The Gambia - Institutional Support for Economic and Financial Governance Phase III Project

Project Summary

Approval Date	23 Sep 2015
Signature Date	26 Oct 2015
Planned Completion Date	31 Jul 2022
Last Disbursement Planned Date	31 Jul 2022
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Multi-Sector
DAC Sector Code	11330
Environmental Category	3
Commitment	U.A 2,000,000
Status	Completion

Project General Description

The Institutional Support for Economic and Financial Governance Phase III Project (ISEFG III) is designed to strengthen the capacities of key public institutions engaged in public financial management. The project will help consolidating the gains from the previous two phases (ISEFG I & II) and address the new emerging challenges. The project aims to promote inclusive growth and macro-economic stability by enhancing domestic resource mobilization and reinforcing fiscal discipline through improved transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness of resource allocation and execution in line with pro-poor policies. It is anchored around the recommendations from the 2014 PEFA (Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability) and the priorities of the Public Financial Management Reforms Comprehensive Strategy (2012-2016). In the short run, the expected project outcomes are: (i) enhanced domestic resources mobilization; and (ii) greater strategic allocation, expenditures control, transparency, and scrutiny of government budget. In the long run, this will strengthen and leverage the impact of the national budget on delivery of services, and poverty reduction more broadly.

Project Objectives

The overarching goal of the project is to promote inclusive growth and macroeconomic stability by enhancing financial governance through improved domestic resources mobilization and a more effective public financial management system.

Beneficiaries

The direct beneficiaries of this project will be the Gambia Revenue Authority, Gambia Public Procurement Authority, Women’s bureau, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, National Audit Office, and the Finance and Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly. The private sector including women entrepreneurs will be indirect beneficiaries through the establishment of the Gambia Institute of Chartered Accountants and the effectiveness of the tax and customs administration. Indirect beneficiaries will also include broader population of The Gambia through improved allocation, execution and scrutiny of public expenditures which should help to ensure that public resources are allocated to, and used in the delivery of relevant, efficient and effective public services.

Participating Organization

Funding

African Development Fund

Implementing

Department of State for Finance and Economic Affairs (DOSFEA)

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-GM-K00-011
Last Update	01 Feb 2023

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Contact Details

Name	BANGURA Ibrahim Ansu
Email	i.bangura@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Gambia

Coordinates	Location Name
13.4527 -16.578	Banjul

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Grant Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	Other Technical Assistance

Commitments

U.A 2,000,000

African Development Fund

U.A 2,000,000

Disbursements

Document Type	Language	Document
Appraisal report	fr	Gambie - Projet d’appui institutionnel à la gouvernance économique et financière - Phase III - 09 2015
Appraisal report	en	The Gambia - Institutional Support for Economic and Financial Governance Phase III Project-09 2015
General Procurement Notice	en	GPN – Gambia - Institutional Support for Economic and Financial Governance ISEFG III Project
Expression of interest	en	viewer
Expression of interest	en	viewer
Evaluation Report	en	viewer
Evaluation Report	en	viewer
Evaluation Report	en	viewer
Evaluation Report	en	viewer
Contract	en	listing of awarded contracts from 2015 to 2020 as at february 2021
Expression of interest	en	ppm - gambia - institutional support project for economic and financial governance phase iii project

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value	Actual Year	Actual Value
Taxes as a percent of GDP	%	2015	14	2021	12,4
Number of sector budget gender mainstreamed	Number	2015	6	2021	0
Effectiveness of internal audit systems	Score	2015	80	2021	50
Number of ex-post reviews conducted of Procurement organizations including women’s bureau	%	2015	100	2021	104
Number of audit reports on government financial statements examined by the National Assembly and published inthe NAO Web portal	Number	2015	5	2021	8
Upgrade from ASYCUDA++ to ASYCUDA World	None	2015	ASYCUDA World upgrade	2021	No ASYCUDA World
Number of tax auditors trained in modern auditing techniques	Number	2015	10	2021	6
Number of tax auditors trained in modern auditing techniques - of which women	Number	2015	4	2021	3
Audit software in use by Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA)	None	2015	Procurement and use of audit software	2021	No audit software
Number of Gambia Public Procurement Authority (GPPA) staff trained on public procurement	Number	2015	10	2021	10
Number of procuring organizations trained on public procurement	Number	2015	30	2021	11
Number of national audit office trained on public procurement	Number	2015	5	2021	0
Number of national assembly trained on public procurement	Number	2015	5	2021	0
Number of suppliers trained on public procurement	Number	2015	30	2021	115
Number of suppliers trained on public procurement - of which women	Number	2015	20	2021	45
Gambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (GICA) secretariat established and functional	None	2015	Functional GICA	2021	No functional GICA
Web portal for National Audit Office established	None	2015	Web-portal for NAO	2021	No web-portal for NAO
Number of people trained on Gender Based Budgeting	Number	2015	35	2021	35
Research on Gender Assessment conducted	None	2015	Research on gender assessment done	2021	No gender assessment research
Number of report on women activities (AWA Magazine) for Awareness published	Number	2015	6	2021	1
Number of people trained on monitoring and evaluation techniques	Number	2015	10	2021	10