Governance Reform and Accountability Transformation (GREAT) Project

The objective of the Governance Reform and Accountability Transformation (GREAT) Project for Liberia is to enhance access to selected digitally provided public services, raise tax revenues, and improve the openness of accountability institutions. The PDO will be achieved by strengthening the use of country systems and sustainably building the capacity of civil servants to implement programs of reform. There are four components to the project, the first component being enhance access to selected public services. This component aims to support enhanced access to selected public services through multichannel service delivery, with a focus on the digitalization of public services. This component includes three subcomponents: support the digitalization of selected Ministry services and enhance citizen access through the eLiberia Portal, strengthen the capacity of CSCs to provide citizen-support to access services, including access to online services, and support the rollout of National ID system and strengthen the capacity of NIR to improve access to online services. The second component is the raise tax revenues. This component includes three subcomponents: support capacity building for the implementation of the VAT, strengthen interoperability and reach of tax systems, and support scale-up of the ongoing property tax pilot. The third component is to enhance the capacity and openness of selected accountability institutions. This component includes four subcomponents: build institutional capacity for a transparent follow-up action on audit report findings, rollout the e-GP system and enhanced transparency of public procurement transactions, launch the digitalized LACC asset declaration system and anti-corruption dashboard with public access to data, and strengthen IFMIS effectiveness and enhance compliance in budget execution. Finally, the fourth component is the project implementation, change management, and capacity building. this component includes one subcomponent:...