[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1120, 473], "category": "Text", "text": "assurance of the process, and to ask what the priorities are. The ANP has benefit from the Parliaments in Partnership Programme (INTER PARES), an EU Global Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments. INTER PARES has helped ANP in preparing an Oversight Manual, which serves as guide to the Functioning of Parliamentary Commissions, with the aim to inform and support the ANP members and staff on how to perform committee oversight and legislative functions to the full extent allowed within the country's constitutional and legal framework. With the dissolution of the ANP in May 2022 this guide could not be fully implemented. The new Parliament resulting from the elections of June 4, 2023 which will be installed in the coming weeks, will need capacity building initiatives, in particular for the newly elected parliamentarians to implement this guide and thus fully play their role of control of public finance management. The Parliament's Administrative Board have just created, with the support of Portugal at the end of May 2023, an Internal Control and Audit Cabinet (GCAI) and the members of this new cabinet have not yet been nominated. Further, assistance is needed to operationalize this cabinet in support of internal auditing efforts."}, {"bbox": [97, 483, 441, 511], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)"}, {"bbox": [97, 522, 1119, 630], "category": "Text", "text": "The CSOs have the role to contribute to public expenditure management by providing a source of critical and independent information on the budget's impact on the poor and building budget literacy to facilitate debate. They can also synthesise and disseminate information on budget processes and provide training to citizen groups, the media and the legislature on budget processes."}, {"bbox": [97, 641, 1134, 802], "category": "Text", "text": "In Guinea-Bissau, there are not an available list of CSOs interested in PFM. Two CSOs that have benefited from the Pro PALOP TL ISC programme including the National Network of Youth Associations (RENAJ) and the Women Political Platform (PPMGB). It will then be necessary at the inception of this Action to conduct an inclusive mapping of all CSOs (including those representing the rights of those people living in the most vulnerable situations) that are or may contribute to effective and transparent public finance management in Guinea-Bissau. Moreover, their capacity needs should be accessed and addressed with the programme's support."}, {"bbox": [97, 826, 828, 854], "category": "Text", "text": "The main international partners active in the PFM and anti-corruption areas are:"}, {"bbox": [135, 867, 542, 895], "category": "Section-header", "text": "* EU, through the following programmes:"}, {"bbox": [97, 906, 404, 933], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Regional PRO PALOP TL ISC"}, {"bbox": [97, 934, 1124, 1120], "category": "Text", "text": "UNDP is implementing the programme PRO PALOP-TL ISC which focus the intervention on five main domains: Consolidating and strengthening PFM and domestic resource mobilisation capacities by the Ministries of Finance; improving external control and audit by Parliaments, Court of Auditors and other external control watchdogs; enhancing budget and policy monitoring by the Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) and increasing citizens public participation; strengthening peer-to-peer international partnerships among national oversight institutions; and enhancing Gender-responsive Budgeting (GRB) practices and mainstreaming. This Action will complement the technical advice and capacity building provided by PRO PALOP-TL ISC programme."}, {"bbox": [97, 1145, 253, 1169], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## INTER PARES"}, {"bbox": [97, 1172, 1125, 1386], "category": "Text", "text": "Parliaments in Partnership (INTER PARES) programme, is an EU Global Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments, which has conducted peer-to-peer parliamentary strengthening activities in Guinea-Bissau. Key output of the initiative is the development and publication of a guide for the functioning of the parliamentary committees, contributing to strengthening participation in the legislative and political oversight process. Specifically, the Guide aims to improve the environment in which parliamentary oversight takes place, build the ANP's institutional capacity for oversight, reinforce political will among parliamentarians to carry out oversight activities, provide suggestions, templates, tools, and sample documents to support committees in their efforts to perform oversight and legislative scrutiny, increase the effectiveness of parliamentary oversight."}, {"bbox": [97, 1409, 1124, 1544], "category": "Text", "text": "**TCHINTCHOR**, General Account of States preparation (Government) and appreciation (Court of Auditors). The EU is helping macroeconomic forecasting through supporting the related Ministry of Finance's information system (TCHINTCHOR) both technically and through training of its operators, with an AFRITAC consultant. It will likely resume its former support both to the preparation of the General Account of States by the Government and to its appreciation by the Court of Auditors."}, {"bbox": [97, 1569, 604, 1597], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## PATF (Programme d'Appui à la Transition Fiscale)"}, {"bbox": [1130, 1680, 1144, 1702], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "9"}]