Pub. Sector Reform and Capacity Building Credit

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The major objective of the Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building Project is to assist the government to implement its long-term public sector institutional development strategy. The project will be a specific investment credit consisting of five components: (a) civil service modernization; (b) municipal strengthening; (c) economic management support; (d) legal and judicial upgrading; and (e) public procurement reform. The first component will provide assistance to reform and modernize the civil service by providing short-term advisory services and equipment to the Ministry of Public Administration, training for staff from various parts of the civil service, and training and retraining for voluntary departees from the civil service. The second component will provide assistance for building local capacity to participate and to manage through the provision of training, equipment, short-term advisory services and support for operational studies for all 15 municipalities, and where appropriate, the Ministry of Internal Administration. The third component will support and strengthen economic management capacity by assisting with operational studies and public information campaigns, and providing advisory services, training, equipment, library support to the Ministries of Economic Coordination, Finance, and Communications and their major agencies as well as the private media. The fourth component will provide assistance for legal and judicial reforms and modernizing the justice system through the provision of training, equipment and materials, textbooks and printing, and advisory services for the Ministry of Justice and Labor and its major agencies including the Judiciary, the Registrar of Companies, and the Registrar of Deeds as well as legal services for key ministries. The fifth component will provide assistance for continued reform of public procurement by providing training, short-term advisory services and equipment to the Public Procurement Department and selected administration departments.