Title: Training in the practice of public management
Client: Ministry of Plan, Economic Restructuring and
Work Promotion
Country: Benin
Year: 1998
Financing: Ministry of Plan
Description of project and services rendered
Within the frame of the Management of the Economy Support Project (Projet d'Appui a la Gestion de l'economie (PAGE)), the training program in economic and financial management is aimed at strengthening the competency of the "A" managers in charge of:
- the programming and follow up of the public investments, the external resources coordination, the national accounting and statistics within the Ministry of Plan, Economic Restructuring and Work Promotion (MPERWP);
- the preparation, management and execution of the budgets, the forecasts and finally, the establishment of procurement procedures and modality within the Ministry of Finance (MF);
- the harmonization of the unique file of balance and state personnel within the Ministry of Public Function, Work and Administrative Reform (MPFWAR);
- Within the six sectarian ministries (Ministry of Rural development) chosen to benefit from the PAGE interventions because of their importance in the consumed public investment, the performance improvement and the quality of work.
In the frame of this training program, P. A. Management International (Canada) Inc's mandate was to give the training session on the "practice of public management".
The objective of this session on the "practice of public management" is to enable the participants to:
- Develop a common comprehension of the government's objectives in the context of an evolution of the public administration;
- Define and establish new management practices in their administrative environment.
