The 2013 CAPE conference: budgeting in the real world

13 - 14 November 2013

Venue:

Overseas Development Institute and streamed live online

Details

A country’s national budget never fails to attract attention. For good reason – it is one of the most tangible expressions of how a government aims to govern. It ostensibly sets the political, economic and development agenda for the whole of the nation. Or does it? In practice, the difference between what’s on paper and how budgets are actually made and spent can be stark.

This disconnect can be rooted in a range of factors – the reality of how politics and policy mingle in the allocation of funds; shifts in the global economy that confound expectations; and unplanned spending that substantially alters stated intentions of the budget as planned.

The 2013 CAPE Conference will look at how budgets actually work in the real world and explore the latest thinking on how they can deliver better development outcomes. Bringing together a distinguished array of global leaders and thinkers, the conference aims to shed light on two overarching questions:

How does budgeting and public financial management really work in practice?
What – if anything – can reformers do to strengthen budgets to improve development outcomes?

The conference will be live streamed on both days and you can register for this via the 'register' tab above. Should you wish further information about the event please contact Elizabeth Barnes (e.barnes@odi.org.uk).

Day one: 13 November

Keynote: Antoinette Sayeh - Director, Africa Department, IMF

Speakers
Neil Cole - Executive Secretary, Collaborative African Budget Reform Initiative
Carlos Scartascini - Principal Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Kay Brown - Chief Director of Budget Planning, National Treasury, South Africa (TBC)
Richard Allen – Senior Research Associate, ODI; and former Deputy Division Chief in the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Mulia Nasution - former Director General for Budget and Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance, Indonesia (TBC)
Philipp Krause - Head of Research for the Budget Strengthening Initiative, ODI
Bjoern Dressel - Research Fellow, Australian National University

Day two: 14 November

Keynote: Donald Kaberuka - President, African Development Bank Group (TBC)

Speakers
Luisa Dias Diogo - former Prime Minister of Mozambique
Matt Andrews - Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Nick Manning - Head of the Governance and Public Sector Management Group, World Bank (TBC)
Amal Larhlid - Senior Governance Advisor, OECD
Kenneth Mugambe - Ag. Director Budget, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda
Tim Williamson - Country Programme Manager - South Sudan & Uganda, Budget Strengthening Initiative, ODI
Bhanu Prasad Acharya - Auditor General, Office of the Auditor General, Nepal (TBC)
Allen Schick - Professor, University of Maryland (TBC)
Paolo de Renzio - Senior Research Fellow, International Budget Partnership (IBP)

ODI is testing a new events registration system - EventBrite. Use the options below to register. When you click the 'Register' button you will be taken to EventBrite site to complete the process. Following registration, you will be returned to the main ODI events page. If you encounter any problems, please email meetings@odi.org.uk

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Overseas Development Institute

Venue

Directions:

You can choose from a range of transport options when attending events and meetings at ODI. We are adjacent to SouthwarkTube Station on the Jubilee line. To the north of the building, Blackfriars Station is also accessible from the south bank facilitating ease of access to and from mainline railway services, including Thamesink for Eurostar services from St Pancras International, South East Trains and the District and Circle Tube Lines for the City Airport via Bank. Waterloo Station and London Bridge Station are a short distance to the west and east of building respectively.

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