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<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>PRSP</strong> Implementation in Malawi<br />
– Pooling technical assistance <strong>for</strong> capacity development <strong>for</strong> PFM:<br />
Donors play an important role in financing and organising capacity<br />
development. However, donor-financed capacity building measures<br />
are not always well communicated to and coordinated with activities<br />
of the Malawian government. The Department of Human Resource<br />
<strong>Management</strong> and Development (DHRMD) in the Office of the<br />
President does not have a comprehensive overview of ongoing training<br />
measures as donors tend to cooperate directly with sector ministries<br />
or the local government level, in part deliberately circumventing<br />
the DHRMD. In order to improve coordination and align donor<br />
activities to Malawian priorities, donors should pool their technical<br />
assistance and support a comprehensive and prioritised catalogue of<br />
systematic training measures that are closely connected to PFM re<strong>for</strong>ms<br />
and instruments. The pooled fund should be under the supervision<br />
of the DHRMD. Capacity building might be necessary <strong>for</strong><br />
this purpose in the DHRMD <strong>for</strong> this task.<br />
– New modalities to deliver capacity building <strong>for</strong> local authorities:<br />
Especially <strong>for</strong> the local level, where the need <strong>for</strong> capacity development<br />
is even more pressing and uncoordinated donor approaches<br />
have in the past undermined existing capacity, donors should consider<br />
pooling resources to directly support capacity development of<br />
local authorities. For this purpose, establishing a mini-basket partly<br />
or fully financed by donors and based on an elaborated and prioritised<br />
catalogue of capacity building activities should be taken into<br />
consideration. These activities should be (i) systematically linked to<br />
PFM re<strong>for</strong>ms, (ii) evenly distributed among districts and (iii) executed<br />
in a timely manner. They should include measures both <strong>for</strong> the<br />
executive and <strong>for</strong> the legislative branch of government. However, at<br />
the same time the mechanism must ensure that specific and sometimes<br />
very different capacity development needs of individual districts<br />
can be effectively addressed.<br />
– Strengthened support <strong>for</strong> the National Assembly to improve<br />
budget scrutiny and control: Malawi’s National Assembly is severely<br />
underfunded. In the light of development approaches such as<br />
<strong>PRSP</strong>s, budget support and programme-based approaches international<br />
donors focussed much on the executive. Currently very few<br />
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