Fourth Annual Meeting of the Middle East and North Africa Senior Budget Officials (MENA-SBO)

More than 70 senior budget officials and public finance experts from the MENA region and their OECD counterparts gathered for the 4th Annual Meeting of MENA Senior Budget Officials, held in Beirut on the 21 and 22nd of September 2011.

This meeting, jointly organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan, under the umbrella of the GIFT-MENA network, served as a platform for the presentation and discussion of various budget-related reform projects and country experiences, namely public-private partnerships, restoring public finances in OECD countries, the impact of democratic transitions on budgeting and public expenditures, transparency and citizen information as well as building capacities of budget officials in the MENA region.