PEFA Assessment: Data required and sources

PEFA 2016 Performance Indicator

Data required Data sources

Data Provided

(Y/N)

22.1 Stock of expenditure arrears

  • Level of expenditure arrears (at end of each fiscal year)

 

  • Total BCG expenditures (for each fiscal year)
  • Treasury

 

  • Budget directorate

 

  • Government accounting office

 

  • Budgetary units

 

  • Debt management office Chamber of commerce/Industry and other private sector representatives for triangulation
 

22.2 Expenditure arrears monitoring

 
  • Information on how expenditure arrears are defined and through what means (legislation, tender documents, contracts, court decisions)

 

  • Recent data report(s) on expenditure arrears that indicate stock, composition and age profiles

 

  • Frequency and delay of generating such reports during the past twelve months

 

  • Treasury

 

  • Budget directorate

 

  • Budgetary units

 

  • Government accounting office

 

  • Debt management office

 

 
PI-23 Payroll controls

23.1 Integration of payroll and personnel records

  • Documentation of payroll changes and corresponding personnel records

 

  • Documentation of the procedures applied and demonstration of the process for dealing with changes to personnel records and reconciliation of payroll and personnel records

 

  • Information on the timing of reconciliations
  • Public service commission

 

  • Personnel management directorate or department.

 

  • Accountant general

 

  • Finance officers of budgetary units and agencies

 

  • Supreme audit institution to triangulate information

 

 

23.2 Management of payroll changes

 

  • Frequency and timing of updating of personnel records and payroll data

 

  • Information on the number and size of retroactive adjustments

 

  • Delay in the number of days from change in personnel status to personnel records and payroll data are updated

 

  • Public service commission

 

  • Personnel management directorate or department

 

  • Accountant general

 

  • Finance officers of budgetary units and agencies

 

  • Supreme audit institution to triangulate information

 

  • Staff union to triangulate information
 

Annex 1.4. Initial data request letter and data template