Ethiopia Promoting Basic Services Program Phase III Project

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The development objective of the Third Phase of the Promoting Basic Services (PBS) Project for Ethiopia is to contribute to the higher-level of expanding access and improving the quality of basic services by funding block grants that ensure adequate staffing and operations, and by strengthening the capacity, transparency, accountability and financial management of government at regional and local authorities' level. PBS supports the Government's commitment to strengthen decentralized service delivery and enhance local transparency and accountability mechanisms that support those service delivery objectives. The PBS program combines (A) a high-volume sub-program that finances recurrent expenditures for basic services at sub-national levels, (B) a system strengthening subprogram with three components to improve transparency and accountability systems at woredalevel, and (C) a results enhancement fund to pilot performance-based approaches to remove constraints to reaching results.