The Role of Parliament in the APRM Process Presented by HON. Rose Najjemba Muyinda MP, GOMBA COUNTY/ COMMISSIONER APRM NATIONAL COMMISSION (WOMEN)

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UGANDA APRM PROCESS
National Program of Action Costing and Funding
Harmonizing the United Republic of Tanzanian APRM
- NPoA with the existing Development
Strategies and MTEF Max Ochai September 26,
2012 Dar es Salaam
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Presentation

• Purpose
• To share Ugandan experience in costing and
  funding the APRM-NPoA.
• To inform recommendations, measures, challenges
  and strategies for the Tanzanian case.

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The Story

• Critical path defined.
• Required inputs determined.
• Costs estimated and aggregated.
• Costs integrated into MTEF ceilings.
• Single budget executed.
• Challenge resource constraints.
• Recommendations get priorities right!

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Outline

• Introduction
• Concepts
• Practical Experience
• Costing, Funding and Implementation
• Key Challenges and Lessons
• Effort
• Some Recommendations
• Conclusion

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1. Introduction

• APRM-NPoA
• A comprehensive program that guides and mobilizes
  a countrys efforts in implementing necessary
  changes to improve its state of governance and
  socio-economic development (vide APRM Base
  Document).
• Integral part of CRR
• Key input into peer review process

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1. Introduction Contd

• Serves to present and clarify a countrys
• Priorities identified
• Activities undertaken
• Responsibility of stakeholders
• Derived from APRM-CSAR
• Prepared in a participatory manner
• Financed largely thru National Budget

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1. Introduction Contd

• MTEF
• a whole of government framework for supporting a
  strategic and policy-based approach to budget
  preparation
• a medium-term fiscal framework
• future costs of existing policy and
• sector strategies.
• an integral part of the Budget Cycle

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1. Introduction Contd

• Consists of
• a top-down resource envelope
• a bottom-up estimation of current and medium-term
  costs of existing policies and, ultimately,
• matching of these costs with available resources
  budgeting!

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1. Introduction Contd

• Development Strategies (DS)
• Inclusive of NPoA, provides the roadmap for
  policy priorities
• MTEF is where DS confronts budget realities
• MTEF is, therefore, critical to effective
  implementation of DS

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2. Uganda Practical Experience

• NPoA Methodology
• Desk research
• Expert panel interviews 200 units
• Focus group discussions 96 units
• National sample survey 1,588 HHs
• Country-wide consultations
• Public hearings
• Submission of memoranda by interest groups

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2. Experience Contd

• NPoA Results
• 463 recommendations were made
• o/w 307 recommendations in CRR
• o/w 156 recommendations added by APR Panel of
  Eminent Persons
• 200 recommendations prioritized
• And, costed in NPoA over three years

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2. Experience Contd

• Costing Institutional Arrangement
• APRM-NC
• Costing Team
• Professional Cost Accountants
• Technical Experts from
• Central Government MDAs
• Bank of Uganda
• Costing Team mandated to cost NPoA

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2. Cost of... Contd

• Costing Methodology
• Participatory approach
• Stakeholders
• Head of Public Service
• MDAs
• LGs
• NDP Preparation Core Technical Team
• APRM-NC

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2. Cost of... Contd

• Costing Mechanics
• Step 1 Selected a specific objective
• Step 2 Selected a required action
• Step 3 Determined critical tasks
• Step 4 Ascertained required inputs
• Step 5 Determined associated costs
• Step 6 Adjusted costs upwards, for
• Inflation, by 10 p.a.
• Contingency, by 10 p.a.
• Step 6 Validated costs

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2. Experience Contd

• Total cost estimated at US 4.9 billion, 2008/09
  to 2010/11 FYs
• NPoA was NOT resource-constrained

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2. Cost of... Contd

• Costing Basic References
• BFP, 2008/09 2010/11 FYs
• Inputs
• PPDA Budget Guidelines, 2008/09 FY
• Unit costs
• www.michaelpageinternational.com
• Consultancy rates

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2. Experience Contd

• NPoA NDP
• Thematic Paper on Governance
• NDP MTEF
• Sector Budget Framework Papers
• MTEF Budget
• Annual Budget Call Circulars

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2. Experience Contd

• Sources of Funds
• Domestic
• National Treasury tax and non-tax
• MDAs - own receipts
• LGs - own collections
• External
• Development Partners
• Multi-lateral
• Bilateral

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2. Experience Contd

• Uses of Funds
• Budgetary
• Subjected NPoA to national, sectoral and
  sub-national prioritization
• Provided for implementation of NPoA in National
  Budget, within MTEF
• Extra-budgetary
• Discretionary

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2. Experience Contd
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2. Experience Contd
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2. Experience Contd

• Disbursements
• National Budget
• Annual and Quarterly Workplans
• Annual and Quarterly Releases
• Annual and Quarterly Progress Reports
• Extra-budget
• Annual and Quarterly Workplans
• Annual and Quarterly Requisitions
• Annual and Quarterly Progress Reports

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2. Experience Contd

• Institutional Mechanism
• MFPED
• APRM National Focal Point
• Political oversight
• Funding
• MDAs, LGs and Private Sector
• Implementation
• Monitoring implementation
• Reporting progress

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2. Experience Contd

• APRM-NGC
• Monitoring, at national level
• Reporting, at national level
• NPA, as APRM National Secretariat
• Support services

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2. Experience Contd

• Capacity
• Institutional
• Equipment, systems and networks
• Human
• Technical officers and experts
• Financial
• Own and other funds

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2. Experience Contd

• Risks and Mitigation
• Perceived Risks
• Failure to mobilize adequate funds
• Inability to build requisite capacity
• Mitigation Measures
• Prioritization of critical tasks
• Performance Contracting

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3. Challenges and Lessons

• Key Challenges
• Constrained resource envelope
• assumed full support of Development Partners and
• Limited monitoring capacity
• limited influence over resource allocation

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3. Lessons Contd

• Effort
• Single account system
• Bank of Uganda
• MTEF
• Multi-sectoral
• Institution-based
• Capacity-building and -development

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3. Lessons Contd

• Lessons
• Initial conditions matter
• budget basics enhance implementation of MTEF
• Strong case for a single budget agency and for
  NDP to be co-ordinated there
• Alternatively, clear institutional arrangements
  for managing integration

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3. Lessons Contd

• Giving priority to strategic phase of budget
  preparation enhances stakeholder engagement
• Strategic management of policy and planning
  process at sector level is key
• SWGs have proven effective, facilitated by PEAP
  and NDP

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4. Some Recommendations

1. Same macro-framework for MTEF and Plan
2. MTEF process should cover all sectors
3. Budget comprehensiveness is key
4. Opening up the budget-making process to
   stakeholders as part of the development of the
   MTEF
5. Improved costing and target-setting to facilitate
   Parliamentary engagement in debate about the
   budget and the Plan

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5. Conclusion

• MTEF process is key to effective implementation
  of NPoA
• MTEF must cover whole Government
• Apply same macro-fiscal framework for MTEF and
  Plan
• Cost required inputs, for critical activities.
• Execute a comprehensive budget

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