Workshop Session I: Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) Assess...icgfmconference
Workshop Session I: Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) Assessment
Frans Ronsholt, Head, PEFA Secretariat and Franck Bessette, PFM Expert PEFA
Secretariat
The first session presents the background, objectives and activities of the PEFA program as
well as the content and methodology of the PFM Performance Measurement Framework.
The session also discusses implementation issues and global adoption of the Framework
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PLEASE NOTE: The countries you choose for Part A will be the countries you refer to through Parts A, B, and C. If, for some reason, information is not available for your country at the websites cited by a particular question, please choose another country to answer that question, and NOTIFY ME and MAKE NOTE in the Project of the CHANGE.
This Project is worth 70 points. I will run the submissions through an anti-plagiarism software.
Failure to reference the websites or any other research will result in a grade reduction of 8 points in your project score.
Please include the tables provided by the websites! Failure to do so will result in half the points being subtracted from your grade.
Please note that I use Turn-It-In anti-plagiarism software. If you directly quote a source, use quotation marks. Any Turn-It-In score over 25% is subject to points being subtracted from your grade.
Economy (20 points)
Using the two countries from Part A, go to
globaledge.msu.edu (Links to an external site.)
You may also go to
cia.gov Factbook (Links to an external site.)
pages to research your countries. Please make sure you include tables from your research for each country.
Describe the Economy.
Describe the economy (using the CIA Factbook) for Country 1 (5 points) and provide table for the following economic indicators: (5 points)
Current Account Balance
Inflation
Manufacturing Value Added
GDP Growth
GDP per capita, PPP
Describe the economy (using the CIA Factbook) for Country 2 (5 points) and provide table for the following economic indicators: (5 points)
Current Account Balance
Inflation
Manufacturing Value Added
GDP Growth
GDP per capita, PPP
Infrastructure (20 points)
For each country, look up the following Infrastructure determinants –
mobile cellular subscriptions;
Roads, total network;
Rail lines;
Transport; and
Internet Users.
Do not just supply this information in the form of tables, also explain why infrastructure is important to FDI.
Country 1 – why is infrastructure important (5 points) and indicators tables and or graphs (5 points)
Country 2 why is infrastructure important (5 points) and indicators tables and or graphs (5 points)
HINT: In order to properly compare these numbers, you may want to scale these numbers per capital - divide each infrastructure indicator by population. The population is on the CIA Factbook.
Investment Potential (30 points)
Overall, what is your group’s informed opinion as to how receptive your countries are to FDI?
Which country, of the pair, is the most receptive?
Provide a well-reasoned argument using the evidence presented in Projects Part A, Part B, the Economics and the Infrastructure parts of this project.
Country 1 – well-reasoned argument (4 points), and data from Part A (2 points), Part B (2 points), and Part C (2 points)
Country 2 well-reasoned argument (4 points).
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Kena is a capacity-building service product of the Ethiopian Youth Entrepreneurs Association, with an objective to provide training, mentorship, access to finance, and market exposure to youth-founded or run businesses. It also aims to encourage youth entrepreneurship through hosting innovation competitions. The association is partnering with a diverse set of stakeholders like private and government-owned financial institutions, policymakers as well development partners, to provide such enabling services in four primary categories. The service provides: -
Training and mentorship: Through the support of development partners and policy makers the association targets to provide technical and soft skill training for young entrepreneurs who are members of the association, The training includes subjects of finance management, business development, and scaling. Furthermore includes soft skill training like time and resource management for business owners. These services will be provided through service providers both in online and offline delivery formats and will be digitally tracked to measure/evaluate the success of the trainees. Kena platform will avail such digital capital to members of the association.
Access to finance: Kena will be one of the means by which youth entrepreneurs will gain possibilities to access grant and credit forms of financing as per the service mandate of the association. Financing will be offered in three models: -,
Grant processing and mediation based on criteria set by the donors working with the association and standard information qualifications set by the association,
Investment matching through standardized members' business profiling and investor targeting
Digital credit facilitation and due diligence processing of members' businesses in partnership with private and public finance and financing institutions
Market exposure: Through stakeholder engagement and ecosystem actors Kena will host various types of business expos, networking events, and conferences, in addition, This category of engagement will also enable member exposure to attend and be part of international business expos and conferences to further their market reach as well as professional exposure.
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2. Data Reporting
ExCom urged UNEP to continue to include an item
in the agenda of each CAP network meeting
addressing reporting requirements, as provided in
decision 55/11(b) (decision 58/14)
Country programme data
Qualitative performance assessment of implementing
agencies
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3. Country programme data reporting - I
ExCom requested UNEP to allocate time in network
meetings for training on the CP web-based system and
provide feedback on the experience gained (decision
52/5(b))
Pursuant to decision 59/4 ExCom reviewed the
usefulness of the country programme data web system at
the 63rd Meeting
The Executive Committee considered whether to make the
submission of country programme data through the web-based
portal mandatory but before making such a decision requested the
Secretariat, in consultation with the implementing agencies, to
identify the reasons for which so few countries had used the web-
based portal (decision 63/4)
UNEP was requested to hold a session on the revised
format for country programme data reporting at its
network meetings (decision 60/4(b)(i))
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4. Country programme data reporting - II
Article 5 countries should have submitted 2010 country
programme data by 1 May 2011
The country programme data reporting format was
revised (decisions 54/4(f) and 60/4(b)) to accommodate:
HCFC control measures
Regulations and legislation for HCFCs
Coverage of all HCFCs
Prices of HFC alternatives and any other new alternative
At the 63rd Meeting the Secretariat modified the CP data
reporting format for which would be effective for the
submission of 2012 CP data due on 1 May 2013
(decision 63/4)
excludes CFCs, CTC and halons
includes relevant methyl bromide, TCA and HCFC
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5. Country Programme - web-based reporting
Country programme data entry at http://intranet.unmfs.org/cp
Please contact the Fund Secretariat (secretariat@unmfs.org) for
assistance relating to data submission, the web-based system or
the subsequent data analysis in the status of compliance
document
User names and passwords are available from the Regional
Network team
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6. Data Entry issues with web-based system-
ADMIN A. DATASHEET
Both right and left sides of the sheet should be
completed
Total of use by sector should equal imports +
production – exports unless there is stockpiling
Use the comments column to indicate the level of
stockpiling
HCFCs
Use the drop down box (see next slide) to add further types
of HCFCs to the “Substances” column
Specify the chemical e.g. HCFC 124, HCFC 225 since
different HCFCs have different ODP values
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8. Data Entry problems with Admin B
Many countries use the previous version of the
Excel format instead of the new Excel format or
online version and thus use an older version of the
Admin B sheet
Often countries do not answer all questions
Date format
month - day - year
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10. Data entry problems: Admin C.
Import and export data should be in metric tonnes
(not in ODP tonnes)
Make sure to enter in US dollars per kilogramme
For the number of training programmes (see slide
“Admin C - continued”:
A comment should be added indicating if the number is
cumulative or annual (annual data is preferred)
If the only data you have is for a year or a number of years,
then provide a breakdown by year
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13. Data Entry Problems—Admin D. and
Admin E.
Complete the entire section
Enter “not available” if no data
For Admin E, specify the IA so that the form
will be submitted automatically to IA
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15. CP web-based reporting – feedback
Your feedback and suggestions would be
appreciated
Have you attempted to submit your country
programme data with the web system?
If you tried to use the web system and did not
complete the task of submitting the CP data, please
explain the reasons?
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16. Qualitative performance indicators - I
At its 55th Meeting, Excom requested UNEP’s
Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP), through
its regional networks, to include an item in the
agenda of each of its network meetings addressing
reporting requirements of the Executive Committee,
including the qualitative performance questionnaire,
so as to ensure a better response to the survey in
future (decision 55/11(b))
At its 61st Meeting, Excom requested UNEP to
remind countries, at meetings of regional networks,
to complete the surveys on the performance of
bilateral and implementing agencies (decision
61/17)
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17. Qualitative performance indicators - II
In accordance with decision 46/14 national ozone
officers receive a questionnaire regarding the
assessment of each implementing agency vis-à-vis
the agency’s annual business plan
Confidential questionnaire covers 3 main qualitative
performance indicators with four point scale for
ranking implementing agency performance
(1) organization and cooperation
(2) technical assistance/training
(3) impact
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18. Qualitative performance indicators – III
NOUs have to specify a rating of 1 to 4
4 (highly satisfactory)
3 (satisfactory)
2 (less satisfactory)
1 (unsatisfactory)
NOU should also indicate on the questionnaire if a question is not
relevant to the agency concerned. Comments can also be added
The assessment report is confidential, but will be shared with the
implementing agency concerned for its comment
Next questionnaire was sent on 4 May 2011
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