Building Effective, Transparent and Accountable Public Financial Management Institutions Project

The development objective of the Building Effective, Transparent, and Accountable Public Financial Management (PFM) Institutions Project for North Macedonia is to improve the efficiency, transparency, and sustainability of public expenditure and increase the effectiveness of revenue administration. The project comprises of three components. The first component, supporting public expenditure management reforms is to support the implementation of PFM reforms by strengthening institutional capacity and improving the processes and technology platforms in line with the new organic budget law (OBL), including the introduction of an integrated financial management information system (IFMIS), state aid management information system (SAMIS) and other GovTech solutions in North Macedonia. It consists of following sub-components: (i) design and implementation of PFM legal framework; (ii) development of GovTech solutions to support PFM reforms; (iii) development of state aid management information system; and (iv) institutional structures and enabling environment. The second component, strengthening tax administration practices and systems in public revenue office (PRO) objective is to strengthen the operational effectiveness of PRO operations with a focus on strengthening its tax compliance management system and selected management functions. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improvements in the effectiveness of revenue management; (ii) enhancing and expanding PRO’s tax revenue management information systems (ITIS); and (iii) strengthening of PRO management functions. The third component, supporting change management, donor coordination and project management objective is to build ownership and catalyze action for reforms by providing continuous support to the implementation of work under components 1 and 2 through activities focused on change management for effective stakeholder engagement, and reform management based on a change management plan (to be developed...