The Public Sector Financial Management Reform Support Project will strengthen planning and budgeting capabilities through support to the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), introduce more effective systems for tracking the use of public resources through an expanded Treasury management system, improve management of the civil service size, composition and cost, and, further increase accountability through strengthened external oversight capacities. The project components are: 1) the MTEF and Budget Management component, which builds on Government's strong commitment to improve its capacity to plan and budget strategically for the medium term, through further reform and development of budget planning and management functions in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and line ministries. The main outcomes for this component are the establishment of the MTEF as the principal decision-making tool for linking budgetary resource allocations to Government policy objectives and program priorities, and, for ensuring greater budget predictability for line ministries; and, strengthening budget planning and management processes within the MoF and line ministries so that the budget is implemented consistent with the strategies and priorities identified in the MTEF; 2) the Treasury Reform and Budget Execution component, to support Treasury, especially leading accounting reform, cash management improvement, and Information Technology (IT) systems development, and, encourage accounting, cash and procurement improvement in the line ministries; 3) the Human Resources Management Information System component, will establish a mechanism to collect, process, and update comprehensive data on the size and composition of the civil service, establish an automated payroll for the civil service and ensure that the civil service wage bill is properly reflected in the budget and MTEF, and, to support decision-making on a feasible medium-term, civil service reform strategy that leads to improvements in performance of personnel management functions; and, 4) the Public Accountability and Oversight of Public Financial Management component will facilitate the strengthening of the Chamber of Control's operations, and structure, development and implementation of a training program on external auditing. Additionally, the component will help institutionalizing the budget process mechanisms within, and from the Executive that will enable public accountability.
