Burkina Faso Economic Governance, GovTech and Citizen Engagement Project

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The development objective of the Economic Governance and Citizen Engagement Project for Burkina Faso is to enhance domestic revenue mobilization and improve the use of public resources by strengthening accountability mechanisms, revenue collection systems, and public expenditure management. The project comprises of four components. The first component, strengthening citizen engagement and accountability objective is to improve public sector transparency and accountability and strengthen civil society capacity to monitor public sector performance and service delivery. It consists of three sub-components: (i) enhancing public sector transparency; (ii) developing accountability mechanisms in service delivery; and (iii) consolidating mechanisms and capacity to fight fraud and corruption. The second component, improving domestic revenue mobilization and public expenditure management objective is to increase fiscal space and domestic revenue collection and enhance the performance of public spending and the delivery of efficient public services. It consists of five sub-components: (i) broadening the tax base and simplification of customs clearances and tax procedures; (ii) enhancing revenue and budget management information systems; (iii) strengthening public procurement management and capacity; (iv) cash, debt, and treasury management; and (v) strengthening predictability and control in budget execution. The third component, rapid response facility objective is to provide implementation support for additional priorities that can stem from the new authorities and the evolution of the economic governance reform agenda (revised country governance strategy) that addresses key binding constraints (institutional, regulatory, capacity, governance, and so on) of public services. The fourth component, project management support objective is to establish an effective and efficient project coordination and administration function during the implementation of the project. It consists of two sub-components: (i) project management and central coordination; and (ii) monitoring, evaluation, independent review, and communication.