The Public Management Support technical assistance (TA) will strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to conduct sophisticated management analysis and decision making as the country addresses new and complex challenges in economic and fiscal policy reform. The TA will also establish an oversight regime in MOF to properly monitor the financial performance and delivery of services in Afghanistan's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state-owned corporations (SOCs). The TA will be implemented over 39 months.
The impact of the TA has strengthened Afghanistan's institutions and improved performance of SOEs and SOCs. This impact is aligned with the Afghanistan National Development Strategy. The outcome will be improved public sector decision making.
The TA will have the following outputs:
- Output 1: Increased understanding of public financial management, procurement, and anti-corruption issues.
- Output 2: Improved economic and fiscal policy management.
| Project Name | Public Management Support | ||||
| Project Number | 48419-001 | ||||
| Country | Afghanistan |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Inclusive economic growth |
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| Drivers of Change | Gender Equity and Mainstreaming Governance and capacity development |
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| Sector / Subsector | Public sector management / Economic affairs management - Public expenditure and fiscal management - Reforms of state owned enterprises |
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| Gender Equity and Mainstreaming | Some gender elements | ||||
| Description | The Public Management Support technical assistance (TA) will strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to conduct sophisticated management analysis and decision making as the country addresses new and complex challenges in economic and fiscal policy reform. The TA will also establish an oversight regime in MOF to properly monitor the financial performance and delivery of services in Afghanistan's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and state-owned corporations (SOCs). The TA will be implemented over 39 months. The impact of the TA has strengthened Afghanistan's institutions and improved performance of SOEs and SOCs. This impact is aligned with the Afghanistan National Development Strategy. The outcome will be improved public sector decision making. The TA will have the following outputs: - Output 1: Increased understanding of public financial management, procurement, and anti-corruption issues. - Output 2: Improved economic and fiscal policy management. - Output 3: Improved oversight of SOEs and SOCs. |
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| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | In ADB's Country Operations Business Plan for Afghanistan for 2015-2017, $1.5 million is programmed for the Public Management Support TA. ADB's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2009-2013 for Afghanistan identified infrastructure investments as a necessary contributor to rapid economic growth and poverty reduction with a focus on public sector management. Private sector development, governance and anticorruption and capacity development were priority cross-cutting themes. The Interim CPS (2014-2015) continues the focus of the 2009-2013 strategy while a new strategy is being prepared. The CPS, 2009-2013 was fully aligned with the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS), 2013 and ADB's Strategy 2020. ANDS is the government's poverty reduction strategy that envisions a stable Afghanistan by 2020 based on constitutional democracy with social equity, environmental sustainability, and a market economy led by the private sector. To reiterate commitment to reforms, the government has also prepared an economic development strategy, Realizing Self-Reliance. The strategy stresses restoring fiscal sustainability, building better governance and bolstering private sector growth. The TA remains in line with the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF: 2017 - 2021), and the National Infrastructure Plan (2017 - 2021). It is also in line with the ADB CPS (2017 - 2021) and COBP (2019 - 2021). The TA would help the government to identify and to potentially reform its SOEs, and support the government to improve its macro-fiscal policy. The continuation of the TA is included in the COBP (2019 - 2021) - which is still subject to ADB Management Approval. |
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| Impact | Strengthen Afghanistan''s institutions and improve the performance of SOEs and SOCs. | ||||
| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | Improved public sector decision making |
| Progress Toward Outcome | Progress toward this outcome is on-going. |
| Implementation Progress | |
| Description of Project Outputs | 1.Increased understanding of public financial management, procurement, and anticorruption issues 2. mproved economic and fiscal policy management 3. Improved oversight of SOEs and SOCs |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | Progress toward these outputs is on-going. Currently, the process of having a general chart of accounts for SOEs is in near completion. The adoption of the general chart of accounts and the conversion of the accounting practice for the SOEs to accrual basis based on the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) is on-going. |
| Geographical Location | Nation-wide |
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| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
| During Project Design | Other development partners have complementary assistance programs in the areas of public financial management and financial sector development. USAID and US Treasury, the UK's Department for International Development, and Australia's Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade are assisting the Afghan government in various areas of public financial management. Their support focuses on revenue (improving collection, broadening the tax base and reducing corruption), public financial management (budget operations, budget expenditure and treasury operations) and similar issues in line ministries. Many donor programs on public financial management are coming to an end reflecting a general winding down of operations in Afghanistan. The story on the financial sector side is different with few donors supporting financial sector reforms. However, no donor supports work in SOEs/SOCs or Islamic finance. |
| During Project Implementation | Various meetings have been held with the government counterparts, especially with the Ministry of Finance (Administration) to discuss the progress of the TA as well as the adoption of the draft outputs for implementation. |
| Business Opportunities | |
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| Consulting Services | A total of 202 person-months of international (14 months) and national (188 months) consulting services are required to ensure that the technical assistance (TA) project is effectively managed and the intended outcome is achieved. Only individuals were engaged as firms are unlikely to be interested in contracts requiring a high number of national consultants. The individuals were selected in accordance with the ADB Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time). |
| Procurement | Not applicable. |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Budiman, Renadi |
| Responsible ADB Department | Central and West Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Afghanistan Resident Mission |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 03 Jul 2015 |
| Fact Finding | 06 Aug 2015 to 09 Aug 2015 |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 16 Oct 2015 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 27 Sep 2018 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 16 Oct 2015 | 03 Nov 2015 | 03 Nov 2015 | 31 Dec 2018 | 31 May 2019 | - |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,500,000.00 | 16 Oct 2015 | 1,467,895.24 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Public Management Support: Technical Assistance Completion Report | TA Completion Reports | Oct 2020 |
| Public Management Support: Technical Assistance Report | Technical Assistance Reports | Oct 2015 |
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Tenders
| Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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| Commercial Legal Specialist | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 11 Apr 2018 | 17 Apr 2018 |
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