CABRI

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CABRI

• A brief on the Collaborative Africa Budget
  Reforms Initiative A Senior Budget Officials of
  Africa forum.
• By Kubai Khasiani
• Kenya
• Chair-CABRI

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Objectives of Cabri

• The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative
  (CABRI) is an African-led and managed network
  that aims to contribute towards the efficacy of
  public financial management by improving the
  appropriateness, quality and sustainability of
  budget reform programmes.

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Objectives of CABRI(contd)

• It seeks to build stakeholder understanding on
  budget management
• support capacity improvements for budget
  implementation and management
• support the development of common approaches
  regarding key international and regional
  initiatives.

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Objectives of CABRI(contd)

• It seeks to promote a culture of professionalism
  among Senior Budget Officials from Africa and to
  share and learn from each others success and
  failures and build on them to create a credible
  public financial management system in the
  continent with the final objective of improving
  service delivery and achieving economic and
  social development goals in Africa.

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Effect

• Ownership of reforms- Through interaction
• Creation of capacity Through country visits,
  opportunities to share and learn
• Demonstration effect learning from each other

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Conception

• The idea was initially conceptualised by
  officials from the ministries of finance from
  South Africa, Mozambique and Uganda in response
  to the increasing interest of senior budget
  officials in learning from their peers in other
  African countries.

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Memorandum

• A Memorandum of Understanding for the network was
  drafted at the Inaugural Meeting of a Network of
  Senior Budget Officials in Africa in Nairobi,
  June 2005.

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Memorandum

• Agreed that there should be an annual Budget
  Reform seminar which brings together all CABRI
  network members to network and review
  experiences, discuss reform solutions and work
  towards an understanding of which reforms work
  and why. The MoU was updated at the Second
  Budget Reform Seminar in Maputo, Mozambique.

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Activities of Cabri

• CABRI- started in 2004 with an initial seminar in
  South Africa Pretoria where 9 countries from
  Africa attended
• A follow up Business meeting in June 2005 in
  Nairobi
• 2nd seminar held end of November/December 2005 in
  Maputo, Mozambique

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Organization

• CABRI run by a Management Committee currently
  consisting of Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique,
  Mauritius, Nigeria and South Africa.
• Secretariat based in South Africa and current
  Chair is Kenya

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Achievements

• Have had two successful Seminars on various
  current themes in public financial management.
  Third one planned for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in
  December, 2006
• Have published two seminar outputs on the
  presentations and discussions
• Have own website.www.africa-sbo.org with the
  publications

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Achievements Contd

• Have secured assistance from partners to fund
  activities including setting up a fulltime
  secretariat. Advert for staff currently running

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Contacts

• kkubai_at_treasury.go.ke
• Neil.Cole_at_treasury.gov.za
• Alexandra_at_treasury.gov.za

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CABRI-Future

• Membership- all countries in the African
  Continent are invited to be members and to
  participate in the activities of the association
• Resource Mobilization Already a number of donors
  have started supporting the organization but the
  main source of funding will be expected to come
  from member countries once the MOU is ratified by
  Member governments.

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CABRI-Future Contd

• We look forward to playing a leading role in
  budget reforms in the continent.
• We shall also collaborate with similar
  initiatives across the globe