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4Under Economic Management:• Technical Secretariat for Adjustment (TSA) (created in March 1995): (i) monitoringand coordination of the reform program; and (ii) design and implementation of apublic information campaign on the program;• Statistical Office: strengthening capacity with respect to (i) national accounts;(ii) household-welfare surveys; and (iii) business-cycle surveys;• State Secretariat for Economy and Planning: (i) studies on economic developmentstrategy and projects' economic viability; (ii) preparation of sectoral strategies, PublicInvestment Programs (PIP), and Public Expenditure Programs (PEP) consistent withthem and with the budget; (iii) monitoring of projects' execution and identification ofobstacles to implementation; (iv) design and preparation of a publication on economicinformation; and (v) organizational audit of the Secretariat; and• Ministry of Finance and Budget (MFB): (i) strengthening the effectiveness of thebudget as instrument of economic policy; (ii) audit of autonomous agencies;(iii) organizational audit of the Treasury; (iv) establishment of an efficient debtmanagement system; (v) rehabilitation of the payroll management system; and(vi) establishment of a Department of Economic Forecasting and Analysis.Under Governance:• Civil Service reform: (i) workshops to develop an action plan for reform, including anew statute; (ii) diagnostic study of four pilot ministries leading to reorganization andredeployment of staff consonant with decentralization; and (iii) financing ofactivities/studies resulting from the above-mentioned workshops;• Decentralization process: (i) studies on the design and implementation of thedecentralization and deconcentration process; (ii) training of officials of the centraland decentralized governments; and (iii) provision of training, TA, and equipment insupport of pilot implementation of decentralization in selected urban centers; and• Legal and judicial reform: (i) compilation and publication of business laws, andpublication of a legal periodical; (ii) reform of commercial and business laws;(iii) training and retraining of judges and other court personnel; (iv) streamlining ofthe litigation process; (v) strengthening the effectiveness of the Ministry of Justiceand of the courts; and (vi) study of an arbitration mechanism for disposing ofcommercial disputes.RELEVANCE OF OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN3.3 The objectives were relevant and consistent with the Bank strategy, in that theyaddressed the main weaknesses in public sector management and aimed at assistingGOM’s in implementing the adjustment program. However, ownership at theadministrative and technical levels was marred from the beginning as a result of the