Public Financial Management

Project Information

OPM has been contracted by DFID to provide Public Financial Management support to the Government of Sierra Leone.

The OPM team has been providing regular inputs for tasks including:

• Advising the Government on public financial management issues and ways of reducing fiduciary risk to direct budgetary support
• Supporting the Government/Donor Public Financial Management Oversight Committee, which monitors an integrated PFM reform programme (Common Action Plan)
• Supporting the Procurement Steering Committee on the programme of procurement reform
• Actively promoting co-ordination of donor inputs to public financial management reform to maximize efficiency and effectiveness and minimizing transaction costs to the Government.
• Developing a comprehensive programme for strengthening debt management
• Reviewing and commenting on proposed revisions to the financial regulations and PFM diagnostic work carried out by other teams (such as the PEFA review)
• Working closely with Bank and DFID Economists on developing a multi-donor budget support system.
• Advising on the World Bank public financial management component of the Institutional Reform and Capacity Building Project