Summary

This Implementation Completion Review (ICR) reviews the project's achievements against Logframe objectives for the four project components (Management Support, Planning and Budgeting, Budget Execution and Revenue)

Description

Following the independence of Timor Leste (TL), donors, including Australia, had introduced operational budget and revenue systems which were largely managed by international advisers. The MPFCBP mobilised in mid 2003 to migrate the operation of these systems to national staff of the fledgling Timor-Leste Budget Office and Revenue Service (TLRS) in the Ministry of Planning and Finance (MoF).

Phase 2 of the project mobilised in mid 2005, and was extended to budget execution in the Procurement Office, and also to management reform, but the project was not able to have an adviser accepted in the key Treasury area. With civil disturbances in 2006, a new Government in August 2007 and burgeoning petroleum revenues, budget appropriations grew rapidly and, at the request of the Government of Timor-Leste (GoTL), direct operational support by project advisors grew in importance relative to their capacity building activities. This change in emphasis was assisted by increased use of the project's Flexible Support Facility (FSF), managed by a Project Committee chaired by the TL Minister of Finance.

This Implementation Completion Review (ICR) of March 2009, reviews the project's achievements against Logframe objectives for the four project components (Management Support, Planning and Budgeting, Budget Execution and Revenue).

Timor-Leste Ministry of Planning and Finance Capacity Building Project Independent Completion Report [512kb DOC]
Timor-Leste Ministry of Planning and Finance Capacity Building Project Independent Completion Report [355kb PDF]