Technical Advisers, Directors, Regional Delegates and other top officials of the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms (MINFOPRA) have upgraded their knowledge on the contours of the result-based programme budget and sharpened their managerial skills for efficiency in the follow up of its execution on the field.

A capacity-building workshop to get the senior officials, members of the Think Tank Unit on Result-based Management, abreast with evolutions, stakes and challenges of the modern and revolutionary management techniques held in Yaounde yesterday July 11, 2013.

Sitting in the for the Minister, the Inspector General in MINFOPRA, Augustine Essoh, said the advent of the programme budget since January 1, 2013, obliges all administrations to move from their old management styles to embrace the modernity that stimulates the efficient management and sustainable development capable of steering the economy to a middle-income one. "Henceforth, the duty of our officials will no longer be limited only to regulating the budget but attaining desired objectives as well. And they need to be flexible on the principles, tools and mechanisms of executing the Finance Law," he said.

Corroborating the Inspector General, Amatagana Zachee, Director of General Affairs in MINFOPRA said, "Moving from the old management of the State budget to the programme budget has brought so many implications on the quality of expenditure that we have to carry on which is different from the old approach we used before. We want our colleagues to be used to the new concept and techniques and the workshop is to arm them with the necessary skills to surmount challenges that abound with the programme budget."