Fiscal Management Project

active

Prospective

The development objective of the Fiscal Management Project for Lebanon is to support the Lebanese Republic restore the basic functions for domestic revenue mobilization and accountable allocation and use of public resources. The project comprises of five components. The first component, stabilizing domestic revenue administration aims at providing essential support to critical revenue functions, which is a pre-condition to increasing the collection of tax and non-tax revenues. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening large taxpayer office and a taskforce for large debts; (ii) restoring basic functions of customs; and (iii) restoring revenue management information and communication technologies (ICT) systems. The second component, restoring fiscal control’s objective is to reestablish the critical pillars for allocating and utilizing resources to meet urgent needs, as well as to set the foundation for recovery. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening budget preparation; (ii) regularizing fiscal and year-end financial reporting; (iii) maintaining timely processing of public payments; and (iv) restoring cross-cutting ICT functionalities. The third component, revitalizing oversight and accountability institutions and procurement capacity building aims to help enhance: (a) the role of oversight, audit and capacity of the Court of Accounts (CoA), Central Inspection (CI), the Public Procurement Authority and other selected public procurement and expand their engagement with the citizens; and (b) the role of capacity building of the Institute of Finance (IoF). It consists of following sub-components: (i) increase capacity to oversight and accountability institutions; and (ii) procurement certification programs and training. The fourth component, project management will support the management, coordination, communications and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) for Project activities. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will support the provision of an immediate response to an eligible crisis or emergency, as needed.

FY17 - Public Administration

World Bank

Project

Residential, Commercial, Government