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Enhancing the Finance Function in Line Ministries - Jon Blöndal, OECD
1. Enhancing the Finance Function
in Line Ministries
37th Annual Meeting of Senior Budget Officials
Stockholm, 9 June 2016
Jón Ragnar Blöndal
Head, Budgeting and Public Expenditures
Public Governance and Territorial Development
3. • Finance Function in Line Ministries and the “Financial
Control Model”
• Lessons Learned for an Effective “Financial Control
Model.”
3
Agenda
4. • Top-down budgeting is a fundamental shift in the functioning of the
budget process and the role of line ministries
– Information asymmetry
– “Ownership of actions”
– Baselines (incrementalism)
• Ministerial expenditure ceilings (caps) (envelopes)
– Varying degrees of flexibility
– Annual or multi-year time-frame
– Entitlement / mandatory spending?
• Top-down budgeting is only feasible if line ministries are capable of
implementing such a system of expenditure ceilings
4
Top-Down Budgeting
5. 5
Finance Function in Line Ministries (1)
• Conventional Model
– Central finance function in line ministries is largely technical
and administrative in nature
– Central budget office interacts directly with sectoral program
units in line ministries
• “Financial Control Model”
– Strong finance function in line ministries
• “Each Ministry is Its Own Finance Ministry”
– Central budget office does not interact with sectoral program
units directly (unilaterally)
6. Finance Function in Line Ministries (2)
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Conventional
Model
Financial Control
Model
Technical Financial
Administration
Budget Control
(Discipline)
Fiscal Co-ordination
(Re-) Allocation
Operational
Control
(Management of
resources)
Cumulative Effect
7. • Fosters budget discipline
– Within each ministerial expenditure ceiling
– Monitors budget preparation and implementation in sectoral programs in order to
avoid overspending on the current and multi-year ministerial expenditure ceilings.
– Acts as an “early warning” system to identify potential problems and concerns
• Any expected over-spending must trigger action
– Discuss necessary policy corrections in each respective sectoral program to prevent
overspending
– Discuss policy changes in other sectoral program to compensate (re-allocate) for the
overspending within a ministerial total expenditure ceiling
– Overspending beyond the total ministerial expenditure ceiling
• Only a strong central finance function in line ministries can
take this whole-of-ministry view
– Close interaction with minister
7
Budget Control
8. • Stimulate re-allocation within each ministerial
expenditure ceiling
– From sectoral programs that are less valued to those that are more valued
– “Less with less”
• Creating “fiscal space” for new policy initiatives
– Incrementalism
– High degree of trust needed vis-à-vis central budget office
• React rapidly to ensure budget control (discipline)
– Ensuring compliance with total ministerial expenditure ceiling
• Again, only a strong central finance function in line
ministries can take this whole-of-ministry view
– Close interaction with minister
– Role of central budget office is brokering inter-ministerial reallocation and
supporting overall political prioritization
8
Fiscal Coordination
9. • Enhance effective and efficient management of
resources
– Foster good managerial practices among budget holders within line
ministries
– Devolution within line ministries
• Inform decisions on reallocations
– Information asymmetry
9
Operational Control
11. • Establish ministerial ceilings at the start of budget
preparations
– Updating previous multi-year expenditure ceilings
– Reallocations among expenditure ceilings, or addition/reduction in total
expenditures
– May require moving forward the budget calendar
• If fiscal year = calendar year, then “single decision moment” in May
• Can be politically difficult: making difficult decisions earlier
• Ceilings are binding once established
– If they appear to be negotiable, line ministries will focus their attention on
increasing their ceiling, rather than complying with the established one
11
Early and Binding Expenditure Ceilings
12. • Sub-ceilings for salaries, other operating expenditure,
transfers, and capital expenditure
• Avoid multiple expenditure ceilings for each minister
– The larger the number of expenditure ceilings, the smaller the opening for re-
allocation
• Avoid “ring-fenced” expenditure ceilings for specific
programs
• Avoid cross-ministerial expenditure ceilings
– Follow institutional boundaries for accountability purposes
12
Design of Expenditure Ceilings
13. • For the central finance function in line ministries to be effective in its new
role, sectoral units and agencies should be the “budget holders,” i.e.
incur commitments and order payments
• It can then perform – and be seen to perform – its role in a more neutral
and objective manner
• The central finance function serves as an interface with the budget office in
budget policy; this does not prevent devolving technical financial
administrative functions to sectoral units
13
“Budget Holders”
14. • Fundamental questions beyond outputs and results need to be
asked
– Why is this programme a task of central government, rather than lower levels of
government or the market?
– What alternative policy instruments could be used to achieve the same programme
objectives? What does each different policy instrument cost?
– What would happen if the entire programme would be abolished?
• Little incentive for line ministry to be critical if imposed from
the outside…
• …but can be seen by line ministries as an opportunity to
improve policies and for reallocation and funding new
initiatives
• Role of central budget office is primarily to provide
frameworks and general guidance
14
Institutionalisation of Programme
Evaluation
15. • Finance Function within Line Ministries
– Varies greatly in practice, depending especially on the devolution of technical
financial administrative to sectoral units (or shared services agencies)
– Establishing relations working relations with sectoral programme units
– Senior position; generally reports directly to the top civil servant in the ministry
– Enjoys the confidence of Minister
• Co-ordination with the Ministry of Finance
– The finance function can only be effective if it co-operates closely with the central
budget office
– The central budget office must operate via the finance function in line ministries,
rather than directly with its sectoral programs.
– Heads of the finance function often have a professional background in the central
budget office.
– In some cases, the central budget office has ‘veto” power over appointment
– Finance directorate serves as interface with the Ministry of Finance in budget
policy, but not necessary for its to devolve technical financial administration.
15
Finance Function within Line Ministries
and the Ministry of Finance
16. • A major institutional reform
– Requires an integrated package of measures
• Potential initial resistance in the line ministries themselves
– What do they gain by this reform?
– Greater ownership; establishing trust between the finance function in line
ministries and the central budget office
– As budgets become more flexible within an overall ministerial expenditure ceiling,
reallocation of resources (fiscal space) to implement new policies is a key benefit
16
Conclusion
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