Moldova and Montenegro recently ratified the Agreement on Establishing the Center of Excellence in Finance as an international organization. Thus far five countries ratified the Agreement: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Slovenia. Countries that ratified the Agreement are full CEF members and can influence all major decisions through the CEF Governing Board.

CEF together with the Ministry of Finance, Montenegro started with the implementation of project activities in the course of the Public Accountants Certification Training – PACT. The internationally recognized,…

We are launching the 2016 Learning Program for Finance Officials in South East Europe (SEE). It includes over 40 learning initiatives across the four thematic priorities of our work: Public Financial Management…

High-level representatives from ministries of finance, line ministries and central planning authorities in South East Europe and representatives of EU and IMF attended the High-level Policy Dialogue on…

The CEF hosts two IMF FAD technical advisors and their support staff, whose efforts were until recently funded by the Japanese government. To thank the Japanese government for this important contribution…

Fiscal transparency is essential for good governance and accountability in public financial management. After the latest crisis we have seen new and strengthened standards and diagnostic tools for measuring…

We are launching a photo contest on our Social media: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to get feedback from participants of our learning events on the redesign of our lobby.

CEF VOICES FROM THE REGION: Ms. Anamariija Radulovska from Macedonian Public Revenue Office shared her experince of attending our workshop on “Creating an Effective Audit Plan.”

The CEF lobby is a key meeting place in our learning institution and we wanted it to reflect our understanding of learning as creative, future-proofed, supportive, bold, challenging, and fun. We have teamed…

The CEF has been delivering learning events on central banking topics for a long time. We wanted however to refresh and widen the scope of our activities in that area. To be able to do that and to keep…