EMCP Expenditure Management and Control (Sub) Program EPRDF ERCA ESW Ethiopian People Democratic Front Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority Economic Sector Work FEACC Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission FTAP Financial Transparency and Accountability project FY Fiscal Year GGP Good Governance Package GTP Growth and Transformation Plan GoE Government of Ethiopia HR Human Resources IBEX Integrated Financial Management and Information System ICT Information and Communication Technology (Sub Program) IDA International Development Agency IFMIS Integrated Budget and Expenditure management system JBAR Joint Budget and Aid Review JRIS Joint Review and Implementation Support JSRP Justice System Reform (Sub) Program LIG Local Investment Grant M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MCB Ministry of Capacity Building MoCS Ministry of Civil Service MDG Millennium Development Goals MSEs Micro and Small Scale Enterprise NCBP National Capacity Building Program PBS Protection of Basic Services PRSC Poverty Reduction Support Credits PS Professional Science PSCAP Public Sector Capacity Building Program
Nigeria Programmatic – comprehensive scope Reform design based on broader issues and demand driven, but implemented on a limited scale in specific institutions. Comprehensive design, applying diagnostic methods to broader issues. Mozambique Programmatic Focus on mainstreaming capacity in development sectors within poverty reduction or macro strategy and coordination of donor support. Capacity building failed mostly due to a lack of coherent strategy and problems with the design and implementation. Strategy coordination focuses on technical assistance and fragmentation. Strategies mostly paid attention to improving sector management and coordinating donor support. PSR project not implemented. Contradictory views for the reasons: commitment, design or implementation problems, question of donors’ sustainability and focus on technical assistance for sectors. Specific sectors The 2004 Public Sector Reform project was an attempt to take a more integrated, cross-sector approach to the issue of performance incentives and a sector-wide health sector reform program. Linking sector specific reforms to performance incentives. Ghana Overall strategy No overall strategy for capacity building was articulated and the interrelationships between public sector reform and sector programs were not explicitly managed. Less integration among projects. Privatization, decentralization, public service reforms have been on the agenda with limited results. Least successful capacity support has been in public sector reform. Failure in such areas as public service reform and the computerization of public expenditure management. Source: extracted from literature review of countries, 2004-2010, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana and Ethiopia Refining the purpose, objective or strategy and consistency of the Ethiopian PSR reform A few Sub-Saharan Africa countries applied a cross-sectorial and integrated PSR approach aligned with the goals of democratization or development, and Ethiopia is one of them. The quality of a reform program depends on the existence of a coherent reform strategy and adherence to it, the alignment of a standalone or an integrated reform project/program to national strategies and
offices in the last 6 months and this is being expanded to other regions. Users of the toll free call center increased in the last two quarters from 35K to 76K. Similarly, the National government portal is also providing information to internal and external users. The proclamation for asset and income sources disclosure and registration for public officials was enacted in 2010 and implementation has started at the federal level. An international firm conducted the second corruption survey and a draft report was presented at a workshop. This expected to provide information about corruption hotspots, which will require attention from government. ANNEX 2: Powers and Functions of the Federal Powers and Functions of Regional States: Protect and defend the Constitution; Formulate and implement the country's policies, strategies and plans in respect to overall economic, social and development matters; Establish and implement national standards and basic policy criteria for public health, education, science, and technology as well as for the protection and preservation of cultural and historical legacies; Formulate and execute the country's financial, monetary, and foreign investment policies and strategies; Enact laws for the utilization and conservation of land and other natural resources, historical sites, and objects; Establish and administer national defense and public security forces as well as a federal police force; Administer the national bank, print and Establish a state administration that best advances self-government, a democratic order based on the rule of law; to protect and defend the federal constitution; Enact and execute the state constitution and other laws; Formulate and execute economic, social and development policies, strategies and plans of the state; Administer land and other natural resources in accordance with federal laws; Levy and collect taxes and duties on revenue sources reserved to the states and to draw up and administer the state budget; Enact and enforce laws on the state civil service and their condition of work; in the implementation of this responsibility it shall ensure that educational, training, and experience requirements for any job, title, or position approximate national standards;