Hello dear participant !

Welcome to our training workshop on drawing up and updating commitment plans !

In this sequence 22, we will focus on the actors involved in the process of drawing up and updating commitment plans under central coordination.

The drawing up of commitment plans involves both actors from ministries and institutions and actors from central coordination. In this session, we focus on those from central coordination.

At the central coordination level, there are four main actors:

• – Directorate General of Budget (DGB): This is the coordinating body for drawing up and updating the commitment plan. Its mandate is to produce and make the necessary updates to the consolidated commitment plan, which should serve as a reference for drawing up and updating the final sectoral commitment plans following iterative dialogue with the Directorate General of Treasury and sectoral administrations.
• – Directorate General of Treasury and Financial and Monetary Cooperation (TREASURY): This department is responsible for drawing up and updating the cash position plan. The initial sectoral commitment plans submitted to the DGB by the sectoral ministries and administrations serve as input for determining the profile of the post-consolidation cash position plan. Once the cash position plan has been prepared by the Directorate General of Treasury, it is used to develop the credit consumption projections contained in the so-called final commitment plan. These two documents are annexed to the draft budget bill for the year. The DGTCFM, through the Treasury Committee it coordinates, updates the cash position plan monthly to best account for the impacts of changing economic conditions on the State’s cash position.
• – Minister of Finance: In connection with the sectoral ministers, the Minister is responsible for the proper execution of the Finance Law and compliance with budgetary balances. In this capacity, to prevent a deterioration in these balances, the Minister has budgetary regulation powers, allowing him to plan the rate of appropriation consumption based on the cash position situation. The Minister of Finance exercises authority over the main departments responsible for coordinating the budgetary process in general and drawing up budgetary regulation tools, such as the Cash position plan and the Commitment plan.
• – Treasury and Budgetary Regulation Committee: Chaired by the Minister of Finance, the Regulation Committee is a body that includes representatives of the DGB and the DGTCFM. In this case, it is responsible for validating the cash position plan, which serves as input for drawing up the final consolidated commitment plan, as well as validating the latter prior to communicating the profiles to the sectoral administrations.

From this sequence, it should be noted that the actors in the process of drawing up and updating Commitment Plans under central coordination are: the DGB, the TREASURY, the Minister of Finance, and the Regulatory and Treasury Committee.