1) BASIC INFORMATION

• Website: http://www.camaradediputados.gob.do/
• Founded: 2009
• Official Title: Office for the Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Budget (Spanish acronym = OASEP)
• Mandate: Speaker, Chamber of Deputies (the legislature)
• Primary Functions:
  • Analyze budget proosals of the executive branch
  • Make baseline estimates of revenues and expenditures
  • Analzye the impacts of proposed and actual tax policies
  • Conduct evaluation of programs or agencies in connection budget approval and accountability
  • Conduct cost-benefit analyses of both executive and legislative policy proposals

2) GN-PBO CONTACT PERSON

• Name: Ms. Sorangel González Díaz
• Title: Economic Consultant of the Parliamentary Budget Office (OASEP), Chamber of Deputies Budget Office
• Email Address: sorangelgonzalez07@gmail.com
• e-PBO Profile: http://www.e-pbo.org/memberprofile/187

​3) ACTION PLANS

4) MAIN CHALLENGES

1. The PBO employs only two permanent staff serving 190 MPs requesting information on the Executive spending. More technical and administrative staff would increase the efficiency of the Office.
2. Due to the upcoming 2016 Congressional and Presidential elections, the MPs coming from the ruling party and are less involved in evaluating the government spending.