Planning and Financial Management Capacity Building Program

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The Planning and Financial Management Capacity Building Program Project seeks a sustainable strengthened planning, that includes budgeting, public expenditure management, and revenue administration for growth and poverty reduction, with emphasis on efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, integrity, and service culture, and, transparency. To this end, component A - Public Expenditure Management - will focus on the Government's difficulties on the expenditure side of public financial management, and, on planning, budget formulation, and budget execution; component B - Revenue Administration and Macroeconomic Management - will focus on the revenue side of public financial management, including petroleum revenue, and on the Ministry of Planning and Finance (MoPF) macroeconomic management functions; component C - Program-wide Activities - focuses on the cross-cutting skills and knowledge, systems and processes, and, attitudes and behaviors, that address professional work ethic, integrity, civil service standards, communication and information flows, basic skills, and, enhanced human resource functions that, together with procedures introducing internal control and compliance mechanisms allowing for the ability to safeguard public funds and track value-for-money, would ensure the development of a service culture in the MoPF, line ministries, and districts; component D - Support to Improved Governance and Management (SIGMA) - aims to support sound management of resources, and effective decision-making within the office of the Minister, and Vice-Minister of Planning and Finance; and, component E - Program Implementation - will seek to enhance the MoPF's capacity to administer the program by providing advisory support to the Administration and Information Technology (IT) Directorate.