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4TH IHP+ COUNTRY TEAMS MEETING:
Sustaining and Accelerating Change,
Getting Results
12-14 December 2012
Nairobi, Kenya
JFMA Process
• For Sierra Leone to own the process a National
Counterpart Team(NCT) was formed and its
membership was drawn from key stakeholders in
Public Financial Management
• Operationalising the NCT was difficult considering its
diversity in the number of government institutions
involved.
• NCT is useful in moving forward with the road map
and contributing to the FMA report.
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Working with development
partners
• DPs had dealt directly with implementers for their respective
programmes in isolation from the central ministries
• DPs were not in touch wit the AGD in the opening of bank
accounts for the implementation of their interventions
• DP interventions to a large extent had not been on-budget
and on-treasury which has lead GOSL to miss out valuable
information particularly inflows and expenditures of health
• DPs have asked for separate reports and audits and this has
been time consuming and counter-productive for the staff
• DPs have had reasons for their past behaviors but this has
hampered accountability and transparency.
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Benefits
• Stronger risk assessment and management for all
operations financed by DPs in the health sector;
• Less frequent FM assessments, a single FM
framework and processes (partly aligned with the
country’s fiduciary framework);
• United accounting and reporting support systems
including common rules & requirements
• Single set of periodic reports and reduced burden on
production of reports with better transparency
• Single and streamlined audits with better scope and
visibility by auditors and management
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Challenges
• DPs and government to incorporate the tasks into
their functions/government institutions and work
programs (same calendar and timetables),
• DPs to develop, operationalize, maintain close
coordination/collaboration among themselves to
reduce divergent approaches
• Establishing and funding the Integrated Program
Administration Unit (IPAU) and absorbing stand
alone PIUs
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Recommendations to donors
• Draft and sign MOU which documents common FM
arrangements
• Coorporate with government for compliance with
rules– eg. opening and operating bank accounts,
align decision and approval processes with those of
the country and good practices
• Ensure adequate and timely information is provided
(eg. cost of in-kind goods delivered, informing the
Auditor General for audits, numbers for Budgeting)
• Support the MOHS for capacity building and
establishment of the IPAU and absorbing other PIUs
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Recommendations to other
Ministries of Health
• Resolve any governance issues that may exist
• Coordinate and ensure that funds accessibility is
facilitated reducing bottlenecks at the MoH
• Engage MoF to facilitate funds accessibility and
capacity building
• Better planning and budgeting process by working
with DPs to align DP-gov. budget cycle, including
preparation of realistic plans and cash-flow
projections
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Next steps
• Translate recommendations into a National Action
Plan and prepare MoU for a Joint Financial
Management Arrangement (JFMA)
• Draft Action Plan and JFMA MoU will be submitted to
the Health Sector Steering Group and discussed at
Stakeholders conference
• The MoU will be signed by the GOSL and
development partners
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