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BR Sao Paulo Municipal Government (PMSP) Capacity Building for M&E The project will support the building up of the M&E system at the municipal government of SÃ£o Paulo city. The system will be hosted at the municipal Planning Secretariat and will integrate line secretaries.  The development objective of this IDF project is to enable the Municipal Government of Sao Paulo (PMSP- Prefeitura Municipal de Sao Paulo), through the Municipal Secretariat of Planning (SEMPLA- Secretaria Municipal de Planejamento), to strengthen the planning capacity of Sao Paulo municipal government. In particular, it aims at developing an integrated system for the management of municipal expenditure programs including economic and urban planning, budget execution, monitoring and evaluation in order to improve the quality of its infra-structure, economic and social programs.
Building a Results-Based M&E System for a Decentralized MAEP Administration Summary of proposed activities to be funded by the IDF Grant 1a. Assessing MAEP needs and readiness to M&E This component includes a review of MAEP's current capacity to monitor and evaluated, and will help identify any gaps in capacity needed to build and sustain a results-based M&E system. 1b. Building the capacity of the M&E Leadership Team and the DPP The purpose of this component is to conduct a series of workshops which will help to achieve this goal. It will focus on knowledge sharing wiht international practitioners, as well as on case studies. 1c. Developing a results-based M&E toolkit The purpose of this component is to develop a toolkit which will provide the knowledge base and guidance to the actors that will be implementing the M&E system. 2a. Selecting the key parameters for a results-based M&E system in MAEP This component consists of a number of guided consultations with the Leadership Team to finalize the key building blocks of the M&E system. 2b-2c. Applying MAEP's newly developed results-based M&E system This component involves integrating the theorical framework developed under 2a. in a computer-based environment in order to facilitate the continuous process of M&E and to operationalize the corresponding management information system. 3a-3c. Sustaining and scaling-up MAEP's results-based M&E system This component will ensure that the results-based M&E developed in maintained and implemented beyond the lifetime of the project. The purpose of the grant is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries (MAEP) to develop and apply a results-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, in order to:(i) help strengthen MAEP's institutional performance in the context of a decentralized administration; and (ii) increase the contribution of the agricultural sector to the achievements of the PRSP objectives.
Strenghtening institutional capacity of the Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF) to improve results oriented M&E (BF) The objective of the grant is to strengthen DGCOOP's institutional  capacity to improve the results-based monitoring and evaluation  of externally financed projects and programs in Burkina Faso. The objective of the grant is to establish a clear M&E framework in the Minister of Economy and Finance supported by operational guidelines, as well as a standardized system of regular and ongoing M&E training.
MN-IMPROVEMENT EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT *$7k authorized by EACSM for trust fund administration in FY04*  This grant is to assist GOM in building on achievements to date by implementing a comprehensive program to enhance the efficiency and transparency of public procurement, including an initial high impact procurement training program and a sustainable training program for the long term.   The ADB is currently considering a TA grant to support the IDF.s objectives.   Components to be financed by ADB and IDF grant are as follows: (a)   Strengthening Institutional Aspects of Procurement. (WB) .   Detailed study of the respective roles of government agencies involved in procurement at central, provincial, and district levels, including their legal responsibilities. .   ,,Development of job description for Public Procurement and Coordination Division (PPCD) and each agency involved in procurement. .   Study tour for senior staff of PPCD to East European Countries who have moved from  command type procurement to competitive bidding. (b)   Improving Workability of the Existing Law and Guidelines. (WB) .   Detailed review of the procurement law and guidelines relative to current country and international experience and prepare recommendations for those areas where amendments will improve procurement. (c)   Strengthening Procurement Training. (ADB) .   Design and assist with the implementation, a practical, high impact, country-wide procurement training program for government staff and selected private sector representatives. .   ,,Investigate and prepare designs for an institutionalized procurement training facility, provide training materials and assist in the delivery of the initial program. (d)   Improving Consistency of Tax Application on IFI-Funded Projects. (WB) .   Study existing tax laws and regulations and define the current problems of inconsistency in their application. .   As seem appropriate, prepare proposed amendments to the concerned laws and procedural regulations to clarify how taxation is to be applied to grant and credit-funded projects. (e)   Increasing Effective use of the Procurement Policy and Coordination Division. (WB) .   Review the status of the existing data base and design and implement required changes so that the data base can be used effectively. -   ,,Design training for project implementation staff in the use of the database for individual project monitoring and incorporate into the overall training program under activity (c) above.
MECOVI The IDF will finance INE's program for improvement of the surveys of living conditions (ISLC/MECOVI).
Building Government Capacity to Implement Government Financial Management Information System (GFMIS) The main objective of the Grant is to assist the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MOFE) of the Republic of Armenia in implementing its plan to introduce a Government Financial Management Information System (GFMIS). More specifically, support will be provided for: i) developing detailed technical requirements and bid documents; ii) updating implementation strategy; and iii) organizing workshops and training to appropriately reflect user needs in technical specifications and to strengthen capacity of those responsible for procuring the GFMIS.  The functional requirements and implementation strategy (a roadmap) for the GFMIS compatible with IMF standards have been developed through an IDF Grant(P081668). The GFMIS will cover the following key Public Financial Management functions: (a) tools for macro economic forecasting; (b) budget planning and preparation module; (c) budget execution (core treasury system) module; (d) support for auditing; (e) HR Management (linked to external centralized system); (f) e-Procurement (linked to external centralized system); and (g) Financial Management Information System. This proposal is intended to build on the achievements of the previous IDF grant to establish solid base and momentum for continued reform in Armenia. The objective of the Grant is consistent with CAS objectives. The CAS for 2004-2008 (June 30, 2004) builds on a strong track record on economic management and reform since the mid-90s and is based on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) developed in a participatory manner. The key thrust of the CAS remains intact in the CAS Progress Report (February 9, 2007). Improving public sector services is a key area in the CAS to achieve one of its focus areas, promotion of private sector led economic growth. Successful implementation of the GFMIS will help enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of government's financial management. The Grant is also expected to complement ongoing IDA support in the public sector through the Public Sector Moderniza tion Project (PSMP). This system would support the Government's initial efforts in the PSMP financed design and development of an e-procurement system, and would stabilize and link e-tendering and e-purchasing to the budget execution system, as well as support the payroll and planning functions of the HRMIS. TF090559 The main objectives of the Grant are to formulate appropriate strategy and strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MOFE) of the Republic of Armenia for implementing a Government Financial Management Information System (GFMIS).
Legal Services for Development and International Finance To Strengthen the capacity of Vietnamâ€™s Ministry of Justice in providing efficient legal services to government agencies in the area of development finance
Karnataka IDF PFM Capacity Building The development objectives of the PFM IDF Grant will be to (a) improve public financial management, accountability and transparency of TPs in the State of Karnataka and (b) strengthen the Karnataka State Accounts Department to improve in delivery of audit, accounts services and public financial management. The Development Objectives (DO) of the proposed IDF Grant are to (a) strengthen the Karnataka State Accounts Department (KSAD) to improve its delivery of accounting and audit services; and (b) improve public financial management, accountability and transparency of Taluk Panchayats, which are an integral part of the third tier of government in the State of Karnataka.
Support to African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) The objective of this grant is the functional establishment of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), an African-led, regional non-profit policy research and advocacy institution to be based in Accra, Ghana.  To ensure that ACET can quickly establish itself as a key player in the African development agenda and demonstrate its impact, the IDF will build on the results of Rockefeller Foundation-supported strategy and operational design work and will assist ACET to establish and test-pilot robust engagement strategies with its partners and clients and strengthen its organizational structures and capacity. To strengthen ACET's institutional capacity to provide high level policy analysis and advisory services to African governments and national think tanks to prepare long-term visions for sustained growth and transformation of African economies.
Argentina Listening to the Poor for Improving the Impact of Social Policies The objective of this proposal is to contribute to improve the impact of social policies on the poor by addressing Government.s efforts to improve institutional channels for interaction with civil society. Public demands for improved Government performance in the design and execution of social policies and for more profound civil society engagement in policy-making strike at the core of Argentina.s governance dilemmas. In order to promote civil society participation in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social policies, this IDF grant will contribute to strengthen: i) Government.s capacity to engage with grassroots organizations at the local level and ii) grassroots organizations. capacity to articulate their efforts and present their demands to Government through networks. Specifically, this IDF Grant will support CENOC in : 1.   designing and piloting a methodology to train grassroots organizations -that are part of networks- nation-wide in managerial techniques, taking into account regional socio-political contexts. Networks are the most result-oriented forms of institutional linkage among CSOs. Strong networks can contribute to improve the impact of social policies by offering the poor an institutional channel to send feedback to the Government on their performance in relation to those policies and present new demands in accordance with local realities, by ensuring poor groups. capacity to access and disseminate updated information on social programs at national, provincial and local levels, by strengthening their representation in public debates, by encouraging community-driven strategies to address poor people.s development priorities, and by promoting the civic engagement of the poor. improving and updating its database of grassroots organizations and its communications network. CENOC manages the most important database of CSOs existing in the country, used as a key tool to collect information to design adequate social policies. This database currently contains information on approximately 10310 CSOs. profiles, and consulted on a daily basis by public agencies, international organizations, researchers, universities and CSOs themselves. For a CSO to be registered in this database means greater visibility and more possibilities of interacting with other institutions. But the agency.s needs to improve its deficient communication skills. These handicaps inhibit fluid contacts with organizations, specially with those located in the interior of the country.  This weakness is also shared by CSOs themselves, specially grassroots organizations whose institutional capacities and possibilities of horizontal articulations have been severely impacted by the crisis. This situation has contributed to causing a mismatch between grassroots organizations requests and public responses.  This IDF proposal intends to offer technical assistance to CENOC to help eradicate this gap.
Strengthening E-Procurement The purpose of the grant is to strengthen e-government Procurement.  The main objectives are appended below: 1.   Strengthening of legal framework with regard to the e-GP including gap analysis, incorporation of recommendations and consultation to the amendment. 2.   Development of institutional mechanism for e-GP and preparation of its technical standards including the design of a systematic reporting system and preparation of draft technical specifications and standards. 3.   Capacity building to develop a team of e-GP experts through domestic and international training and twinning arrangements. 4.   Public awareness building in procurement reforms and e_GP, including mass media campaign and dissemination activities, as well as provision of public access to e-GP services. The objective of this IDF proposal is to strengthen e-Government Procurement  in Azerbaijan  through selected interventions which would lay the basis for a systematic development of  a more comprehensive e-GP system.
Implementation of Laws Governing Administrative Procedures & Information Openness IDF Grant The project will: .Support the Cabinets Working Group in charge of the LAP in developing and implementing its action plan, which would include: designing training programs for civil servants and judges; training the trainers; developing and monitoring administrative appeals mechanisms within government; developing mechanisms for compensating private individuals and organizations for wrongful administrative decisions; and educating the public about its rights and responsibilities;  2.   Strengthen capacity of State Data Protection Inspectorate in the Ministry of Justice to ensure efficient implementation of the LIA, which would include:  training them in procedures for disseminating public information and techniques for monitoring implementation of the law.
East Africa Statistical Training center The purpose of this grant is to improve the monitoring capabilities of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Eastern and Southern African countries.  This will be accomplished by creating a regional capacity at the East African Statistical Training Center (EASTC) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  EASTC will support NSOs carry out and analyze rapid service delivery surveys and strengthen their ability to execute, analyze and use household surveys in general.  The survey instrument to accomplish that will be the Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ). :  There are five general activities related to this grant: I.   Setting up a CWIQ Unit at the EASTC:  This will involve 1) staffing the CWIQ unit (paid for from counterpart contribution), 2) acquiring equipment for training and processing of CWIQ surveys, 3) recruiting a consultant to assist in establishing policies and procedures for the administration and financial management of the CWIQ unit, and 4) designing training courses. II.   Basic CWIQ training and recruitment of Technical Assistance (TA) teams:  The CWIQ unit will organize a 4-5 week basic CWIQ training course.  An internationally recruited trainer will conduct the course.  The CWIQ unit will identify and recruit 8 highly qualified, experienced candidates from both the public and private sectors to participate.  At the end of the training course, the candidates will be able to conduct CWIQ pilot/demonstration surveys and to assist NSOs to plan and implement national surveys. Equipment will be issued to each team. III.   Support to TA teams for initial CWIQ surveys: Once the TA teams have been trained, the CWIQ unit will be able to respond to requests from countries planning to carry out CWIQ-type surveys with the support of an international consultant. IV.   Advanced CWIQ training:  After a years experience supporting CWIQ projects in the region, the CWIQ unit will organize a second 4-5 week advanced CWIQ training course for the TA teams.  An internationally recruited trainer will conduct the course.  At the completion of this course, the TA teams will be qualified to develop new modules (sectoral questionnaires) to the existing core CWIQ and analyze the data over time. V.           Support to TA teams for use of Advanced CWIQ surveys: The CWIQ unit will initiate six additional CWIQ projects following the advanced training course.  After successfully completing a total of 12 CWIQ projects, the EASTC CWIQ unit will be able to train national statistics office personnel to organize and implement CWIQ surveys with limited or no additional technical assistance.  An international consultant will also be on hand in the initial advanced phase to ensure that the TA teams will be able to transfer the knowledge to NSOs without further support
Enhancing communications to stakeholders, transparency and accountability at the Ministry of Finance The project will support making the Ministry of Finance in Argentina more responsive to citizens and the private sector.  In order to do so, it will support the following activities: - Communications Audit at the Ministry of Finance. This needs assessment will establish strengths and weaknesses, defining a performance improvement plan based also in a benchmarking exercise with other G-20 Countries. -    Facilitation of the design and implementation of a results and performance based communications strategy- -   Generate a customized data base of external stakeholders at provincial/federal level -   Establish an online media center for Ministry of Finance and other ministries with up to the minute information to the media -   Develop a series of "on the job training" seminars for journalists, civil society, staff from Executive and Legislative powers on the impact of the economic crisis and the way forward -   Development of Interactive web based tools to communicate with the public and allow the processing of Access to Public Information requestspowers on the impact of the economic crisis and the way forward The overall objective of the proposed IDF grant is to improve the capacity of the Ministry of Finance in Argentina to deliver better and timely services  to the public and the media by increasing  transparency and accountability  Specific Objectives:  1. Strengthening the Ministry#s communications unit by identifying key institutional changes that need to be introduced and facilitating access to peer knowledge and good practices.  2. Supporting information request handling as well as pro-active transparency provisions at the Ministry, through the development of an ICT platform.  3. Supporting better understanding by the public of the activities performed by the Ministry of Finance, through enhancing services delivered to the media especially through its website and new media.
Strengthening Brazil Subnational Audit State audit organizations (Tribunais de Contas or TCEs) report to the Legislative Branch in each Brazilian state and are the entities responsible for performing financial and operational audits of budget execution and the quality of government expenditures. The overarching development objective of the grant would be to strengthen TCEs thereby adding another tool to those being used to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditure. To achieve this objective, the grant would seek to strengthen selected more developed TCEs to (i) improve their audit and control over sub-national expenditures and (ii) leverage their capabilities to provide cost-effective training, TA and knowledge transfer to less-advanced state audit organizations. The grant would not provide sufficient resources to meet the needs of all TCEs. However, it would take an x-ray of the current institutional and technical capabilities of potentially all TCEs, provide them an opportunity to assess and develop strategies to address their key development gaps, and for the less advanced TCEs, participate in limited training and TA activities and begin the process of strengthening the external audit of sub-national public expenditures in their states. The development objective of the grant would be to strengthen three more-developed state audit organizations (Tribunal de Contas or TCEs) to (i) improve their audit and control over sub-national expenditures and (ii) leverage their capabilities to provide cost-effective training, TA and knowledge transfer to other, lesser-developed TCEs.
Economic Policy Sector Board Building the human capital and institutional capacity of the Ministry of Economy and related ministries to prepare a low emissions development strategy for the country
Strengthen the Social Assessment Capacity in Urban Construction Project in China Facing the fast urbanization development in China, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction is developing "The Urban Construction Projects Social Assessment Guidelines". The Guidelines aims to regulate and provide instructions to social assessment work in urban construction projects and make social assessment play a more important part in the decision-making process. The primary assessment conducted by the Ministry found the capacity of various levels of government and consultants to implement the Guidelines is low. This IDF grant will assist the Ministry in strengthening social assessment capacity through: developing of Illustrated Guidelines, training for various levels of officials and consultants and planning for implementation monitoring mechanism.  The IDF grant aims to assist the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction in strengthening social assessment capacity for urban construction projects in China. Specifically, the grant will assist the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction in 1) developing and publishing of an Illustrated Social Assessment Guidelines on Urban Construction Projects;  2) designing and implementation related training programs;  and 3) recommending  institutional mechanism to integrate Social Assessment into project lifecycle.