Morocco - Second Public Administration Development Policy Loan

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The Second Public Administration Development Policy Loan for Morocco will be the second in a series of three single-tranche Programmatic Development Policy Loans (P-DPL) that build on the public administration reform framework initiated by the government in 2003. A first loan was approved by the Bank Board on July 1, 2004. The objectives of the proposed loan are to support the Government's continuous efforts to improve the effectiveness of public resource management, a key step for increasing growth and improving the quality of public services. The reform program supported by the P-DPLs includes three components: (a) budgetary reforms designed to improve the efficiency of public expenditure, (b) a reform of civil service management, and (c) measures to keep the wage bill at a sustainable level over time. All three components have both short term impacts on the current management systems and longer term effects resulting in a structural change in these systems. In parallel, the reform program is supported by a Programmatic Economic and Sector Work (P-ESW) activity through which the Bank is providing the Government with advice, training, and knowledge transfer as required in the areas of budgetary management, civil service reform, and wage bill containment.