[{"bbox": [124, 113, 1091, 954], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tbody><tr><th rowspan=\"10\" scope=\"rowgroup\">8. Markers (from CRIS DAC form)</th><th scope=\"row\">General policy objective</th><th scope=\"col\">Not targeted</th><th scope=\"col\">Significant objective</th><th scope=\"col\">Main objective</th></tr><tr><td>Participation development/good governance</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td><td>☒</td></tr><tr><td>Aid to environment</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Gender equality (including Women In Development)</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Trade Development</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Reproductive, Maternal, New born and child health</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><th scope=\"row\">RIO Convention markers</th><th scope=\"col\">Not targeted</th><th scope=\"col\">Significant objective</th><th scope=\"col\">Main objective</th></tr><tr><td>Biological diversity</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Combat desertification</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Climate change mitigation</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><td>Climate change adaptation</td><td>☒</td><td>☐</td><td>☐</td></tr><tr><th scope=\"row\">9. Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC) thematic flagships</th><td colspan=\"4\">N.A.</td></tr><tr><th scope=\"row\">10. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</th><td colspan=\"4\">Main SDG: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels (Target 16.6)<br>Subsidiary SDGs:<br>Target: 12.7 promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national polices and priorities;<br>Target 17.1 strengthen domestic resource mobilisation, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [126, 987, 237, 1012], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## SUMMARY"}, {"bbox": [124, 1026, 1102, 1607], "category": "Text", "text": "The programme follows the 'Collect More-Spend Better' approach. It aims at improving the tax system through interventions in revenue policy and revenue administration, to increase the fiscal space for financing inclusive growth and development. On the other side, it supports the implementation of Malawi's Public Finance Management (PFM) Rolling Plan, with a focus on public expenditure risks: e.g. public procurement, commitment control, payroll/pension management and parastatals, among others, leading to a more transparent and less wasteful, effective and efficient public financial management system. Thus, it addresses two key constraints to growth in Malawi: corruption and taxation. The major challenges identified evolve around work ethics and behaviour coupled with the laxity in enforcing disciplinary measures, which in the past have led to reforms being implemented on paper but not affecting actual processes and systems. Hence, this programme applies a different approach where PFM technical expertise is balanced with expertise in facilitating change in difficult environments. The approach is to focus on the underlying related 'behavioural' issue, rather than adopting a technical solution that has proven useful in other contexts. Thus, this programme incorporates sufficient flexibility to explore and learn more about the problems and to help Government devise appropriate solutions as implementation progresses. The combined approach focuses on the following interventions: (a) Automation: helping Government to automate some processes reducing dependency on human discretion; (b) Incentives: helping Government to identify and adopt incentives that encourage and accelerate desired changes in behaviour; (c) Independent oversight: introducing third parties as independent checks; and (d) Fixing problems: working with Government to fix any problems that"}, {"bbox": [607, 1666, 621, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "2"}]