has been participating in several CEF learning events since 2010. Just this year, he attended four on IT auditing, knowledge sharing and presentation skills, online learning methodologies and tools,…

Since 2008, Paul McClure has been regularly lecturing at the CEF workshops on communication topics. He has helped many public officials upgrade the effectiveness of their written communications in English, working with course participants from all CEF member countries and several adjoining EU member states. We…

We were pleased to talk to colleagues at the Public Revenue Office (PRO) from North Macedonia to learn about their institutional learning needs and explore opportunities to jointly advance our cooperation. We are happy to share some of their thoughts about the benefits learning with us brings to the PRO staff.

Noel Hepworth is the former Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). Since retiring, he has been supporting reform processes and advising on the development of financial management and control (FMC) in many countries across South East Europe (SEE). After realizing that…

We were happy to talk to Ms. Irnesa Hašimbegović from the Tax Administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ms. Hašimbegović shared her personal learning takeaways from our recent hybrid event that explored how to plan and conduct tax audits by using indirect audit methods.

As the project "Strengthening Line Ministries’ Capacities to Assess Fiscal Implications of Structural Reforms (FISR)" successfully came to an end, we are happy to share joint reflections by Vasyl Zubaka from the European Commission and Natasha Ilijeva Acevska from the CEF on the FISR project milestones.

Davor Kozina, Head of Service for Coordination of Internal Control System Development at the Croatian Ministry of finance, shares his impressions and main learning takeaways from the recent workshop that looked into the practical implementation of risk management in the public sector.

We are honored to have been partnering with the European Central Bank (ECB) for a number of years to jointly advance our Learning and Knowledge Sharing Program for Central Banks and Financial Supervisory Authorities in South East Europe (SEE). We were happy to talk to Ms. Katrin Arnold, Head of the International…