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Corporate Governance and Interim BP for Air Afrique The objectives of the IDF grant will be to : (a) support the regional integration effort; (b) help enhance regional economic competitiveness; and (c) provide linkages to global markets.  The purpose of the grant will be to assist the 11 Air Afrique member states represented by Senegal to (a) reform the corproate governance that will enable a successful transformation of A/Afrique into an effective and competitive regional airline through a successful restructuring and privatization process ; and (b) formulate an interim business plan, including fleet plan, route & schedule optimization. Grant No. TF027409
Strengthening Aid Coordination & Management Capacity for Effective Monitoring of Official Dev Assistance The purpose of this IDF grant is to improve the flow, quality and timeliness of information on aid projects among the Government and donors. With the adoption of an aid management system, improvements in data sustainability, quality, and flow will foster more accurate, effective and informed planning, while facilitating better monitoring and evaluation of aid activities. At the same time, improving the quality, flow and timeliness of aid information will also lower the transaction costs associated with these inefficiencies.  As a result of the proposed improvements to data quality and sustainability, the GoB will be able to view the large majority of all aid activities, while enhancing coordination with donors. Ensuring higher quality data and more systematic, transparent flows of information on aid-on the part of the Government and donors-will lay the groundwork for more effective and informed decision-making on how to best allocate aid resources where they are needed most. As building capacity to improve the flow, quality and timeliness of aid information takes a consensus among the various stakeholders, the initial step is to strengthen existing coordination mechanisms to facilitate the dialogue leading to actual data flow. In this context, the activities to be financed under this grant will fall into three main categories: (i)   Strengthening capacity of donor coordination mechanisms (ii)  Building capacity of the data exchange systems and data quality processes (iii) Building capacity within the VIPFE technology group (iv) Improve existing aid management systems The grant will be used to finance the various components of capacity building, including: consultant services, technical support, travel for international consultants, and donor and government coordination workshops and policy seminars, as appropriate. The main development objective oof the grant is to promote development effectiveness and transparency by strengthening the capacity of the Viceministry of Public Investment and External Financing (VIFPE) to effectively coordinate and manage all ODA flows.
Health Sector M&E Capacity Building IDF The development objectives of the proposed IDF are to:  (i) enhance skills of the Ministry of Health, health sector managers, and other stakeholders in results-oriented M&E in the health sector, (ii) contribute to the development of in-country training capacity in results-oriented M&E.  Increasing the quality of M&E in the Kyrgyz Republic will contribute to greater accountability over the allocation of budget and donor funds targeted for health improvement and poverty reduction activities in the context of the recently launched sector-wide approach (SWAp). Improved M&E, inter alia, is expected to contribute to more effective implementation of the Manas Taalimi Health Sector Strategy which forms the basis of the SWAp, to enhanced linkages between the health sector strategy and the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS), and greater emphasis on reaching the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  In addition, strengthening M&E will facilitate implementation of program-based budgeting which is a key instrument to improve governance in the entire public sector. TF057893 The objectives of the Project are to: (a) enhance skills of the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Recipient, health sector managers, and other stakeholders in results-oriented monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the health sector; and (b) contribute to the development of in-country training capacity in results-oriented M&E.
Forestry Sector Institutions Reform Support Forestry is one of the main concerns of the newly elected Government of Bulgaria and is emerging as a priority in the new CPS (under preparation).  Proper management of forestry resources is especially important because of the implications for improved governance and financial management, climate change, possibilities, protection of environmental resources and provision of sustainable rural employment. Potential EU grant funding is limited and only available for private forest owners, while almost 90% of the forests in Bulgaria are state owned and EU grant funding is not available for the institutional reform in the sector. The reform has been declared a matter of urgency and priority by the new Government as Bulgarian forests have been severely damaged by mismanagement and by the inadequate institutional set up. The issue of good governance and related institutional strengthening is central to the sustainable management of forests and to providing for their public goods function. Bulgaria is GAC country and  the Bank is by far the only and the best positioned institution given previous engagement in the sector to assist with good governance in forestry. The Development Objective of the proposed IDF financing is to support Bulgaria develop cost effective and sustainable Forest Institutions that will manage the state owned forest and supervise the whole forest sector regardless of ownership in an environmentally, economically and socially sound and equitable manner. The grant to be executed by the Executive Forest Agency will support the follwoing activities: (i)  Developing a common vision and awareness raising, covering stakeholder participation, monitoring and evaluation of the refor process and the performance of the sector; (ii) Technical support for the institutional reform process, including: review of proposed chnages in the forest law; learning from examples of institutional models in the region; economic and financial analysis of different institutional reform proposals; and analysis of the state timber marketing systems; and(iii) Capacity building and training, including study tours, and training of key forest staff to manage/support the new forest institituons in the country. TF096228 The development objective is to provide stand alone technical support to the Bulgarian Executive Forestry Agency to help finalize the ongoing institutional re-organization and train key staff to enhance management of the country's forests, and improve service delivery (e.g., timber and non-timber product marketing; fuelwood and non timber forest products for communities; and extension, conservation and environmental services).  The development objective is to provide stand alone technical support to the Bulgarian Executive Forestry Agency to help finalize
HT - Improving Health Surveillance Capacity Building of Ministry of Health on Health Surveillance The IDF grant would specifically support building capacity for system expansion (in content and geographically), including by  (i) training trainers and 300 MOH staff on health surveillance;  (ii) piloting a sub-national approach to strengthen disease surveillance; and  (iii) developing a health surveillance strategy and action plan that would allow for scaling up capacity building for this essential public health function after grant closing.
Strengthening Policymaking & Analysis in the Ministry of Social Protection IDF Grant
Strengthening Public Procurement Further to the Guinea CPAR update, and the request of the Government an IDF serial grant is being prepared to finance very specific activities under the CPAR update action plan .
Strengthening Workplace Protection and Social Services for Migrant Laborers in the Urban Construction Sector This grant assists the Ministry of Construction in strengthening legal rights and working conditions for migrant workers employed in urban construction. The grant also includes support for training and capacity-building within the Ministry of Construction . The Ministry of Construction (MOC) to promote protection of workers' rights and provision of adequate social services on behalf of migrant laborers, and to strengthen MOC's own urban construction management and monitoring capacity. In addition to improving the living and working conditions of migrants in urban construction, this program also would contribute to the kinds of administrative and regulatory reform essential to effective governance in a market economy.
Strengthening Implementation of Public Procurement Law IDF Grant Strengthening of Implementation of Public procurement Law in Azerbaijan: Training, Monitoring and  Evaluation Comments: 5/6/2003:  Not yet effective .......
Bangladesh - Strengthening GOB's FM capacity and building institutional capacity of the office of the controller and Auditor General IDF grant for strenghtening GoB's Financial Management Capacity and Building Capacity of the office of the Controller and Auditor General: Grant No. TF052490 Grant Amount: 450,000 BB Budget: 20,000
Improving Usage of Socio-Economic Statistics for Economic Policy Making in Georgia IDF Grant The Government is now finalizing its Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth Program (PREGP), which identifies a wide range of strategic goals.  The three main building blocks to put in place to achieve a real reduction in poverty as set out in the PREGP are Â“fast and sustainable economic growth; creation of jobs in the legal sector of the economy; and effective and fair distribution of the resources created in the country.Â” To be able to monitor and evaluate the progress, the statistical capacities of the government are to be strengthened.  At present the instruments and methodologies to produce timely, accurate, and reliable socio-economic data for economic policy design, implementation monitoring, and outcome evaluation are weak, with one of the most uncertain data areas being the national accounts. Undercoverage, underreporting, poor price statistics, etc. affect the quality of GDP estimates, both at current and constant prices, especially at quarterly level and by final consumption categories, thus misleading decision-making in economic policy and evaluation.  A long-term methodology for estimating main macro aggregates in a situation of incomplete information should be developed and applied, which would use all available information for checks on completeness and continuity, as well as appropriate methods for scaling/adjustment. Objectives: 1) Increase satisfaction and usage information provided by SDS to targeted institutional agencies (chief among them the Ministry of Finance) by improving SDS understanding of information for results-based public administration, institutional linkages between SDS and other ministries, and users incentives and capacity to use statistical information.   2) Improve SDS efficiency and performance in the compilation of the National Accounts aggregates in two major areas: (i) final consumption estimates, especially those of households; (ii) quarterly GDP estimates at current and constant prices; and in its publicizing/reporting of results through internet tools.
Strengthening the Accounting Capacity of the State-Owned Commercial Banks (SOCBs) The proposed project would assist the SOCBs to apply the IFRS in general, and in particular apply international accounting practices in areas such as loan loss provision, interest accrual, and cash flow statements.  The proposed project is intended to build upon the recommendations from the ASEM grant which was closed in Aug. 2006 . Assist the State-owned Commercial Banks (SOCBs) in implementing the new Chart of Accounts (as per State Bank of Vietnam Decision 479) and International Financial and Reporting Standards (IFRS) and support the development framework for good governance in the financial sector.
Serbia Asset Registry The proposed IDF grant would support the government's agenda by allowing the Property Directorate to investigate good practices in countries with similar central asset  registers, specifically France and Sweden, and provide professional and technical advice and support to redesign processes and practices that are more in line with best practices in asset records management. TF093849 The grant will improve the quality, comprehensiveness and transparency of financial information on tangible assets for the Republic of Serbia (RoS). Tangible assets records maintained by the Property Directorate include land, buildings, vehicles, equipment, furniture and fittings and other material movable and immovable property. As a consequence, it will provide a strong foundation for better management of, and accountability for, non-financial assets at all levels of government.
Breaching the Justice Gap in Brazil through CNJ The proposed IDF Grant is designed to strengthen the capacity of the Brazil's National Council for Justice (Conselho Nacional de Justica - CNJ) to promote geographic equality and contribute to reduce the gaps existing between the judiciaries of the most advanced states and the poorest states in Brazil by improving thequalitiy of public spending in three to five pilot states in which the deficiencies of the judiciary are more acute.  3/23/11 MHiggins (LEGRA): "Responsible" unit is LCC5C in FY11 to allow Brazil CMU to fund estimated $7500 in STC costs. Responsible unit will become LEGLA in FY12 (with LCC5C as requesting unit). Initial budget of $40,000 is proposed for FY12 WPA. IDF committee has waitlisted project for IDF grant funding (following CN & project approval), with effectiveness currently expected in FY12.
Inclusive Governance of Senegal River Basin The objective of this IDF grant will be to move forward and identify ways through a cooperative legal framework will be established to facilitate the joint and inclusive governance of the shared water resource - the Senegal river. The present project facilitates the establisment of a common, inclusive platform for legal dialogue and exchange between the riparian countries with the overall aim being enhanced governance and management of the river through a basin organization which will include all four riparian nations. NB : this AIS is created in advance before the grant approval in order to benefit from the BB budget which is already allocated.
Capacity Building for Evidence Based Policy Making in Education and Health Sectors in the OECS The objective of the IDF grant is to develop capacity for evidence-based policy making in the education sector and health sector in the OECS countries (St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines).  The OECS region suffers severely from lack of updated, reliable data for decision making in the social sectors, particularly in education and health.  Management information systems are of questionable quality and there are no mechanisms to crosscheck what data exists.  While there have been efforts to improve availability of data, there are problems with the quality of information and there is very limited use of data to inform policy decisions.  The lack of reliable and timely information hampers efforts to improve outcomes in education and health. The OECS Secretariat's Social and Sustainable Development Division (SSDD), together with sectoral policy-makers in member countries, is now engaged in strengthening the use of evidence in policy making.  A recent paper presented by the OECS Secretariat and endorsed by the OECS Head of Government "Towards a New OECS Education Development Agenda" emphasizes evidence-based policy making in education, and similar efforts are underway in health. However, the capacity to achieve this is lacking, and the stakeholders-both within the OECS and at the country level-have requested technical support. The proposed grant will help to improve the availability and use of statistical data and statistical skills on a sustainable basis at both country level and in the OECS Secretariat.  The proposed activities will build OECS countries' capacity in data collection and analysis for policy making in education and health.  Teams from the ministries of education and health, as well as corresponding units at the OECS Secretariat, will be taken through a full cycle of evidence-based policy making at the end of which they will have developed capacity to collect, analyze and interpret data for use in improvement of their programs.  The OECS is mandated to coordinate education and health activities, including development of regional strategies in these two sectors, and will therefore coordinate this work. IDF funds will be used to provide technical assistance for training and guidance at different stages of this process.  The process will involve identifying policy learning needs, hands-on training, and use of the results to feed back into the policy making process. four OECS countries (St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines).
Strengthening and improving the performance of the public procurement system In order to improve government efficiency there is a need to link Procurement and Budget Execution, as this is the cornerstone of an efficient public finance management system, this link is critical to good government management. The processes to implement effectively public services and execute capital expenditure spending need the concurrency of different functions to sustain investment plans, specifically planning, budget execution and procurement processes efficiency have an effect on the overall government performance. The key objective of this grant is to assist the government of Costa Rica, though the Regulatory Body, to implement the National Procurement Plan (Estrategia para la modernizaciÃ³n de las adquisiciones pÃºblicas para aumentar su beneficio a los ciudadanos). The plan's objectives are to modernise the public procurement system in order to benefit the countries citizens. The National procurement plan has identified 10 key areas of strategic importance and will develop several activities required to achieved the key objectives, this grant will support the design and implementation of those activities and specifically assist in the implementation of some of the priority actions. (more specific) Implementing a functional procurement system to ensure efficient and effective use of money is a key element to enhance government efficiency.  The processes to effectively implement public services and execute capital expenditure spending need the concurrency of different functions to sustain investment plans, i.e. an efficient planning and budget execution; reliable procurement processes and proficient contract management system.  The key objective of this IDF grant is to assist the government of Costa Rica, though the Procurement Regulatory Body, to implement identified key components of the National Procurement Plan (Estrategia para la modernizacion de las adquisiciones publicas para aumentar su beneficio a los ciudadanos). This plan#s overall objective is to modernize the public procurement system as a way to streamline public administration and increase the efficiency of public spending.  The National procurement plan has identified nine key areas of strategic importance for the modernisation of the National Procurement system, the National Strategy was developed under the leadership of the DGABCA and involved stakeholders from the private sector, civil society, government buyers as well as comptroller#s office. The nine strategic areas were identified as they key cornerstones of the reform process. The next stage of the reform process is the development of the activities required to achieve the key objectives. This IDF grant will support the design and implementation of selected activities, based on a prioritisation process carried out by the DGABCA in consultation with Hacienda, this process will identify the specific activities that will be implemented as a result of this grant.
Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (1) Support of for ENSAP Management Organize and conduct workshops to develop business plans for ENTRO, including an annual work program and budget to manange, coordinate and monitor ENSAP activities. Review legal options and requirements to facilitate the estbalishment of a financial mechanism to receive and administer project preparation funds and establishment of the same mechanism. Establish system and standards for financial management, procurement, and project preparation and management. Establish mechanisms for and provide outreach, communication, and networking with donors and other partners. Identify ENTRO staffing needs and establish processes to recruit staff. Develop and implement an institutional training and development plan to meet the long term needs of the ENTRO and national focal points. (2) Management and coordination of project preparation Develop a work program, using small working groups to develop budgets and schedules, to manage and coordinate project preparation activities and ensure the proper sequencing of activities. Provide on-the-job training and continuous skills improvement in logistics, technical, administrative support in the preparation and execution of the consultation plan to ensure stakeholder participation in the process. Develope a planning framework and process(using workshops and working groups) for the sub-projects. Establish a mechanism (using workshops and working groups) to develop strategies; prepare and submit for approval approaches for prioritizing and integrating subprojects within the framework of the regional, integrated multi-purpose program. Establish mechanisms and processes to assess socio-economic, technical, environmental, and financial viability of sub-projects and extent of integration of sub-projects within the overall regional, multi-purpose development prespective. Establish mechanisms and works processes to develop and provide options for integration and bundling of sub-projects for win-win for submission to ENSAPT and ENCOM.
Strengthening of fiscal control through improved citizen participation and SAI's institutional capacities The grant would continue the Bank's support to the Central American Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OCCEFS), building up on its successful ongoing partnership, while recognizing the inherent long term/continuous improvement nature of public financial accountability reforms. The grant would have two development objectives: (i) to strengthen the capacity of OCCEFS members to construct more effective partnerships with civil society organizations on financial accountability matters; and (ii) to strengthen the capacity of OCCEFS members to develop auditor certifications, prepare sectoral studies, and improve the impact of their work with the legislative branch. These objectives would be met by taking advantage of economies of scale in the regional production of adaptable common tools. The grant development objective is to strengthen the capacity of OCCEFS (OrganizaciÃ³n Centroamericana y del Caribe de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores) members to construct more effective partnerships with civil society organizations on financial accountability matters. The objective would be met by taking advantage of economies of scale in the regional production of adaptable common tools.
Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Saftety Nets in Bangladesh Support for strengthening monitoring and evaluation of social safety nets to reduce leakage in the main targeted food assistance programs in Bangladesh.