Benefiting from international institutions’ experiences to improve youth cadres’ experiences for development of the Ministry’s institutional work                                                    ...

  Benefiting from international institutions’ experiences to improve youth cadres’ experiences for development of the Ministry’s institutional work                                                                                                                            First deputy to Minister of Finance for Institutional Development, Dr. Amr Badawy, confirmed the importance of accelerating completion of automation system of  the State’s General Budget, to benefit from automation positive effects of strengthening financial control on public expenditures and revenues, both sides of budget, as well as benefiting from financial surplus that will be achieved by automation of government payment methods, which had been annually estimated by technical studies at billions of EGP. The aforementioned has been mentioned during the workshop organized on 11th January, 2015 by the Ministry of Finance in cooperation with the regional center of an international financial institution. The 4 day workshop shall investigate and discuss the ways to overcome automation obstacles being faced by sectors of Budget, Financing, and Government Final Accounts, and to recognize the international expertise in developing the performance of Ministry of Finance’s sectors, which is beneficial to all sectors of the State’s Administrative Body, service and local sectors. Mr. Atef Elfeki, deputy to Minister of Finance for Information Technology, Ambassador Ayman AlKaffas, deputy to Minister of Finance for international relations, Khaled Nofal, deputy to Minister of Finance, Yasser Sobhy, executive director of Macro-Financial Policies Unit in Ministry of Finance, as well as  large number of young cadres from relevant sectors, e.g. General Budget, Financing, Final Accounts and Financial Directorates, participated in the workshop. Dr. Amr Badawy declared that such workshop is prepared  in light of the state’s  trend to consider young cadres working in governmental sectors, develop their skills and experiences to be the core of institutional development operations, to develop the state’s  administrative body, upgrade the efficiency of government performance, that will be reflected in business environment, resulting in promoting, attracting and improving investment environment in Egypt, as technology has a role in facilitating the performance, removing obstacles, increasing transparency and providing equal opportunities.  Mr. Atef Elfeki, deputy to Minister of Finance for Information Technology affirmed that this workshop is within a plan implemented by the Ministry to develop public finance system and its automation. The objective of such workshop is the training of cadres, adjusting work system; especially cash flows, identifying the obstacles of budget automation, controlling spending programs through work automation in all accounting units all over the country, whereas all government financial transactions will be automated; so public spending will be instantly adjusted and controlled, decreasing budget deficit and rationalizing spending.       He also said that Ministry of Finance is keen on benefiting from international experiences and identifying experiences of the countries succeeded in that field such as, European Union and also benefiting from the IMF and WB technical experience in that field to transfer such experiences to train future cadres. He also indicated that Ministry of Finance has many young cadres and experiences that can efficiently develop institutional work methods. He also pointed out that the workshop shall address many issues;  most important of which is determining main obstacles facing automation system implementation of the state’s general budget as well as effective and successful implementation of that system, in addition to identifying authorities responsible for the same and benefit from that project to achieve more transparency in current applicable finance management processes for reforming the financial sector that contribute in development of public finance management , as well as the expansion of applying Treasury Single Account that contribute in more transparency .