Gabon: Governance Effectiveness for Resource Efficiency and Results

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The IPF component will include a TA component that accounts for around 10 percent of the operation’s total financing (~$5 million) to address key areas that will require specialized support and technical expertise.RA#1: Just-in-time TA and studies for RA#1 managing fiscal risks and revenue mobilization, inter alia: • Developing tools and approaches for monitoring SOE performance• Options for modernizing tax and customs administrations• Introduction of risk-based techniques in the tax and customs administrationsRA#2: Just-in-time TA and studies for RA#2 public finance efficiency, inter alia: • Reorganization of ministries for the operationalization of program budgeting• Institutionalization of performance contracts• Procedures and processes for execution of program budgets• Deconcentration of commitment controls in line ministries• Options for a better selection and monitoring of PIM projects• Introduction of performance-based and risk-based auditing techniques and toolsCross-cutting support: Change Management, Verification, and Audit • TA and support Rapid Results Initiatives’ national coaches • Third Party Verification Agency combined with TA to the Cour des Comptes on Verification of the PforR • Financial Audit of IPF component• Set up the PforR M&E system to track implementation progress & impact evaluations• ICT-based Grievance Redress Mechanism and beneficiary satisfaction