[{"bbox": [86, 153, 399, 183], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [97, 199, 1160, 253], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that IF the activities described in section 3.2 are realised AND the assumptions hold true, THEN the following outputs will be induced:"}, {"bbox": [97, 263, 1155, 290], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Progress with the implementation of intergovernmental agreements required to reach a constitutional settlement"}, {"bbox": [97, 292, 1036, 318], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Increased Somali Government(s) contribution to funding and managing education service delivery"}, {"bbox": [97, 319, 929, 345], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Improved Domestic Revenue Mobilisation and Public Financial Management systems"}, {"bbox": [97, 356, 1160, 410], "category": "Text", "text": "IF the above outputs are induced AND the assumptions at the level of Outputs hold true THEN: \"Government(s) capacity and allocation of resources to deliver basic social services (with a focus on education) is improved\"."}, {"bbox": [97, 422, 1144, 507], "category": "Text", "text": "IF the above Outcome is achieved AND the assumptions at this level hold true, THEN the action will contribute to the desired Impact or its Overall Objective, namely: \"to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of nascent Somali public institutions in performing core state functions\"."}, {"bbox": [97, 524, 1160, 603], "category": "Text", "text": "By providing un-earmarked fiscal space, this action will **enable greater public spending in the interest of building public trust in nascent public institutions at FGS and FMS levels, thereby contributing to building a more inclusive and sustainable social contract in Somalia.**"}, {"bbox": [97, 616, 1160, 803], "category": "Text", "text": "Therefore, it is expected that this operation will contribute to a **gradual improvement in citizens-state relations and help address core drivers of conflict and political instability**: increasing the state's effectiveness and responsiveness in delivering public goods to Somali citizens will in the long term, facilitate a gradual move away from a traditional (and largely exclusionary) clan-based social contract to a more inclusive and sustainable one. In this sense, this action will build on the first SRBC - the first operation of its kind in Somalia - to promote political settlements, and power and resource sharing in order to increase state building capacities for enhanced service delivery in Somalia."}, {"bbox": [97, 814, 1160, 1107], "category": "Text", "text": "This will be achieved by **strengthening Somalia federated governments' capacity and allocation of financial resources to perform core state functions as per the provisional constitution and any new political agreements emerging out of NCC discussions.** Specifically, the proposed programme will seek to increase public investments into Somalia's education system, thereby increasing citizen perceptions of the state as a provider of basic public goods. To date, SRBC-1 and other IFI interventions/conditionality have largely focused on establishing core state administrative functions and capacities in \"centre of government\" functions (such as PFM/DRM, mainly at FGS level). By focusing on a critical social sector, in addition to progressing the fiscal settlement and reforms in core aspects of PFM/DRM, this operation intends to contribute to start **linking more explicitly improvements in country systems and enhanced fiscal resources to more and better public services.** This echoes findings from a recent WB study on Somalia's Social Contract regarding the need for formal structures to start meeting citizens' expectations when it comes to providing basic public goods such as security and education."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 17 of 26"}]