[{"bbox": [82, 147, 1167, 415], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>institutions and non-state actors.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Social</td><td>Difficulties to engage women and people from underserved groups (such as people with disabilities)</td><td>High</td><td>High</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [93, 429, 237, 451], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Lessons Learnt:**"}, {"bbox": [93, 466, 1160, 544], "category": "Text", "text": "The ongoing PFM Technical Assistance programme has shown that OCAG tends to be an ambitious institution. Although OCAG has a Strategic Plan, achieving the set targets has been challenging due to constraints such as the Government Budget and limited donor funding (currently only from the EU)."}, {"bbox": [93, 558, 1160, 635], "category": "Text", "text": "The 'Results-Oriented Monitoring Report' of November 17, 2023, concluded, among other things, that OCAG has pursued an overly ambitious pace of reforms considering the enabling environment. However, it also notes that the level of achieved results has been high."}, {"bbox": [85, 663, 397, 694], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [96, 722, 1182, 778], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is to support the EU-Bangladesh partnership. It will enable the EU to build support for priorities under the country MIP and key global and regional strategies."}, {"bbox": [96, 792, 1182, 991], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will help OCAG to understand and learn from best practises in other countries (EU Member States), which will improve the institutional capacity of the Office, help staff (with a special focus on women employees and employees with disabilities) to improve the systems and procedures in use, and to ensure better service delivery. Consequentially, this will improve Public Financial Management (PFM) in Bangladesh generally, and accountability and performance in the allocation and utilisation of public resources specifically. It will also ensure the quality and timeliness of the external audit of the GoB, which will lead to easier fulfilment of the transparency and oversight eligibility condition in the ongoing EU Budget Support programmes for education and social protection."}, {"bbox": [96, 1005, 1182, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will complement the ongoing EU PFM TA to Support the Implementation of the PFM Reform Strategic Plan in Bangladesh in the areas of audit planning and methodology; timeliness in delivery and dissemination of audit reports; risk management and quality enhancement of audit processes; and professional development and capacity building (with a special focus on women employees and employees with disabilities)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1146, 439, 1177], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.6 Logical Framework Matrix"}, {"bbox": [96, 1205, 965, 1232], "category": "Text", "text": "Given the nature of this Action a Logical Framework Matrix is not required at the Action level."}, {"bbox": [85, 1273, 706, 1306], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [85, 1338, 380, 1369], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [96, 1397, 1106, 1451], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is envisaged to conclude a simplified financing agreement with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [85, 1478, 509, 1509], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [96, 1537, 1173, 1617], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 72 months from the date of entry into force of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 13"}]