Ethiopia : Focusing Public Expenditures on Poverty Reduction, Volume 3. Public Expenditure Review of Oromiya Region

The topics for this review were
determined by the Government in consultation with a core
group of donors at a workshop in Brussels organized by the
European Commission in November 2000. The Government
suggested reviewing public expenditures at the regional
level, starting with three regions. This public expenditure
review (PER) marks the first explicit attempt at Regional
PERs. This integrated report draws on draft reports from the
January-April 2000 mission as well as from a workshop held
in Addis Ababa during September 17-18, 2001. The theme amd
the focus topics for this PER emerged out of consultations
between the Ethiopian governmentand a core donor group at a
workshop in Brussels organized by the European Commission in
November 2000. This PER is set on three premises: 1) It is
thematically set in the context of the Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
document; 2) It focuses on getting a better understanding of
the budgetary institutions, systems and processes at the
regional level; and 3) the PER analysis and recommendations
are intended to harmonize with the sequence and pace of the
Government of Ethiopia's Expenditure Management and
Control Program.