Evaluate Government Resource Planning Technology to Improve PFM Results
What’s really needed for government resource planning effectiveness? Information technology support for PFM:
- Fiscal transparency through reporting and budget portals
- Functional comprehensiveness across the budget cycle
- Non-functional capabilities like reliability, usability, and performance
- Interoperability, or seamless integration, across all GRP systems and subsystems
- Robust ICT practices
Les bonnes nouvelles for government is the availability of the FreeBalance GRP Empowerment advisory service for any government:
- Identifies PFM and GRP opportunities for improvement
- Uncovers risks that should be mitigated
- Analyzes capability maturity and opportunity to improve capacity and procedures
- Aligns needed ICT support to meet PFM reform plans and improve Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) ratings
Unlike traditional PFM diagnostic tools, this service deeply analyzes technology. From the PFM perspective.
Un autre point de vue is that diagnostics should be “technology neutral”. Our view has some nuanced differences. We believe that diagnostics should be “technology neutral” but not “technology agnostic”:
- How capable of updating to meet future PFM reform needs?
- How modern & what risks come from use of legacy ICT?
- How open to provide equipment, middleware, and database choice?
- How interoperable to automate decision-making dashboards, and transparency portals?
- How expensive to maintain and support?
As a social enterprise with the mission of improving PFM globally, we believe in leveraging government investments. We will not recommend replacing existing software with the FreeBalance Accountability Suite.
What is different? Our understanding of interoperability needed for effective PFM across all systems:
- Metadata management, particularly the support for budget classifications
- Consistent budget and commitment controls including segregation of duties
- Organization structures for assets, approvals, and responsibilities assigned to public servants
- Performance management for procurement value-for-money, and civil service effectiveness tied to national development strategies
- Interface and integration good practices
Deeper Dives
Success Blueprint post from 2018 describing an associated services covering:
- Country, Government, Project, and Vendor contexts
- Risk and Success Diagnostics (shared with the GRP Empowerment Service)
- Cycle de mise en œuvre
- Agile vs. Waterfall process checklist
Governance Framework post from 2013 describing the framework that led to the GRP Empowerment Service
- Technologie PRV used to automate financial functions in government
- provides a set of outils: controls, front-office, decision making
- that are leveraged by institutions whose capabilities can improve or reduce effectiveness
- qui a des effets positifs ou négatifs révélés par des mesures telles que les notations de crédit ou la perception de la corruption
- qui sont utilisés pour d'importants indicateurs composites tels que les indicateurs de gouvernance mondiale
- qui, avec d'autres indicateurs, montrent des résultats en matière de gouvernance tels que la croissance économique ou l'amélioration de l'éducation