Enhancing Government Effectiveness for Improved Public Services

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The development objective of the Enhancing Government Effectiveness for Improved Public Services Program-for-Results Project for Cote d'Ivoire is to strengthen government capacity in program‐based budgeting and procurement, delivery of selected education services, management of roads contracts, and facilitating access to financial services. The World Bank is responding to the Government request through a Program for Results (PforR) operation addressing horizontal PFM and procurement challenges as well as governance bottlenecks in key services. The World Bank program is focused on selected areas of the Economic Governance for Service Delivery Program (EGSDP). On the one hand, it supports horizontal reforms addressing budgeting and public procurement challenges across the government and impacting on service delivery performance. On the other hand, it contributes to the EGSDP priority on service delivery with a focus on education, road infrastructure, and financial sector. The proposed operation is well aligned with Focus Areas One, Two, and Three of the FY16–FY21 Côte d’Ivoire Country Partnership Framework (CPF) as confirmed and extended with the Performance and Learning Review (PLR, 2018).The Government’s commitment to improve delivery of public services and strengthen public resources management functions is reflected in the five axes of the EGSDP, with an envelope of approximately USD194 million. The EGSDP focuses on creating an effective enabling environment to improve core government functions of sectoral planning, performance‐based budgeting, and execution through modernized procurement and cash management at the central level, while simultaneously introducing results‐based focus at the sectoral level to improve their performance in service delivery. It consists of five axes: (a) improving domestic revenue mobilization; (b) strengthening performance‐based budgeting and procurement; (c) facilitating service delivery and improving the quality of services provided to citizens; (d) reinforcing the production and quality of economic and social statistics; and (e) enhancing access to financial services.