[{"bbox": [86, 151, 1145, 206], "category": "Text", "text": "greater efficiency and trust among stakeholders. Activities under this outcome have been designed to strengthen analytical, technical and institutional capacities."}, {"bbox": [85, 230, 1145, 523], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific Objective (Outcome) 5: The action will aid selected line ministries in enhancing quality of spending at a sectoral level and improving the public expenditure management ecosystem regarding investment, asset management, procurement, and human resource management. These activities aim to enhance the allocative and operational efficiency of public spending. This can lead to better alignment with policy objectives, and ultimately, improved outcomes for citizens and to address the following challenges: deficient performance indicator design, poor information quality, restricted use of performance data in decision-making processes, limited capacity of expenditure reviews and lack of an effective guiding instrument for resource allocation towards climate mitigation and adaptation. As well as a lack of climate considerations in public investment and asset management, inadequate use of gender information in budgetary decisions, limited use of competitive procurement practices; and inefficiencies and resource allocation inadequacies related to the wage bill and the need for analyzing the impact of the wage bill on Guatemala's fiscal sustainability."}, {"bbox": [85, 549, 1145, 974], "category": "Text", "text": "Specific Objective (Outcome) 6: The action will assist the Congress' finance and budget commission (CFPM) and the Auditor General's Office in strengthening control and oversight of public spending. It will do so by creating a dedicated office to advise the CFPM; and by supporting the implementation of methodologies of economic and financial analysis of public expenditure and corruption risk detection models powered by Artificial intelligence (AI). The creation of a specialized office provides a structured mechanism for overseeing public financial management matters, advising on budget allocations and ensuring legislative scrutiny of expenditure decisions. The implementation of robust analysis methodologies and AI-powered corruption risk detection models enhances the Auditor General's Office's oversight capacity. Together, these activities reinforce accountability mechanisms, promote informed decision-making and foster public trust by ensuring that public funds are allocated and managed responsibly and effectively. Activities under this outcome have been designed to strengthen technical and result-oriented capacities that will lead to a strengthened control and oversight of public spending and will address main challenges encountered such as: the Congress' lack of processes, procedures and capacity that prevents it from effective fiscal and monetary policy making and oversight. As well as the Auditor General's Office challenges, namely fragmented audit processes, lack of clear and actionable recommendations and follow-up actions. Also, cumbersome and bureaucratic practices for audits, lack of risk-based economic and financial analysis methodologies supported by data analytics or artificial intelligence tools."}, {"bbox": [86, 1000, 1145, 1080], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation of these activities will contribute towards a sustainable digital transformation of government services and governance structure, as well as enhanced efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, innovation and responsiveness for an improved public service delivery."}, {"bbox": [85, 1106, 1145, 1266], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will implement specific activities in the above mentioned prioritised areas that will allow the creation of joint synergies by complementing each other. All the multiple activities foreseen (inputs) aim at obtaining the specific short-term results (outputs), which will make it possible to achieve the aforementioned outcomes. All of the above will lead to achieving the overall impact of the action: to promote e-governance, public administration modernization and enhance efficiency, transparency and accountability of public spending by supporting digital transformation and e-government solutions for an improved digital ecosystem and boosting investments."}, {"bbox": [1016, 1679, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 24 of 38"}]