[{"bbox": [83, 118, 1147, 252], "category": "Text", "text": "Improvement of Public Financial Management has the potential of increasing domestic revenues and service delivery systems and to address key policy priorities such as climate change, gender responsive policies and budgeting and the inclusion of vulnerable groups, including persons with disability. To inform government economic and budget decisions, as well as to increase transparency for the citizens, it is key to continue supporting the improvement of quality of national statistics, including on vulnerable people and gender disaggregated."}, {"bbox": [83, 278, 1147, 410], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Building on the experience from the previous Sector Reform and Performance Contracts (ACA/2015/037-958; ACA/2018/040-874), this Action will include complementary technical assistance to respond to government demands for more capacity building to be provided directly by the EU. In addition to that, complementary actions will include a number of activities implemented with different implementation modalities. For details, please see section 4.4."}, {"bbox": [83, 425, 1147, 533], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:\nStakeholders include general departments of MEF, the General Steering Committee (GSC) for PFM, financial departments in line ministries and provincial treasuries."}, {"bbox": [83, 545, 1147, 599], "category": "Text", "text": "The governance structure of the PFMRP and the different departments of the MEF (duty bearers) are the direct targets of EU support."}, {"bbox": [83, 610, 1147, 717], "category": "Text", "text": "Indirect stakeholders are the secretariats of other key institutional reforms linked to progress in the PFM reform, line ministries, sub-national administrations, as well as the National Audit Authority and the Parliament. In the long run, all ministries and agencies will benefit from the reform programme. Cambodian people (in their capacities as public users, citizens and taxpayers) are the ultimate beneficiaries of the reform programme."}, {"bbox": [83, 728, 1147, 809], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Institute of Statistics (NIS) is responsible for national statistical systems which are key to inform and improve public financial management, notably the budgeting process and monitoring and evaluation of public policies."}, {"bbox": [83, 820, 1147, 875], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Audit Authority (NAA) is the supreme audit institution. Its audit activities are central to strengthening Government accountability for management of public finance."}, {"bbox": [83, 885, 1147, 993], "category": "Text", "text": "Civil society organisations (CSOs) including women organisations and minorities rights organisations have a key role in carrying out concrete and visible actions towards enhancing budget and audit transparency, anti-corruption, and fostering public participation and representing the citizens (rights-holders) voices in the dialogue on policy and budget issues."}, {"bbox": [83, 1004, 1147, 1163], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to support these activities, the European Union, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT, Australia) decided in 2006 to coordinate their funding efforts through a trust fund managed by the World Bank. The harmonised funding helped supporting the overall reform until 2022. In 2015, EU support to the PFM reform began to be implemented under budget support modality and a joint programme with Sida \"Partnership for Accountability and Transparency\" (Phase I 2016/2019 (ACA/2015/037-958) and Phase II (2020/2022) ACA/2018/040-874)."}, {"bbox": [83, 1175, 1147, 1257], "category": "Text", "text": "Complementary to EU support to the PFMRP, other DPs and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF-Regional Technical Assistance Centre), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are providing direct support to the Government:"}, {"bbox": [83, 1268, 1147, 1402], "category": "Text", "text": "- JICA provides support to public financial management reform since a number of years, but it recently focused on the area of customs reform. Among the key ongoing activities, JICA is working on a strategic and internationally recognized tool to measure the actual time required for the release and/or clearance of goods (Time Release study 2021), on a cross-border management study, on customs publication printing and also capacity building of General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) officers."}, {"bbox": [83, 1413, 1147, 1547], "category": "Text", "text": "- IMF finances two technical advisors to MEF in the fields of accounting, budget execution, macro-economic analysis and custom revenues and procedures. IMF Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) and Technical Assistance Office in Thailand (TAOLAM) provides technical assistance (TA) missions to monitor and advise on progress of the FMIS Phase II roll-out and define the scope of the IMF's support related to this initiative. Since August 2021 the IMF has also started to provide TA on Gender Responsive Budgeting to the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). 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