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<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Financial</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>PRSP</strong> Implementation in Malawi<br />
hensive policy direction and guidance <strong>for</strong> development. The analysis in the<br />
DDP serves as a basis <strong>for</strong> selecting programmes and projects that the district<br />
would like to implement. The DEC is responsible <strong>for</strong> compiling the DDP,<br />
while the DA is responsible <strong>for</strong> its approval. (Republic of Malawi 2001,<br />
4–23). The Development Committee (DC) thus reviews the drafted plan and<br />
finally sends it to the full assembly <strong>for</strong> approval.<br />
Funding <strong>for</strong> local development<br />
To fund approved projects, the districts– in principle – have access to three<br />
different sources of revenue, namely central government grants, locally generated<br />
revenue, and ceded revenue collected by central government (see Section<br />
6.2.2.1).<br />
There are five major transfer mechanisms to provide financing <strong>for</strong> local governments,<br />
namely the General Resource Fund (GRF), District Development<br />
Fund (DDF), Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF), EU Micro-projects<br />
Programme (MPP), and EU <strong>Public</strong> Works Programme.<br />
The GRF is a <strong>for</strong>mula-based unconditional block grant accessible to all local<br />
governments in Malawi. Although the main purpose is to provide funding <strong>for</strong><br />
recurrent expenditure of local governments, 25 percent of GRF grants are<br />
earmarked <strong>for</strong> capital investment. In the case of rural districts, these 25 percent<br />
are supposedly transferred directly to district’s DDF account. However,<br />
far more important <strong>for</strong> funding local development expenditure are the District<br />
Development Fund (DDF) and the Malawi Social Action Fund, which make<br />
up about 90 % of the capital budget of rural districts (GFA 2005, 51 et seq.).<br />
MASAF was established in 1995. The World Bank funded MASAF with a<br />
$122 million credit <strong>for</strong> the first two phases from 1995 to 2003. As most social<br />
action funds, MASAF administrative units manage nearly all processes related<br />
to identifying and financing community projects in a parallel structure<br />
to those of local government planning authorities.<br />
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