Shadad & Associates

• Adopt a credible macroeconomic adjustment and microeconomic restructuring strategy to address the steep decline in oil revenues.

• Step up progress in the civil service reform agenda.

• Make further progress in coordinating donor activities and increasing the information base on these activities.

• Develop coherent and prioritised sector strategies around which donors can align their activities.

• Assess the extent to which the positive lessons from the experience of SFD and PWP can be integrated into and replicated across other areas of government, and rationalise the existing structure of Project Implementation Units to maximise their positive impact and reduce the dangers that such arrangements might fragment aid or take capacity out of government.

• Approve the detailed PFM reform implementation action plan and renew efforts to improve transparency and comprehensiveness of budgetary processes.

• Address inconsistencies in the Law on Local Authorities and sectoral strategies in order to put conditions in place for increased aid absorption capacity at the local level.

• Deepen anti-corruption efforts already undertaken by approval and implementation of the anti-corruption law, and formulate strategies for combating corruption in donor-funded project to enhance confidence of donors in GoY reform programmes.