Day: August 8, 2024

Digepres completes Institutional Strategic Planning 2021-2024 with projected compliance exceeding 90%

The Budget team presented the performance, goals, achievements, and lessons learned from four years of work focused on the Institutional Strategic Plan (PEI). The General Directorate of Budget (Digepres) held the Strategic Planning and Institutional Strengthening workshop for the 2021-2024 period. The objective was to comprehensively share the execution and achievement of goals across different areas, strategic axes, and indicators, and to establish the work guidelines for the budget and the corresponding PEI for the 2025-2028 period. The review of the planning document, with a projected completion rate exceeding 901% of the target, aimed to reflect on the strategic and programmatic guidelines and foundations of four years of work that will guarantee the future transformations and direction of the financial institution in the short, medium, and long term. The opening and closing of the PEI review workshop were led by José Rijo Presbot, Director General of Budget, and Iván Ramírez, Deputy Director General, along with department heads and representatives of middle management and technical staff from the Budget Office. In his closing remarks, the Director of Digepres, José Rijo Presbot, expressed his gratitude for the work carried out and the results achieved by the Budget team over the past four years. “The important thing here is to understand that with this review of the process, we seek to improve the institution's performance in its dealings with the State and the public,” stated Rijo Presbot. He also highlighted the significant institutional progress made over the years and cited planning as the fundamental tool for forecasting, rational decision-making, and as a guiding element of the strategic process. For her part, Patricia Castillo, head of the Planning and Development department, who, along with her team, is responsible for the evaluation process, thanked the staff for their enthusiastic participation in the workshops. These workshops brought together directors, managers, and area liaisons who, using a collaborative methodology of analysis and experience sharing, critically examined the institutional process implemented to date. The workshop also focused on the need to continue contributing together and designing strategies to achieve future objectives within the framework of public management oriented toward achieving positive results for the well-being of individuals and the development of the country. Strategic Budget Pillars: The Institutional Strategic Budget Plan has three strategic pillars: Efficient Management of the Dominican Budgetary System, Budgetary Transparency and Social Control, and finally, Organizational Strengthening and Development. The Plan's review is based on periodic monitoring of its implementation through multidisciplinary meetings that include the analysis and examination of the goals, products, and strategic indicators designed during the plan's conception. The proposal objectively represents a genuine expression of Digepres' interest in promoting its institutional strengthening, in line with the organization's mission, vision, and purposes.