About this learning event

This hybrid workshop will address monitoring as a phase of the policy cycle while focusing on structural reforms outlined in ERPs. It will offer hands-on knowledge of possible methods and available tools for monitoring of implementation and results of structural reform measures.

The workshop will be strongly based on exercises, peer-review, self-learning and sharing of practical know-how by experts. The theoretical content and concepts will be limited to a minimum necessary for practical work on developing key performance indicators for ERP structural reform measures and the use of indicators for reporting on implementation and monitoring of results.

What will you learn

The practical oriented workshop will offer many opportunities to learn new approaches and interesting information with sharing experiences, having discussions with exerts and working on case studies.

The knowledge shared at the workshop will include:

• the difference between process (implementation, output) indicators and results (outcome) indicators, and the difference between monitoring and evaluation,
• practical examples and know-how on finding good indicators by exploring available databases, analytical materials, the objectives and purposes of the measure,
• practical examples of establishing the baseline value and setting of realistic and meaningful targets for indicators, based on analysis of past data and the content of the measure,
• simple tools and methods to select the most appropriate and useful indicators (based on the OECD Monitoring Tool for ERPs),
• simple presentational tools, based on indicators, to summarize the information on implementation and on progress towards expected results,
• examples of good practices.

Who should attend

This online course is designed for officials of finance and line ministries (and other budget beneficiaries) engaged in ERP structural reform measures and their monitoring.

Faculty

The workshop will be delivered by:

Janez Šušteršič

CEF Associate Fellow, Professor of Economic Policy; former Minister of Finance of Slovenia

Work Area

Janez Šušteršič is a senior economic expert with more than 10 years hands-on experience in formulating and implementing economic and fiscal policies. At the CEF he is an affiliated expert supporting the development and implementation of the Data and Analysis for Designing Policies thematic area. He led the Slovenian government's macroeconomic institute (IMAD) from 2000 to 2007. He was Vice-President of the ECOFIN's Economic Policy Committee and, in 2012, finance minister of Slovenia designing the policy of fiscal consolidation and banking crisis resolution. Today he is a partner in a private firm RE-FORMA, d.o.o., and a full professor of economic policy. Since 2013 he worked as an international consultant for the OECD and on a number of technical assistance projects.`

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Saša Jazbec

CEF Expert and former State Secretary, Ministry of Finance of Slovenia

Work Area

Ms. Jazbec first gained working experience at the Ljubljana Stock Exchange, and the Bank of Slovenia, where she served as a foreign exchange manager between 2002 and 2009, as Head of the Risk Management Division and a member of the Euro adaption team. She also worked in business consulting and at the Ministry of Finance in the Department for Forecasting Fiscal Flows within the Budget Directorate, where she was a member of the working group for preparing projections of expenditure related to the aging of the population. From 2013, she served as Director General of the Budget of the Ministry of Finance, and State Secretary from 2017 to 2020 responsible for budget and public accounting.  In April 2020 she took over the Health Economics Directorate at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia.

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Tilen Božič

CEF Expert and former State Secretary of Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Slovenia

Work Area

Mr Božič was appointed state secretary at the Ministry of finance from September 2016 to September 2018, working mainly with the Directorate for the System of Tax, Customs and Other Public Finance Revenues and the Financial authorities of Slovenia. He was then appointed state secretary at the Ministry of Labour of the Republic of Slovenia in October 2018, where his main priorities included the labour (market) and the pension system. After a highly intensive six years of (co)shaping tax, pension system and labour market policies and getting a good grasp of Slovene politics, Mr Božič decided to go back to his (professional) roots. Accordingly, he incorporated AT8 ltd in June 2020 to (re)start delivering advanced tax, accounting and financial advisory services.

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Practical information

Applications for online participation are opened until October 19.

Format: The hybrid workshop will take place face-to-face and online. The F2F workshop will be 2,5 days long with interesting sessions each day available to the online audience.

Location: The hybrid workshop will take place at the CEF premises in Ljubljana Slovenia and online.

Language: The event will be delivered in English.

Participation fee: No participation fees will be charged for beneficiaries of the FISR project.

Partners

This event is delivered as part of the EU funded multi-country project “Strengthening Line Ministries’ Capacities to Assess Fiscal Implications of Structural Reforms” (FISR) implemented by the CEF. Participation of public officials from Moldova is made possible by the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.