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Technical Assistance for Revenue Administration and Revenue Policy - Mongolia Assistance to Mongolias General Directorate on Taxation (GDT) focuses on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; review of agreed audit workload; and provision of internationally recognized audit techniques for specific economic sectors -- financial services, construction, among others. The project has helped to establish a key client manager regime in taxpayer service and implement a returns submission process consistent with self-assessment. Focused shifted in 2015, at the request of the GDT to apply lessons learned from the LTO to the tax administration generally. Therefore, in 2015 and 2016, the project supported improvements to the submission processing (beyond the LTO), international taxation (beyond the LTO), functional management throughout the GDT, initially focused on audit, and improving registration and taxpayer information for small and medium sized businesses. The 2017 work plan supports GDT priorities, particularly in establishing a strong foundation for segment based compliance management and developing a modern data acquisition and management plan. The program, together with the work of the IMF, will support improvements to the quality of
Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability - Mongolia The Advisor will support the implementation of a new standardized chart of accounts, program budgeting, and monitoring and reporting of investment projects. The advisor will: document the current classifications used for Budget, the required Financial Reporting, Management Reports and Program reporting, and analyze for commonalities and discrepancies; document the reporting needs in order for the Government to comply with laws and regulations and support effective financial analysis at both the national and sub-national levels of the government; analyze current program budgeting efforts in Health and Education programs to benchmark against best practices and develop lessons learned; ensure that account coding structure developed under Problem 1 accommodates program classifications to support program budgeting; develop a proposed structure and methodology to identify objectives and results that are tied to national and sector policy priorities; develop a program budgeting structure to be used uniformly by the government including goals, objectives, programs, activities as well as output and outcome indicators; recommend a reporting structure for capturing data on
Technical Assistance for Revenue Policy and Administration - Mongolia PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTORS - NON-EMPLOYEE OMB CLASSIFICATION
Technical Assistance for Government Debt & Infrastructure Finance - Mongolia IFT Assist DBM with traditional development bank activities such as the analysis of appropriate project preparation (selection and prioritization of infrastructure projects, ability to review a feasibility study, detect gaps); credit analysis, cash flow models and macro vs. micro analysis; risk analysis; and development of a new sovereign debt fund through identification of legal and regulatory environments necessary for policy and procedural frameworks.
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Government Debt Issuance and Management Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets,improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability - Mongolia The goal of this project is to assist the GOM in meeting government public service delivery and development priorities by strengthening public financial management in the areas of cash management and budget execution. Project components include: 1) developing a new cash forecasting model to better manage and anticipate cash requirements; 2) revising the cash liquidity reserve regulation to help right size and improve management of the cash reserve; and 3) improving the organizational structure and capacity of the Treasury Directorate to carryout/implement planned improvements in cash planning and liquidity management. ...
Technical Assistance for Government Debt Issuance and Management Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets,improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Government Debt & Infrastructure Finance -Mongolia Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets, improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Budget and Financial Accountability Mongolia - Budget and Financial Accountability
Technical Assistance for Revenue Policy and Administration Assistance focuses on risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of multi-national enterprises; assess international transfer pricing risks; assess revenue recognition and cost recovery; review of agreed audit workload; Assistance also provided to the Large Taxpayer Office Audit Section on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of Mongolian financial companies; identifying impact of economic crisis on financial institutions, and risk assessment in a net operating loss environment; assessing specifics related to the banking sector; providing best practice for specialized banking sector audits; tax implications of converting cash payments into non-cash transactions, and how evasion can be detected/avoided; addressing audit strategies for firms in specialized sectors, including construction.
Technical Assistance for Revenue Policy and Administration Assistance focuses on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of multi-national joint ventures; large case specialist assistance to in process mining cases; assess international pricing risks; assess revenue recognition and costs recovery; review of agreed audit workload; and provision of best practice audit guidelines for mining sector under Mongolian tax law. Assistance also provided to the Large Taxpayer Office Audit Section on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of Mongolian financial companies; identifying impact of economic crisis on financial institutions, and risk assessment in a net operating loss environment; assessing specifics related to the banking sector; providing best practice for specialized banking sector audits; tax implications of converting cash payments into non-cash transactions, and how evasion can be detected/avoided; establishing a key client manager regime in taxpayer service; establishing a returns submission process consistent with self-assessment; addressing audit strategies for firms in specialized sectors -- including construction.
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Banking and Financial Services Mongolia - Banking and Financial Services
Technical Assistance for Government Debt and Infrastructure Finance - Mongolia IFT PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTORS - NON-EMPLOYEE OMB CLASSIFICATION
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Government Debt Issuance and Management Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets, improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability - Mongolia Technical Assistance for Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability - Mongolia
Technical Assistance for Revenue Administration and Policy - Mongolia FOREIGN COMMON CARRIER
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Budget and Financial Accountability The Advisor will support the implementation of a new standardized chart of accounts, program budgeting, and monitoring and reporting of investment projects. The advisor will: document the current classifications used for Budget, the required Financial Reporting, Management Reports and Program reporting, and analyze for commonalities and discrepancies; document the reporting needs in order for the Government to comply with laws and regulations and support effective financial analysis at both the national and sub-national levels of the government; analyze current program budgeting efforts in Health and Education programs to benchmark against best practices and develop lessons learned; ensure that account coding structure developed under Problem 1 accommodates program classifications to support program budgeting; develop a proposed structure and methodology to identify objectives and results that are tied to national and sector policy priorities; develop a program budgeting structure to be used uniformly by the government including goals, objectives, programs, activities as well as output and outcome indicators; recommend a reporting structure for capturing data on
Technical Assistance for Government Debt & Infrastructure Finance - Mongolia Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets, improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Government Debt and Infrastructure Finance - Mongolia Provide technical assistance to MOF for domestic government securities market development; increased ability to access international debt markets, improved capacity to effectively forecast and manage cash balances; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability Mongolia - Budget and Financial Accountability
Technical Assistance for Government Debt Issuance and Management Provide technical assistance in government debt to develop internal and external debt markets; capability of increased effectiveness in cash management; and development of a sovereign wealth fund.
Technical Assistance for Banking and Financial Services Strengthen banking supervisory authorities within the Mongol Bank by instituting new policies and procedures, and building institutional capacity to resolve weak of failing financial institutions. The Ministry of Finance needs assistance in developing procedures to exercise it new authority as owner of Anod Bank as well as future banks that may be taken over by the government; and assistance in structuring bod issuances to be used in the recapitalization of banks.
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Revenue Policy and Administration Assistance to Mongolias recently reorganized General Authority on Customs and Taxation (GACT) focuses on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; tax liability of multi-national enterprises; review of agreed audit workload; and provision of internationally recognized audit techniques for specific economic sector -- financial services, construction, among others. The project has helped to establish a key client manager regime in taxpayer service and implement a returns submission process consistent with self-assessment. Focused shifted in 2015, at the request of the GACT to apply lessons learned from the LTO to the tax administration generally. Therefore, in 2015 and 2016, the project is supporting improvements to submission processing (beyond the LTO), international taxation (beyond the LTO), functional management throughout the GDT, initially focusing on audit, and improving registration and taxpayer information for small and medium sized businesses.
Technical Assistance for Government Debt and Infrastucture Finance - Mongolia IFT PERSONAL SERVICE CONTRACTORS - NON-EMPLOYEE OMB CLASSIFICATION
Technical Assistance for Budget and Financial Accountability Strengthen Mongolia's cash management abilities so they can better manage their cash resources both on short-term and long-term basis and enhance the transparency of selection of investment projects. Activities include strengthening the legislative framework, establishing a cash management unit, further refining of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) through integration of the special funds and enhancing cash flow forecasting abilities, creating a stability and savings fund for public mining revenues; and developing clear criteria for selecting investment projects.
Technical Assistance for Mongolia - Revenue Policy and Administration Assistance focuses on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of multi-national joint ventures; large case specialist assistance to in process mining cases; assess international pricing risks; assess revenue recognition and costs recovery; review of agreed audit workload; and provision of best practice audit guidelines for mining sector under Mongolian tax law. Assistance also provided to the Large Taxpayer Office Audit Section on: risk assessment; scope and depth of audit plans; assessing books and records of Mongolian financial companies; identifying impact of economic crisis on financial institutions, and risk assessment in a net operating loss environment; assessing specifics related to the banking sector; providing best practice for specialized banking sector audits; tax implications of converting cash payments into non-cash transactions, and how evasion can be detected/avoided; establishing a key client manager regime in taxpayer service; establishing a returns submission process consistent with self-assessment; addressing audit strategies for firms in specialized sectors -- including construction.
West Hemisphere Branch-International Grants To develop a framework for environmental, financial and social sustainability for the effective management for Corozal Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize
Promoting Conservation and Sustainable Land-Use in the Maya Golden Landscape, Southern Belize This project will increase sustainable land-use activities in the Maya Golden Landscape that conserve species and habitats while strengthening livelihoods by 1) reducing slash and burn agriculture in the buffer zone of the Golden Stream Corridor Preserve through 15 new acres of alley cropping and 160 acres of agroforestry, 2) creating a land-use map for all 8 villages of the region in a participatory way, and 3) increasing awareness and improving sustainable farming practices in all 8 communities by increasing farmer production and incomes using agroforestry techniques.
Conserving the threatened jaguar population through improved management of human jaguar conflicts within the Southern Belize Biological Corridor Project will reduce conflicts between humans and jaguars throughout the Southern Belize Biological Corridor through the adoption of jaguar conflict mitigation measures by cattle farmers. This project is intended to conserve the Near Threatened jaguar (Panthera onca) population by addressing impacts of direct persecution and retaliatory killings by humans. Specific activities include: (1) development and implementation of a system to monitor human-jaguar conflicts locally and to support national monitoring efforts; (2) recruitment of interested livestock farmers buffering the corridor to implement jaguar conflict mitigation measures within their farms; (3) development and implementation of a public campaign focused on human-jaguar conflict mitigation targeting communities buffering the corridor to encourage the protection of jaguars and increase the number of reports of human jaguar conflicts to relevant authorities.
Increasing wildlife security through development of a landscape wide Compliance Strategy for the..Southern Maya Mountains Project will reduce uncontrolled and unsustainable wildlife and timber harvesting and trafficking within the Southern Maya Mountain Massif through strengthened compliance with timber and wildlife laws. Project activities include: 1) training Yaaxche field rangers on the use of SMART technology, 2) transferring knowledge to other protected area ranger teams through peer-to-peer training sessions, and 3) bringing together the Belize Forest Department, private logging companies, Belize Defence Force, community leaders and other key stakeholders to jointly develop a holistic Compliance Strategy for the Maya Mountain North Forest Reserve, Bladen Nature Reserve, Columbia River Forest Reserve and Deep River Forest Reserve. The strategy will be inclusive of enforcement, education and awareness, training needs and adoption of effective technology.
Combating Wildlife Issues in Belize to address illegal wildlife crime, to improve wildlife.security. Project will improve wildlife security throughout Belize by strengthening national wildlife law enforcement and launching a national public campaign to fight wildlife crime. The project is intended to conserve priority wildlife species including the Central American river turtle, yellow headed parrot, great curassow, white lipped peccary, scarlet macaw, Geoffroys spider monkey, Yucatan black howler monkey and jaguar by reducing illegal and unsustainable harvesting of wildlife and illegal wildlife trade. Specific activities include: 1) revision and dissemination of a National Threatened Species List; 2) creation of a National Wildlife Law Enforcement Network across multiple enforcement agencies to respond to wildlife crimes; 3) training 20 wildlife law enforcement officers of the Forest Department and NGO protected area co-managers as well as 50 multi-agency enforcement personnel in wildlife enforcement; 4) adoption of a National Wildlife Awareness Strategy and associated communication plan; and 5) implementation of a public campaign on wildlife crime including outreach at 12 national and regional events, 40 schools within high wildlife crime communities, targeted engagement of hunting communities, dealers and restaurants, and media packages for radio broadcasts.
MAINSTREAMING BIODIVERSITY AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE MAYA GOLDEN LANDSCAPE THROUGH DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND ALTERNATIVE SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS The purpose of this project is to support a conservation effort in the Maya Golden Landscape of Belize by advancing protected area management and strengthening local community engagement to reduce illegal logging and unsustainable agricultural practices. The project is intended to conserve the regions species diversity and ecosystem services and ensure the integrity of the forest corridor between the Maya Mountain Massif and the Maya Forrest through mobilization of digital technology for effective surveillance patrols and increased livelihoods via sustainable agroforestry practices. Activities include: (1) equipping and training Yaaxchs ranger team with the technology, knowledge, and gear to swiftly identify and provide enforcement to illegal activity hotspots in both Bladen Nature Reserve and Maya Mountain North Forest Reserve; (2) strengthening partnerships with national ministries to foster joint patrols and continued enforcement support; (3) supporting protected area buffer farms in implementing cacao agroforestry to demonstrate the value of protected areas; and (4) engaging local communities in a family-oriented BioBlitz event focused on showcasing the importance of Belizes protected areas
Prevention and Control of Agricultural Incursions in the Chiquibul National Park. Project will reduce the expansion of the agricultural frontier into Chiquibul National Park, largely by Guatemalan nationals, by strengthening monitoring and enforcement capacity of the park ranger force to address large-scale illegal agricultural clearings and raising the visibility of the protected area through public education and outreach. Project activities include: 1) regular ranger patrols within the Chiquibul Forest including operationalizing one conservation post in Southern Chiquibul through a full time ranger presence, 2) equipping ranger teams and training rangers on SMART patrol systems, 3) engaging national media outlets through site visits to increase public visibility of the area and law enforcement efforts, and 4) convening bi-national stakeholders in order to harmonize efforts with Guatemalan counterparts. The project has a strong complimentary bi-national linkage to LAC 1523 in Guatemala.
Human-Jaguar Conflict Mitigation in the Southern Biological Corridor, Belize This project will reduce human-jaguar conflict in the Southern Belize Corridor by 1) evaluating and better understanding current conflict dynamics, 2) introducing a dedicated human-jaguar conflict officer and their services to affected communities, and 3) educating and working with ranchers to implement mitigation measures on at least 4 demonstration farms.
Strengthening CITES Implementation in Central America and the Caribbean Strengthening CITES Implementation in Central America and the Caribbean
Wildlife Without Borders-Western Hemisphere This project will increase sustainable land-use activities in the Maya Golden Landscape that conserve species and habitats while strengthening livelihoods by 1) reducing slash and burn agriculture in the buffer zone of the Golden Stream Corridor Preserve through 15 new acres of alley cropping and 160 acres of agroforestry, 2) creating a land-use map for all 8 villages of the region in a participatory way, and 3) increasing awareness and improving sustainable farming practices in all 8 communities by increasing farmer production and incomes using agroforestry techniques.
Mitigating Wildlife Trafficking in the Chiquibul Forest, Belize MITIGATING WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING IN THE CHIQUIBUL FOREST, BEL
Consolidando las alianzas estratgicas multisectoriales, la colaboracin binacional y medios de vida en comunidades rurales The purpose of this project is to reduce agricultural encroachment on broadleaf and coniferous forests of the Chiquibul-Maya Mountains landscape by consolidating strategic alliances, improving rural livelihoods of communities in critical conservation areas, and strengthening public and private participation through the Inter-sectoral Roundtable for Land and the Environment for Southern Petn. The project is intended to conserve part of Central Americas largest intact blocks of tropical forest that harbor emblematic species such as jaguars, scarlet macaws, and Bairds tapirs. Specific activities include: (1) ground monitoring and patrolling for illegal forest clearing for agriculture and wildlife trafficking; (2) developing and training appropriate protocols for patrols and law enforcement actions to prevent conflict; (3) coordination meetings between Guatemalan and Belizean authorities to improve application of the law and disruption of organized crime networks operating in and across the Adjacency Zone; (4) expanding sustainable livelihood and agroforestry projects for hotspot border communities and governance platforms to ensure their long term management; and (5) conducting a social, economic, and environmental evaluation to measure impact on reducing forest loss, strengthening governance, and improving human well-being in the region.