How effective is control in state public finances?

The Centre for Economic Strategy invites you to take part in the discussion “How effective is control in state public finances?“, which will be held on February 28 at 16:00 (Kyiv time) at Zoom.

Every day Ukraine spends about $100 million on a full-scale war. These costs are covered by the Ukrainian budget, which receives several billion dollars of international support every month.

The system of state financial control, which includes the Accounting Chamber and the State Audit Service is supposed to ensure that the funds are spent efficiently and transparently.

During the event, CES experts and their colleagues will present research on how effectively these authority bodies work and what can be improved in their work.

Discussion recording:

Event schedule (Kyiv time):

16:00-16:20 Presentation of the research “How effective is the system of state internal financial control?”:

• Yurii Gaidai, Senior Economist at CES;
• Viktor Masyarchuk, Head of the Fiscal Policy Research Center;
• Olena Makeieva, Head of the Board of Directors at “Aksonova&Associates”.

16:20 – 17:30 Roundtable discussion with participants:

• Olena Andrieieva, Head of the analytics department at Institute of Analytics and Advocacy;
• Alla Basalaeva, Head of the State Audit Service of Ukraine (TBC)
• Kyrylo Klymenko, Member of the Accounting Chamber;
• Roksolana Pidlasa, Chairperson of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;
• Olha Pishchanska, Head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine;
  
• Dmytro Shevchuk, Deputy Chairman of the State Audit Service of Ukraine;
• Denys Uliutin, First Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine (TBC).

Moderator: Oleksandra Betliy, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

The event will be held in Ukrainian with simultaneous translation into English.

The research and event are organized within the framework of the Good Governance Fund project “Economic HUB: Sound PFM Policies and Vision for Growth”, funded by UK International Development from the UK Government.

The project is implemented by Abt Britain and the Centre for Economic Strategy.