Countries in South East Europe (SEE) have been incorporating performance information into their budget processes to strengthen the relationship between the allocation of public resources and the results…

The global international development cooperation landscape is changing rapidly. We have been witnessing a proliferation of new development actors, and a shift in the inclusiveness agenda. At the same time,…

National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the Act ratifying the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) on June 12, 2014. The Agreement that is establishing the…

Montenegro is currently implementing a medium-term budgeting framework; these efforts emphasize the importance of learning from other countries’ good practices. The ministry of finance has an important…

More than 20 donor agencies and multilateral organizations will gather at the annual meeting of the learn4dev network. The CEF is organizing this year's annual meeting of the network together with Swiss…

On their study visit to Slovenia, a group of 30 young employees of the Dutch Ministry of Finance also visited the CEF.  The group just returned from Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the Dutch constituency…

The Ministry of Finance of Montenegro and the CEF are happy to announce that Training of Internal Auditors in Public Sector (TIAPS) in Montenegro is celebrating the successful completion of its first year.…

Mr. Dan Manolescu, State Secretary at the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, signed the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance as an international organization.  Romania is thus…

Mr. Steffen Normann Hansen joined us at the CEF in the position of IMF Tax Administration Reform Advisor for South East Europe. The CEF therefore continues to host two IMF FAD advisors and their support…

The IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department published a Board Paper on Budget Institutions in G-20 Countries. In this context budget institutions are defined as the structures, rules, and procedures that govern…