📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P172492
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 50.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 50.00 million
The project supports a systemic and multi-level approach to local basic services delivery reform: Current diagnostics (e.g., Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS)) and audit reviews (such as the annual report of the Auditor General (AG)) report deficiencies on key service processes: for example, approximately 40 percent of supplied textbooks could not be accounted for by education district offices; 54 percent of drugs supplied in 2017 and 2018 did not reach the intended districts; and undocumented payments of Le 93.3 billion are reported at the local level in FY2018. Addressing the causes of those inefficiencies requires a systemic approach. The challenges (and potential solutions) are of different nature. Some are of a more technical nature (e.g. having an IT solution for the recording and tracking of the distribution or having a payment procedures or a procurement strategy). Others are related to institutional behavioral aspects (e.g. relationships among different actors who oversee the district health or educations teams), or how to create the incentives for the schools/districts and inspectors to provide reliable data on students or for service facilities to maintain records. To respond to these challenges, the project design adopts a systemicapproach to priority needs related to basic services identified by the Government.19.Service delivery is affected by inefficiencies in the PFM systems at central and local levels.Funds allocated to MDAs are significantly lower than the amounts announced in the annual budget, and are often subject to delays, thus making it difficult to plan. Late disbursement of funds leads to delayed and unpredictable budget execution with subsequent overspending, often due to payment of arrears or unauthorized expenses, or underspending caused by delayed procurement processes or bureaucratic payment processes.14A few particular issues pertaining to the central government also influence PFM issues and practices at the district level. Notably, there are severe delays before central government transfers reach the councils, and ultimately, the district sector units and the service delivery units. At the district level, problems such as poor relationships between Local Councils and district sectoral units –(DHMTs/DEOs), weak documentation practices and reporting practices, lack of comprehensive internal auditing at LCs, and overall meager funds at the service delivery units (e.g. PHUs) plague the effective implementation of service delivery.
