%0 Journal Article %T Monitoring and evaluation as tools for enhancing public expenditure management in Ukraine %A Sergii Slukhai %J Financial Theory and Practice %D 2011 %I Institute of Public Finance %X There are reasons to think that key elements of a performance-based budgeting methodology have already become a part of the mechanism for public expenditure management in Ukraine. At the same time, there still remains the issue of linking budget expenditures to the specifi c results achieved by specific budget programs. This defines the necessity of applying modern approaches to managing monitoring and evaluation (M&E). This study presents an analysis of the current state of M&E in Ukrainian public expenditure program management and offers some solutions which could improve its utilization. %K performance-based budgeting %K monitoring %K evaluation %K budget program %K major spending unit %K state special-purpose program %K Ukraine %U http://www.ijf.hr/eng/FTP/2011/2/slukhai.pdf