Hello dear participant!

Welcome once more to our training workshop on drawing up and updating commitment plans,

Today, we’re going to take a look at sequence 23, which deals with the timetable for implementing the commitment plan.

This involves highlighting all the phases and deadlines for implementing the commitment plan.

The drawing up of the commitment plan begins with the preparation of the state budget, and as we will see, each stage of the commitment plan’s implementation schedule corresponds to a specific phase of the budget calendar.

The stages involved in drawing up the commitment plan are as follows:

• – At the beginning of April, when the initial medium term expenditure frameworks (MTEF)s are drawn up as part of the budget preparation process, the first drafts of the annual work plan (AWP) are produced.
• – Before September 20, when the budget conferences are held, the initial commitment plans are examined and validated by the sectoral ministries and administrations.
• – When the finance bill is finalized, the consolidated commitment plans (CCP) must be produced by the DGB and forwarded to the Treasury Department by September 30 at the latest. Then, from September 30 to October 05, the consolidated commitment plan is adjusted on the basis of the constraints of the Cash position plan, and the final commitment plan is appended to the finance bill.
• – Before December 10, during the process of adopting the Finance Law, the final Consolidated Commitment Plan must be fine-tuned, so that the relevant instructions can be communicated to the sectoral ministries and administrations. Once the instructions have been received, these ministries and administrations hold specific conferences to update the Sector Commitment Plans.
• – Once the Finance Law has been passed, the programming of the execution of the Finance Law is carried out in parallel with two tasks for drawing up commitment plans. Firstly, from December 10 to 15, the sectoral ministries and administrations must draw up and send to the DGB their final Sectoral Commitment Plans. Then, from December 15 to 20, the Commitment Plans must be implemented in the Budget Information System.
• – Throughout the following year, while the Finance Law is being executed, the Commitment Plans are periodically updated on a quarterly basis, in March, June and September of the following year, also known as year N+1.

From this sequence, we can see that the preparation of Commitment Plans is a year-long process, just like the preparation of the State budget, with precise deadlines that must be respected.