At PACE, we are aware that, in African countries in general and in the Sahel in particular, public financial management is a major issue for both the state and the population. Our collective conscience is constantly challenged by the need for transparency, accountability, and the evaluation of our public policies. In this regard, the budget is the preferred financial governance tool for building basic socio-economic infrastructure. Naturally, these achievements, supported by the principles of equity and solidarity, contribute to strengthening public confidence and trust.

To this end, PACE remains ever attentive to these issues related to the allocation of budgetary resources at the level of basic structures, decentralized services, communities, and local authorities. This is why the amounts allocated to these public structures and their management methods form the basis of our strategic analysis. This is one of our major challenges.

At PACE, we firmly believe that carefully selected, evidence-based budgeting for projects and programs, from design to implementation, ensures the relevance and credibility of public policies at both the central and local levels. This is why improving public financial management and combating corruption and non-transparency remain important parameters in the field of strategic governance in our countries.

It should be recalled that the new decentralization policy in Senegal and many other African countries focuses on relevant land use planning and territorial development aimed at ensuring the viability of territories and economic and social development hubs, and strengthening the capacities of local authorities, particularly in financial and economic governance.

The systematic implementation of these inclusive and maturing processes would significantly contribute to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of public action. The territorialization of public policies is particularly relevant here, and PACE intends to play its part in this process.

The PACE strategy aims to support the efforts of the Ministry of Finance and Budget to disseminate and adopt new budget management tools and instruments. In collaboration with states and local authorities, PACE is firmly aligned with the texts governing public financial management and best practices in this area.

We will be attentive to the budget cycle: the performance conference, the budget and macroeconomic framework, the multi-year budget and economic programming (DPBEP), the budget orientation debate (DOB), the preparation of the finance law, and the notification of indicative budget allocations. We then share the multi-year expenditure programming documents (DPPD) and annual performance projects (PAP), the budget conferences, the pre-arbitration process by the Ministry of Finance, the finalization of the draft budget, and the use of information systems tools such as SYSBUDGEP in Senegal.

The centrality of our strategy remains “the result for the benefit of the community.”

PACE regularly conducts systematic evaluations based on shared evidence. This helps inform populations that have become increasingly demanding in terms of transparency, accountability, and efficiency in public financial management. These actions regularly result in evaluation and research results. To this end, performance reports, analyses, and proposed solutions for citizen well-being will be developed on an ongoing basis with all stakeholders.