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Strengthening the Amazon Initiative Consortium (AI) to address the need for sustainable resource use systems in the Amazon The developmental objective (DO) is to strengthen the capacity of the Amazon Initiative Consortium (AI) to develop mechanisms and tools for sharing knowledge on institutional innovations that promote sustainable resource use and management among the Amazon basin-based research and development institutions.  Achieving the DO would lead to: (a) enhancing local competence to implement strategies that minimize the impact of conversion of forest to other land uses; (b) strengthening existing national institutional capabilities related to agriculture, forestry, and agro-forestry while integrating the work of the research and academic institutions and target producer groups; and (c) improving the design, implementation, and mainstreaming of regional programs aimed at sustainable use of natural resources in the Amazon basin. Project is designed with two technical components and one administrative component: (a) Capacity building and the sharing of data and knowledge for collaborative research in the Amazon Basin and (b) Amazon livelihoods baseline approach and (c) Audits of the project. tool kits for sharing knowledge on institutional innovations that promote sustainable resource use and management among the Amazon Achieving the DO would lead to: (a) enhancing local competence to implement strategies that minimize the impact of conversion of forest to other land uses; (b) strengthening existing national institutional capabilities related to agriculture, forestry, and agro-forestry while integrating the work of the research and academic institutions and target producer groups; and (c) improving the design, implementation, and mainstreaming of regional programs aimed at sustainable use of natural resources in the Amazon basin.
Enhancing the Quality of Accounting Practice in Nigeria Supervision of IDF Grant - NIGERIA: Enhancing the Quality of the Accounting Practice
Development of Legal Foundation for Vietnam's Banking System The proposed IDF grant will support the State Bank of Vietnam to strengthen its capacity in legal reforms in Vietnam's banking sector through the development of a conceptual framework for the preparation and finalization of two basic banking laws and of a leagl reform strategy.  The grant supported project would have three components: Preparation of New Laws on SBV and Credit Institutions, Development of Legal Reform Strategy and Knowledge Creation and Sharing. The expected main outcomes include: (i) a basic legal foundation that would take Vietnam's banking sector closer to international practices as indicated by the consultation-ready drafts of the new laws; and (ii) a comprehensive legal reform strategy that would clearly state the objectives, priorities and sequencing of the development and strengthening of the legal and regulatory framework for the banking sector as indicated by the finalization of such a strategy.
Strengthening Institutional Capacity for One Health Strategic Planning and Economic Analysis The Government of Turkey has requested Bank assistance to develop a national animal health plan together with an economic analysis of the cost of zoonotic and other animal diseases.  An IDF grant in the amount of $462,500 is requested to provide technical assistance and expertise to assist in the preparation of the plan and the economic assessment. This work would be carried out concurrently with a substantial programmatic technical assistance initiative related to food safety.  The IDF grant would be complementary to the food safety TA, and the respective results will be harmonized to provide a comprehensive review and operational guidelines to address animal health and related public health and food safety risks in Turkey.  TF098646 The Development Objective of Grant is to build Government capacity through the application of analytical tools and processes that provide guidance for the improvement of planning and decision-making related to animal health services and public health systems.  The specific areas of focus will include: (i) formulation of a strategic plan for upgrading the veterinary services to meet EU pre-accession requirements through close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), (ii) identification of key technical, knowledge and institutional gaps in the public health system and prepare a strategic plan for reform related to zoonotic diseases jointly with the Ministry of Health (MOH), (iii) provision of capacity building  to produce an economic analysis of the impact of zoonotic diseases on people, trade and the national economy and to provide for advocacy and risk communication. This will enable decision-makers to more effectively formulate policy reforms and identify targeted investments.
Cap. build. PRSP/NGPES priority areas To improve the effectiveness of CPI and MOF budget planning processes, the IDF funds will help develop a capacity building plan followed by a capacity building process designed for civil servants involved in planning and budgeting operations at the central and local levels of the Government. As a result, this plan should be able to (i) assist CPI and MOF in having the NGPES costing results incorporated in the new 5 year plan (the plan will be passed for approval to the National Assembly in April 2006); (ii) help the sectors to have their plans implemented and (iii) further refine and consolidate the dialogue in the planning and budget process started this year between MOF, CPI, line ministries and local authorities in the preparation of the budget for FY 2006-07. 1.1   The purpose of the Grant is to assist the Recipient in strengthening the carrying out of its planning and budgeting process. The activities (the Activities) for which the Grant is given are as follows: (a)   Develop a Capacity Building Plan including the design of a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paprer (PRSP) costing and prioritization tool to allow Ministries to plan their budget needs for the following fiscal year, (b)   Test the PRSP costing and prioritization tool in selected agencies, (c) Conduct training of trainers on the use of the PRSP costing and prioritization tool and carry out the implementation of the training.
Enhancing Policy Making and Implementation Capacity in Social Protection The grant will support capacity development activities in three main  areas of social protection:  (i) social safety nets; (ii) active labor market policy; and (iii) pension reform.  Activities include: 1. surveys to assess the effectiveness of NGOs and CBOs in providing safety nets; 2. Developing data module to complement the national HIES to assess socioeconomic risks and responses of households 3. Tracer study on vocational and technical training graduates 4. Baseline survey on existing pension system 5. TA to MOSAL and SPC staff on SP policies, analysis, diagnosis 6. Training to support MOSAL and SPC 7. Project coordination and support activities Grant period for 2 years, from July 2006 through July 2008. To enhance the capacity of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to analyze and improve implementation of social protection policies and programs.  Capacity development activities are supported in two areas of social protection: (i) social safety nets; and (ii) pension reform.
Consolidation & Strengthening of the Mexican Office for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Strengthening the Regulatory Regime for NGOs Strengthening the regulatory regime for NGOs.  Assist the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in  implementing the law regulating NGOs in Yemen
Monitoring and Evaluations for Policymaking The purpose of the IDF is to build the institutional and human  resources capacity in the Center of Government (General Secretariat of the Government)to monitor and evaluate public policies. The project has two main components. Under the first coomponent, a monitoring and evaluation system will be developed at the General Secretariat of the Government to better articulate linkages between stragegic planning, sectoral policies and the available budget resources. Under the second component,capacity building for monitoring and evaluation in the Center of Government and line ministries is built, through modular training programs and knowledge transfers. TF098645 The objective of the IDF is to build the institutional and human resources capacity of the Center of Government (General Secretariat of the Government) to monitor and evaluate public policies.
Institutionalizing Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation in OECS countries in the CARICOM Region Background The FY06 OECS CAS included as intermediate indicators in key areas - such as improving the efficiency of the delivery of public services, improving the quality of social protection programs and mitigating vulnerability to natural disasters - the need to obtain baseline data and a solid system of monitoring and evaluation to improve public sector performance. In addition, the OECS CEM (FY05) stated the need of increasing M&E efforts and carrying out rigorous impact evaluations of programs in order to analyze to improve the value of government's resources. This proposal has been prepared in coordination with CARICAD and is supported by the CMU. Objective Lack of performance information about public programs and projects prevents effective and efficient management of public resources. A first step to solve the problem will be to generate and make accessible performance information to decision makers. Higher-order outcome: Increase the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of public programs and projects in the OECS members of CARICOM. Intermediate outcome: Performance information from priority public programs and projects is available to decision makers in OECS countries in CARICOM. The long term objective of the proposed IDF is to increase the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of public programs and projects in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The intermediate objective is to make performance information from priority public programs and projects available to decision makers and to create capacity within Member States to both generate and use this performance information.
OECS-IDF Grant for MECOVI (TF052613) IDF Grant to support the OECS Secretariat and Bank's Borrowing member countries in the Eastern Carribean Region to improve the surveys of living conditions and poverty data.  TO ASSIST THE SECRETARIAT OF THE OECS (ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES) IN ITS EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN THE INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF THE STATISTICAL OFFICES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF ST.KITTS AND NEVIS, ST. LUCIA AND THE GRENADINES, GRENADA AND DOMINICA TO PLAN AND CARRY OUT HOUSEHOLD SURVEY WORK.
Ghana PAC Capacity Building Project The primary objective of this IDF is to strengthen the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Parliament of Ghana in its financial oversight role through capacity building, public outreach and advocacy.#  Ghana's Parliament has as part of its functions the approval of budget estimates for Ministries, Municipalities, Departments and Agencies (MMDAs), sub-vented agencies and state enterprises as well as approving loans and grants for the country. Parliament exercises its oversight role on the use of these public funds through the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). This twenty-five man committee thoroughly reviews the audit report of the Auditor General of the Ghana Audit Service (Ghana's Supreme Audit Institution) on the audited financial statements of the MMDAs and other state enterprises. Following this review, public hearings are organized at which heads of these institutions are invited and made to answer questions on the key audit findings in their respective institutions.# The activities of the PAC have generated a lot of public interest and are expected to significantly improve financial accountability and transparency within Ghana's public financial management system. This project seeks to strengthen the PAC as part of the Bank's ongoing work in the area of improving corporate governance and PFM in Ghana. TF099406 The development objectives of this grant are to: (i) assist the PAC to review backlog of outstanding audit reports (ii)train members of district level Audit Report Implementation Committees (ARICs) , and (iii) make PAC review findings publicly accessible on a dedicated PAC website.
Peru National Results Based Monitoring, Evaluation and Information Improving Peru's Institutional Capacity and Building a National Results Based Monitoring, Evaluation and Information System for Social Programs. The IDF grant will help the Government design and launch an integrated M&E and Information system. 1. Strengthen the evaluation process in key Institutions. The goal is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the institutions currently carrying out some level of nation-wide monitoring to conduct improved evaluation process, including government-civil society interactions and the contracting of independent technical evaluation institutions. 2. Focus on program themes and outcomes instead of specific program characteristics. Due to the scope, size and focus of the existing programs, a small subset of programs with similar aims will be chosen as the object of a pilot evaluation. 3. Create an integrated multi-year framework for evaluation. By establishing multi-year evaluation contracts with independent agencies, incentives will be provided to the best academic and research institutions to participate in the evaluation process. 4. Make the system transparent and accessible. The integrated M&E and Information system aims at improving efficiency and transparency in the use of public social funds. To enhance transparency, information from the evaluations will be publicly disseminated, thereby not only fostering transparency but also enhancing governmental accountability. Provide support to develop processes and mechanisms for continuous and systematic evaluation and improvement of antipoverty interventions by: (i) strengthening the existing institutional framework to facilitate the systematic use of existing information systems and analyses of the effectiveness of antipoverty interventions in Peru; (ii) providing technical assistance and enhancing local capacity for the design and evaluation of specific programs; and (iii) supporting initial pilots in selected regions and programs to validate the use of the mechanism for systemic evaluation which will later be extended nation-wide to all social programs in all regions.
PERU Creation of a National Strategic Planning Function Grant to support the creation and design of a strategic planning function.
Improved Management and Transparency of Mining Sector The overall objective of the activity is to build capacity of the Guinean Government and key stakeholders to improve governance and transparency in the management of the country's mineral resources in a participatory way. This would be achieved through the strengthening of Government's ability to negotiate stable and fair investment agreements, that contribute to economic development at the national, regional and local levels; and through the development of a sound and transparent revenue management framework. This would contribute to a better distribution of benefits among the Guinean population and would help in the fight against poverty. transparency in the management of the country#s mineral resources in a participatory way. This would be achieved through the strengthening of Government#s ability to negotiate stable and fair investment agreements that contribute to economic development at the national, regional and local levels; and through the development of a sound and transparent revenue management framework.  This would contribute to a better distribution of benefits among the Guinean population and would help in the fight against poverty.
Pacific Regional Audit Initiative (PRIA) The overall objective of the Pacific Regional Audit Initiative (PRAI) is to raise Pacific public auditing to uniformly-higher standards, which in turn is expected to improve transparency and accountability in managing and using public resources. Twenty two SAIs out of the 25 the Pacific Region SAIs will be the participants and beneficiaries of this initiative.  It is intended that by end 2012, 80% of participating SAIs will be at level 3 on the PASAI capability model.  The overall objective of the Pacific Regional Audit Initiative (PRAI) is to raise Pacific public auditing practices to uniformly-higher standards, which in turn is expected to improve transparency and accountability in managing and using public resources. Twenty two SAIs out of the 26 the Pacific Region SAIs will be the participants and beneficiaries of this initiative.  It is intended that by end 2012, 80% of participating SAIs will be at level 3 on the PASAI capability model.  The Pacific Regional Audit Initiative (PRAI) is a Pacific Plan initiative. The 26-member Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) developed the PRAI design through an extensive two-year consultation process. In April 2008, the PASAI Congress held in Rarotonga, Cook Islands unanimously confirmed the PRAI design and the 2008 meeting of Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders endorsed the initiative.  The success of this initiative will be measured by movements in relevant Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) performance indicators. Likewise, the project purpose is for public accounts of Pacific Island countries to be audited in a timely manner to uniformly-high standards, with enhanced audit impacts and improved audit capability. This will be measured by the timeliness of public accounts audits and the strengthening of Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) capacity as measured by the PASAI Capability Model. The activities supported by the IDF will contribute to a larger program for knowledge sharing and dissemination supported by ADB and otehr donors.
Strenghening Results-based M&E  for better migration management This task will enable the Government of Tajikistan in improving the labor and migration management practices in Tajikistan. Labor migration and associated remittances contribute significantly to economic growth and poverty reduction  (making Tajistan top in the world with over 50% of the GDP in remittances) as well as provides over a million of labor migrants (30% of active labor force) and their households (over 50%) with an important social protection mechanism. The country has developed and is in the process of adopting a new Legal framework to manage labor migration as well as a corresponding Labor migration strategy and an Action plan. The Bank was instrumental in this undertaking. As a result, the government has revitalized the work of the Interministerial migration commission as well as created an autonomous Migration Agency with a mandate to oversee and provide overall guidance and policy framework to improve labor migration management system. In this context, an IDF supported results-based M&E will help the new Agency fulfill this mandate effectively.  TF098648 The key development objective of the IDF is to develop and strengthen the capacity of the Government of Tajikistan and a newly created Migration Agency under the Government in monitoring and evaluation of migration-related policies and interventions (both government and donor). Specifically, this will contribute to the overall improvement of national planning and decision making in the area of labor migration management.  Secondary objective of the IDF is to help create an operational results-based M&E system based on (i) solid data flows; (ii) sustainable capacity building activities; (iii) regional dialogue and (iv) supporting implementation of short and medium term actions aimed at improving labor management systems.
Strengthening Institutional Capacity of the Public Procurement Monitoring Office Institutional Strengthening of the Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) to support the implementation of the recently passed Nepal Public Procurement Act 2007. Development Objective To promote good governance and public service delivery through supporting public procurement reforms to enhance the quality of procurement outcomes in terms of: higher volumes, efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and better value for money. Link to CAS and/or ESW (core diagnostics, e.g., CPAR, CFAA, PER, CEM, etc.), and relationship to Bank operations : According to the 2004 CAS, Nepal will have to undertake a number of governance reforms in order to stimulate a more pro-poor and inclusive growth process. The CAS stresses the significance of capacity building efforts in improving governance, and the role of efficient public procurement in the economy.  As recommended by the CPAR 2002, the Government of Nepal enacted a Public Procurement Law in 2007 along with Public Procurement Regulations, 2007. It is essential that these laws and regulations be fully implemented since the most recent assessment of the Nepal Public Financial Management System, the Public Financial Management Sector Work recently carried out jointly by the Government of Nepal and the World Bank, found once again that procurement performance remains a very significant issues and achieved a low rating (C) for value of money and controls in procurement.  The Government has a huge challenge to ensure effective implementation of the Law, and the Bank needs to continue its support and engagement in this sector. Work to implement the Procurement Law is completely in concert with the governance initiative as envisioned in the updated CAS 2007. To assist Government in preparing a strategy for and initiating actions to implement the public procurement law so as to enhance the quality of procurement outcomes in terms of: higher volumes, efficiency, optimum budget utilisation, effectiveness, transparency and better value for money which would lead to better governance and improved public service delivery.
IGAD Secretariat - Regional Economic Integration & Institutional Strengthening The objective of this IDF grant is to support the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to enhance the capacity of its Secretariat to implement it's Minimum Integration Plan which is designed to facilitate closer regional cooperation and economic integration amongst IGAD member states.  The objective of this IDF grant is to support the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to:  To enhance the capacity of the Secretariat of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to implement it#s Minimum Integration Plan designed to facilitate closer regional cooperation and economic integration amongst its member states.
Mexico Institutional Strengthening of Congress - Phase II This is an Institutional Development Fund to support a second phase program of reforms to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Mexican Federal Congress. The overall objective of this IDF is to contribute to the strengthening of the institutional capacity of the Mexican Congress.  For this, the IDF aims at: i) systematizing legislative information under a knowledge management approach, ii) reinforcing the technical capacity of congress to generate, analyze and discuss information during the different stages of the budgetary cycle, and iii) automatization of the human resource processes.  As follow up to the first IDF grant provided to the Lower House of Representatives of Mexico, the overall objective of this IDF is to contribute to the strengthening of the institutional capacity of the Mexican Congress by supporting a second phase of internal reforms. For this purpose, the IDF aims at: i) systematizing legislative information under a knowledge management approach, ii) reinforcing the technical capacity of Congress to generate, analyze and discuss information during the different stages of the budgetary cycle, and iii) automate the human resource procedures.