Rwanda : Technical Assessment on a Proposed Credit

Abstract

The Public Financial Management (PFM)
 Sector Strategic Plan (SSP) identifies key challenges and
 proposes solutions in each program that are translated into
 a foundation for defining sector priorities and outcomes
 through FY2017-18. Improving coherence between national
 strategies, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF),
 and the annual budget process has been identified as an area
 for improvement under the first program, on economic
 planning and budgeting. In the second program, on resource
 mobilization, key challenges are inadequate resource
 mobilization, resulting in aid dependency at the national
 level and lack of discretionary revenues at the subnational
 level. Across the PFM sector, particularly under program 7,
 on PFM sector and coordination, capacity and skill shortages
 are identified as key bottlenecks. Capacity and skill
 shortages are more pronounced at the subnational level,
 especially on core PFM areas such as accounting, auditing,
 budgeting, and reporting. NISR made significant progress in
 the quality, timeliness, and dissemination of data, mainly
 in the social and demographic domain, under the first
 National Strategy for Development of Statistics, or NSDS
 (2009-14). The overarching objectives of NSDS 2 are to
 produce relevant, reliable, and timely statistics to monitor
 the progress of EDPRS 2 and to strengthen the NSS.