Status of the Implementation of the Harmonization Action Plan until April 15 2005

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Status of the Implementation of the Harmonization
Action Plan until April 15 2005

• High Level Forum
• 25 April 2005

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Identified Priority Areas for Harmonization
Action Plan

• Procurement
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Financial Reporting and Disbursement

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A) Procurement Procedures

• A1 Implement Action Plan of the procurement
  reform program
• The legislation has been passed in December 2004.
• The Proclamation establishes Public Procurement
  Agency which is now in the process of hiring its
  personnel and expected to be operational some
  time before the end of this EFY.
• The standardized procurement documents have been
  produced and are now in the process of being
  translated.
• The procurement directive is revised and is for
  final discussions with the sector ministries and
  regions.
• A training for key staff on the legislation is
  planned for May 2005.

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A) Procurement Procedures

• A2 Align with Government procurement procedures
• The review of donors in house procurement
  procedures seems to be delayed.

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B) Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation

• B3 Funding and Resource Allocation for monitoring
  and evaluation framework
• Donors are committed for providing Government
  with continuous support for ME in the context of
  SDPRP
• Donors that provide budget support aligned there
  system with the government Reporting, Monitoring
  and Evaluation system
• Donors that implement project are still using
  their own procedures
• B4 Harmonized and aligned reporting systems
• Work on common reporting formats has started, but
  there are no drafts yet.
• B5 Rationalize review missions
• A calendar of missions is circulated as of
  February 2005.
• Database maintained by secretariat
• No agreement was reached regarding a silent
  period

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B) Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation

• B6 Participate in OECD / DAG work to enhance
  monitoring and evaluation
• Attendance of Government of Ethiopia in Paris
  Meeting on Harmonization
• B7 Monitoring and evaluation system adequacy
  related to APR production
• The APR for the second year implementation of the
  SDPRP was finalized and discussed on the APR
  meeting held in Feb. 2005.
• B8 Use Aid Management Platform as a common and
  similar reporting format
• System development is on-going and expected to be
  completed soon
• Proposal has been prepared by MoFED and submitted
  for consideration to DAG.
• B9 Monitor the implementation of Harmonization
  Action Plan on a regular basis
• Report at this meeting

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C) Financial Reporting and Disbursement Procedures

• C1 Implement Action Plan of the expenditure
  management and control
• Formulation of Action Plan completed
• Steering Committee has been formulated
• Implmentation of the different projects under the
  program is on going
• C3 Undertake joint missions
• JBSM stablized into a cycle of two missions per
  year
• Joint Budget Review and Aid Mission and Fiduciary
  Assessment have been conducted as planned.
• C4 Develop an Integrated Financial Management
  Information System
• Ongoing, the document will be revised and be part
  of the SDPRP II.

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C) Financial Reporting and Disbursement Procedures

• C8 Provide accurate and timely projections in the
  required format
• Some donors were able to make multi year funding
  commitments, but more work is still needed.
• DBS partners agreed to provide multi year
  disbursement projection on regular basis
• Getting multi year disbursement projection for
  non DBS donors are still a major problem
• Additional work that is ongoing , but not
  reflected in the Harmonization Action plan
• Implementation of Result Oriented Performance
  Evaluation System (ROPE) at federal and Regional
  level
• Adoption of the Public Service improvement
  Program

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Summary

• Considerable progress has been made in
  harmonizing macro-economic support to Ethiopia
• No. of partners provided DBS has increased
  steadily.
• Improvements have been made on predictability of
  budget support. But there is still a long way to
  go
• There is no much progress in harmonizing or
  lowering transaction costs in non-budget support
  forms of assistance

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Next Steps

• Discussions of an MOU / Declaration to support
  the Harmonization process
• Update of the Harmonization Action Plan
  reflecting the Paris Forum

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• Thank you for your attention