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Taking Action
Where We Work
Regional and Global Programs
Three multiple-country programs are at work on problem-solving, capacity building, action planning, and program execution.
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The FASE Program
Training and Peer-to-Peer Learning in Accounting
This program is serving Francophone African countries with professional development programs, addressing a shortage of well-trained accountants.
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GOV ENABLE Program
Co-Creation and Learn-by-Doing
Recent work of GovEnable includes holding innovative design workshops in Pakistan to help officials address bottlenecks in the delivery of key government services.
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PFM for MENA Program
Professional Development in Public Financial Management
Working in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, PFM for MENA includes just-in-time capacity-building support as well as tools and training.
Cross-Cutting Themes
Our work in our five cross-cutting thematic areas is ramping up with new programs.
Government spending priorities and expenditure choices have direct impact on their ability to achieve climate goals under the Paris Agreement. The Financial Management Umbrella Program works with countries to help shape financial management that advance the climate agenda.
Recent work includes:
- Publication of Climate Change Institutional Assessment, Disaster Resilient and Responsive Public Financial Management: An Assessment Tool and Guidance Note.
- Creation of a global database of climate indicators for 136 countries to assess governance institutions.
- Country-level work to establish resilient public procurement procedure that promotes sustainable public investments (in Albania); develop a tool that allows subnational governments to plot public investments against physical climate risks (in Vietnam); mainstreams the utilization of climate projections into country planning, budgeting and execution processes (in Kenya); and more.
Going forward, Financial Management Umbrella Program support will also include:
- Small, catalytic grants that promote continuous innovation at country level.
- Medium-term grants to scale up country-level action on climate
- Drawing on World Bank expertise and experience to identify and address gaps in client countries’ knowledge and capabilities through knowledge products, training, and consultation
Developing digital government solutions is central to many of the new programs coming on line in fiscal 2024.
Meanwhile, the Disruptive Technologies for Public Asset Governance (DT4PAG) program has been helping usher in digital government in three jurisdictions in Vietnam. Launched in 2023 following an inception phase, the DT4PAG program is connected with Ho Chi Minh City, the municipality of Da Nang, and Thua Thien Hue (TT Hue) province. The program focuses on vital government services ranging from flood warnings to land use regulations.
The Financial Management Umbrella Program supports gender-responsive public financial management approaches (GRPFM). As with other cross-cutting issues, we strongly encourage teams to incorporate gender-responsiveness into their work.
Work in this area includes:
- Developing guidance on how to operationalize GRPFM reforms, including country examples and related research findings.
- Dissemination of GRPFM good practice through:
- Focused, regional technical/operational events/workshops to exchange knowledge on GRPFM operations (including the policy, fiscal, and public financial management elements).
- Presentation of case studies and success stories.
- Providing platforms for peer engagement and support.
Depending on resources and demand, the FMUP also finances practical peer support and technical assistance that enable World Bank teams to implement approaches consistent with good gender responsiveness.
For more on GRPFM, visit the event page, Why Gender Matters: Success Factors for Integrating Gender Into World Bank PFM Operations.
Innovation is central to much of our work, both through stand-alone projects focused on generating and testing new approaches and through program-wide approaches that embed novelty within our initiatives.
Some of our key innovations that are underway now are:
- Disruptive Technologies for Public Asset Governance, which is currently underway in Vietnam and is helping deliver digital government services to address infrastructure governance more efficiently and effectively.
- GovEnable, an innovative framework that brings government officials and other stakeholders together across sectors to co-create solutions to bottlenecks in the delivery of government services and to develop cross-sector reform teams to implement.
Our work on the GovEnable program is centered on cross-sector collaboration. Cross-sector work will also be included in several of the new projects coming on line in fiscal 2024.
GovEnable design clinics run by the World Bank are at the heart of the program. The clinics bring financial management professionals together with senior officials from other affected government agencies. The education ministry is part of solving education-related issues, for example. Together they constitute a reform team.
GovEnable work is underway in Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tunisia.
