2012 07 decentralization, governance and grp final

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The Governance Opportunity in Libya

July 2012

Hal Le

Director

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• Governance & Transparency

• Decentralization

• Enabling PFM using technology

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effectiveness gap

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participatory budgeting

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transparency

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citizen audit

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sustainable citizen engagement

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Decentralization • In over 85 countries

• Political and economic rationales

• 3 major forms

– Deconcentration

– Decentralization

– Devolution

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Decentralization Issues

• Design can be complicated

– Political, fiscal and administrative policies and institutions

• Who is doing what, and how is it financed …

• Intergovernmental Fiscal System

• How are controls maintained?

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Enabling PFM

• Practices

• Issues

• Trends

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turnkey

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IT fiscal sustainability (tco)

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human capacity

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consultants

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self-sufficient ICT & PFM

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overcome IT failure

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platform approach to modernization

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infrastructure

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focus on what is important

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diagnostics

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modernization

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Summary • Good governance and transparency requires

systems for recording government operations and having inclusive policies

• Decentralization improves public service delivery but the design and system must exist to ensure accountability

• GRP Technology is an enabler of the PFM agenda

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