National Project Implementation Plan - NVBDCP

In parallel and in support of enhancing the overall program control
environment, World Bank is working with the MOHFW to further build capacity
of the states/ districts to improve financial management. These activities
include developing an integrated financial management manual under the
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) (which includes the NVBDCP activities),
training and capacity building and enhanced audit assurance mechanism. The
enhanced audit assurance includes agreeing on specific selection criteria and
the contracting process for auditors of the state and district program
implementing entities. All of these activities are directed at improving the
country systems used by MOHFW for receiving assurance over the use of its
own funds. These, and other, actions by the government to promote and
receive enhanced assurance are additional mitigating actions that support
World Bank and other IDA integrated and holistic approach to receiving
assurance over the limited decentralized project expenditures.
11.8 Oversight by MOHFW
MOHFW/NVBDCP will provide an oversight to the project and will appoint
independent consultants, based on TOR approved by World Bank to carry out
review of the selected decentralized activities covering a sample of districts.
MOHFW will obtain the actual expenditure reports and audit reports from the
state (which will include reports from the districts) as per their internal
requirements; these will cover the totality of program activities, not just the
project financed activities.
11.9 World Bank Supervision
World Bank supervision will include a desk reviews of the results of the
oversight arrangements by MOHFW/NVBDCP, annual audited project financial
statements (which will include the funds transferred by NVBDCP to the States,
along with other central level project expenditures) and MIS information on
staffing and training, review of standard costs and units as well as training
programs; and a review of the sample of state audit reports which will be
received by the NVBDCP. In addition, World Bank supervision will cover field
visits to 4 states and 4 districts on annual basis including site visits to review a
sample of inputs, (ii) activities, (iii) outputs, (iv) program audited financial
statements for that location; and (v) overall project operations. World Bank
will also track the financial management capacity building and enhancement
activities by working in close coordination with the financial management group
in MOHFW to assess progress on effective integration of all disease including
malaria control programme control programs within NRHM. Based on the
results of the integrated implementation and fiduciary review and a comparison
of the actual costs on the basis of the information collected with the standard
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