The Financial Planing Tool, an aplication for the preparation of MTBP at local level

In the frame of the program for decentralisation and local government IC/dldp in collaboration with University of Lucerne in Switzerland, on 29-30 March 2011, organised in Lucerne a workshop to discuss on tecnical level  the proposed Finacial Planning Tool (FPT), from University of Lucerne, in support of LGUs for the preparation of Medium Term Budget Programme.

This tool is an aplicative program which enables recording, elaboration and analyzing in an automtic way all financial data from the LGU departments during compiling process of MTB.
This workshop was attended by specialists from the IC / DLDP, University of Lucerne, ISB and CoPLAN.
The issues discussed were related to:
identification of strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities of implementing such a tool (software application) for the design of the MTBP at the local level;
identification of the needs for improving the model proposed by the University of Lucerne conform legal requirements of MTBP in Albania;
to set up a mutually agreed project plan with milestones for the development and the implementation of FPT in pilot LGUs.