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Sierra LeoneThis agriculture public expenditure
 review (AgPER) provides key background information and
 guidance in this endeavor by presenting and analyzing
 historic data on public spending on agriculture, examining
 the efficiency of spending, and identifying areas where
 additional funds can be applied effectively to achieve
 national agricultural policy and comprehensive Africa
 agriculture development program (CAADP) objectives. The
 goals of the AgPER in Sierra Leone are as follows: gain a
 better understanding of the countrys performance in the
 context of the 2003 Maputo declaration; draw lessons from
 the past in terms of budget execution in the agricultural
 sector and identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and
 deviations from goals; seek and recommend corrective actions
 for existing and future programs with a view to improving
 their impact and making them more efficient and equitable;
 initiate the implementation of the databases and methodology
 required for conducting similar reviews regularly and thus
 contribute to the institutionalization of the process; help
 the government establish an environment and capabilities for
 results-based management, with particular emphasis on
 improving planning, execution, and monitoring and
 evaluation; and increase visibility for the government and
 the financial and technical partners over the sectors
 absorptive capacity so that the decision may be made to
 allocate more resources to agricultural development. This
 report consists of five chapters: first chapter introduces
 the strategic and institutional context; second chapter
 studies the level of public agricultural expenditure in
 Sierra Leone; third chapter analyzes the economic and
 functional composition of public agricultural expenditure
 (allocative efficiency); fourth chapter assesses the
 technical efficiency of the processes of preparation,
 execution, and monitoring and evaluation of agricultural
 budgets; and fifth chapter contains our findings and recommendations.
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Niger : Second Public Expenditure Management and Financial Accountability Review, Volume 1. Main ReportThe second public expenditure management and financial accountability review (PEMFAR II) report provides analysis of the fiscal space outlook, a review of public expenditure management, including of the public investment management system, and assessments of the public financial management and public procurement systems. The review covers the period since the 2004 PEMFAR until 2009 and the detailed analysis of public expenditures focuses on three key sectors (education, health and rural development) which represented about 52 percent of the voted budget in 2007 and 2008 and are the pillars of Niger's second poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP II). The PEMFAR II a comprehensive short and medium term (2010-2012) reform agenda which will assist the Government to prepare and adopt an action plan to improve the effectiveness of public resources management in Niger. This report constitutes the main report (volume one) of the PEMFAR II. Volume two of the PEMFAR II provides the detailed report of the evaluation of the public procurement system. The summary, after the above overview, reflects the underlying themes that emerge from the assessments of fiscal space outlook, public expenditures including public investment management, the public financial system, and the public procurement system. At the end, the summary a set of targeted priority actions aimed at improving the developmental impact of public expenditures.
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Republic of Niger : 2012 Public Expenditure ReviewThe Government's Plan for Economic
 and Social Development (PESD) 2012-2015 outlines an
 ambitious public expenditure program to foster sustainable
 inclusive growth and to improve public service delivery. The
 2012 Public Expenditure Review (PER) is the first in a
 planned series of annual PERs (APERs). The objective of
 APERs is to provide decision makers in the Nigerien
 government, domestic stakeholders, as well as Niger's
 development partners with regular information and analysis
 on budgetary developments. The APER process aims to meet
 information requirements of interested stakeholders while
 minimizing the transaction cost for government. In the
 absence of a regularly published APER, the authorities are
 confronted with frequent and often duplicative requests for
 information, which claim significant staff time in an
 already very capacity constrained public sector environment.
 It is envisaged that a "one assessment - one
 process" approach will help to reduce transaction costs
 for government while meeting information requirements of
 interested stakeholders. The APERs will consist of three
 main parts. The first part will monitor public expenditure
 performance and the implementation of public financial
 management reforms. The second part will focus on sectoral
 public expenditure issues, and the third part will analyze
 selected public expenditure issues in detail. In the context
 of the annual PER process, every second year a public
 expenditure and financial accountability (PEFA) will be
 carried out. Public expenditure management reform action
 plan has been adopted in 2012 and provides a road map for
 reforms and helps coordinate donor support in this area. The
 Bank is supporting the strengthening of public financial
 management systems through a technical assistance grant.
 This PER covers the following topics: introduction in the
 first chapter. The review's macroeconomic context in
 the second chapter, an assessment of public expenditure
 trends and composition in the third chapter, and a review of
 the volume, modalities, and allocation of official
 development assistance in the fourth chapter. Public
 expenditure developments in the health, education, and rural
 development sectors are reviewed in the fifth, sixth, and
 seventh chapters, respectively. At the end, chapter eight
 focuses on strengthening Niger's public expenditure
 review process.