Oversight Agency Inspectors Participate in Financial Workshop
 

A financial and technical training workshop was organized February 7, 2007 in Beirut for 27 Inspectors from the Central Inspection Board, the primary agency responsible for the administrative and financial oversight of government. Part of activities designed to encourage greater accountability and transparency in the financial work of local government and the development of an institutional environment that facilitates an improved quality of governance, the workshop focused on the standardized procedures and systems developed by SUNY/CLD and now utilized by most municipalities in Lebanon.

In his opening remarks SUNY/CLD Lebanon Director Mahmoud Batlouni provided an overview of these procedures, processes, and customized systems. Detailed presentations of the automated financial systems were then given in order to enhance inspector capabilities to effectively inspect municipal work processes - including those related to municipal revenues and budget expenditures - and to broaden the inspectors’ understanding of the new systems that support more transparent and effective local government.