Implementing a Subnational Results-Oriented Management and Budgeting System : Lessons from Medellín, Colombia
After a century of political centralization in Colombia, the first public election of city mayors in 19861 began a decentralization trend, which was later reinforced by a constitutional reform in 1991. Subnational governments (departments and munic...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/921331468018564312/Implementing-a-subnational-results-oriented-management-and-budgeting-system-lessons-from-Medellin-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28072 |
| Summary: | After a century of political
centralization in Colombia, the first public election of
city mayors in 19861 began a decentralization trend, which
was later reinforced by a constitutional reform in 1991.
Subnational governments (departments and municipalities)
were made responsible for the planning and management of
social and economic development in their jurisdictions.
Administrative and political reforms were accompanied by
fiscal decentralization, including the transfer of central
government revenues. Since 1991 the growth of fiscal
transfers has accelerated. Departments and municipalities
are now responsible for public health, education, water
supply, and sanitation expenditures through earmarked
transfers. Out of the total amount of central government
expenditures (21.8 percent of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
in 2008) almost one-quarter represent regional transfers (5
percent of GDP), which finance half of all regional
expenditures (10.2 percent of GDP). The purpose of this
paper is to describe the budget process reform implemented
in Medellin, and to analyze its actual performance and
evaluate its success. The reform is changing the way public
resources are allocated and executed, while gradually
institutionalizing supply and demand-side practices beyond
the government's political cycles. This paper describes
and analyzes how the Results-oriented budgeting (RoB) was
designed and implemented, and the achievements of the system
to date, in terms of resource allocation and the
policy-making process. |
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