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Inclusive and Effective Citizen Engagement: Participatory Budgeting--Makueni and West Pokot Counties

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017-05-01) World Bank Group

The introduction of citizen engagement into law is an idea that is gaining popularity around the world. New provisions in Kenya’s Constitution enshrine openness, accountability, and public participation as guiding principles for public financial management. Yet, translating participation laws into meaningful action on the ground is no simple task. With support from the Kenya participatory budgeting initiative (KPBI), and the commitment from West Pokot and Makueni County leaders, PB is being tested as a way to achieve more inclusive and effective citizen engagement processes while complying with national legal provisions. This report describes the PB approach being adopted by Makueni and West Pokot counties. It seeks to provide detailed information on the step by step process that the two Counties have adopted and describes the support provided by the KPBI. At the national level, the report is mostly targeted towards PB practitioners and county officials interested in introducing PB as part of their budgeting cycle. The report seeks also to inform a wider audience of PB and citizen engagement practitioners on the Kenyan experience to date.
Rwanda : Technical Assessment on a Proposed Credit

(Washington, DC, 2014-09-14) World Bank

The Public Financial Management (PFM) Sector Strategic Plan (SSP) identifies key challenges and proposes solutions in each program that are translated into a foundation for defining sector priorities and outcomes through FY2017-18. Improving coherence between national strategies, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), and the annual budget process has been identified as an area for improvement under the first program, on economic planning and budgeting. In the second program, on resource mobilization, key challenges are inadequate resource mobilization, resulting in aid dependency at the national level and lack of discretionary revenues at the subnational level. Across the PFM sector, particularly under program 7, on PFM sector and coordination, capacity and skill shortages are identified as key bottlenecks. Capacity and skill shortages are more pronounced at the subnational level, especially on core PFM areas such as accounting, auditing, budgeting, and reporting. NISR made significant progress in the quality, timeliness, and dissemination of data, mainly in the social and demographic domain, under the first National Strategy for Development of Statistics, or NSDS (2009-14). The overarching objectives of NSDS 2 are to produce relevant, reliable, and timely statistics to monitor the progress of EDPRS 2 and to strengthen the NSS.
The Republic of Sierra Leone : Public Financial Management Performance Assessment Report

(Washington, DC, 2010-12-10) World Bank

This assessment finds that the government of Sierra Leone has supplemented the improved legislative framework by establishing the National Revenue Authority and internal audit units. Procedural innovations were put into place for budget planning and monitoring. In addition, a new Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS) has replaced the old, unsustainable Financial Management and Accounting System (FMAS). Weaknesses included lack of budget credibility and predictability, fiscal management challenges, weaknesses in expenditure control (including payroll), and low levels of transparency. The Government considered that much remained to be done to move the system to a level that is capable of directing resources to priority areas and support high quality expenditure outcomes. This Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) progress report represents the most recent independent assessment.
Republic of Sierra Leone Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability : Performance Assessment Report 2010, Sub-National Governments (Local Councils)

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2010-12) Mulit Donor Budget Support Partners

This Public Financial Management (PFM) Performance Assessment Report is based on the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) PFM Performance Measurement Framework, Sub National Level, which includes a performance rating on 32 indicators covering the entire PFM cycle in Local Government, as in Sierra Leone, and assesses impact on budget goals. This assessment is intended to provide a comprehensive, integrated and candid assessment of Sierra Leone s PFM at the local council level, and to make recommendations for improving the local council PFM framework, institutional performance and capacity building.
Mauritius : From Preferences to Global Competitiveness, Report of the Aid for Trade Mission

(Washington, DC, 2006-04) World Bank

Mauritius is facing a sharp transition from dependence on trade preferences to open competition in the global economy. And it must do so in an unusually difficult environment. After 20 years of remarkable performance, the economy has fallen off a high growth plateau of about 6 percent toward the 2-3 percent range. The creation of new jobs is now too slow to prevent an increase in unemployment. Domestic investment has fallen, the external accounts have shifted from surplus into deficit by $300 million, and the country has sporadically lost reserves. This report, the first step in a process, outlines the trade competitiveness challenges facing Mauritius that, if confronted and managed, will pave the way to a return to a higher growth path. After the Government develops the specific actions in its program, the Bank will work with the government in costing the specific investments necessary to implement its program of trade competitiveness, and will help in mobilizing external support as part of the international community's effort put together a global program of aid for trade.