Challenges of significant staff fluctuations in the public sector reinforce the need for capacity development, such as provided at the Strategic Planning and Budgeting (SPB) project.

More than 40 high-level representatives of ministries of agriculture, insurance supervisory authorities and insurance industries of Western Balkan countries and Turkey discussed on April 10, 2014 the present…

Since Janaury 2011, we have been working closely with the International Monetary Fund's (IMF)Tax Administration Reform Advisor Mr. Norman Gillanders to help the South East European (SEE) countries’ tax…

The implementation of the EU-funded Strategic Planning and Budgeting (SPB) project follows the envisaged course. In the first year, the CEF successfully initiated the project and delivered seven training…

As members of the learn4dev Core Group, we on March 27-28, 2014 hosted our colleagues from the Agence Française de Développement (French Agency for Development - AFD), the European Commission, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Participants agreed that the meeting was very constructive and it resulted in important progress regarding open questions about the network.

Priority Area Coordinators (PACs) and National Contact Points (NCPs) of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region convened in Vienna from March 11 - 12, 2014 already for the fourth time since the inception…

In the context of the international symposium “Cooperation for State Building and State Reforming” held in Paris, a partnership agreement on public financial management was signed today between Adetef…

CEF just started with one week workshop on Introduction to Public Financial Management, organized in cooperation with The Supreme Office for the Republic of Srpska Public Sector Auditing in the premises…

At the recent learning event, Eugene Creighton from the Irish Revenue shared his country's experience in introducing a new Local Property Tax (LPT) on residential property. The Irish case study showed…

Work can be thought of as a series of steps that flow through traditional departmental boundaries, intertwining with the lives of customers and service users. These flows are called business processes…