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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper was prepared by Edwin Rodin-Brown for the Fiscal Reform and Economic Governance project, a Task Order under the SEGIR Macro II IQC funded by USAID’s Bureau of Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade. The project would like to thank Matthew Smith and Gareth Davies for their critical inputs; and Judith Payne, Bernard Mazer, Bob Otto, Ali Rammal and Jim Elliott for their invaluable comments and suggestions. Steve Rozner and Mark Gallagher made final edits and formatting to the paper.
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................II TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. III LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES .................................................................................................................. V ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................................................... VII EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................... IX INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 1 PART 1: UNDERSTANDING IFMIS ................................................................................................................ 2 IFMIS: WHAT IT IS ............................................................................................................................................. 2 IFMIS: WHAT IT DOES ................................................................................................................................... 2 BASIC COMPONENTS OF A GOVERNMENT IFMIS ................................................................................................. 5 A COMMERICAL SOLUTION, WITH GOVERNMENT CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................... 6 A PANDORA’S BOX ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Legal Framework........................................................................................................................................... 8 Business Process Re-engineering .................................................................................................................. 8 The Chart of Accounts ................................................................................................................................... 9 Change <strong>Management</strong> ................................................................................................................................... 10 CENTRALIZED TREASURY MANAGEMENT: THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT ................................................... 10 “OFF-THE-SHELF” OR BUILD-YOUR-OWN? ........................................................................................................ 13 A PHASED APPROACH TO IFMIS IMPLEMENTATION .......................................................................................... 14 PART 2: COUNTRY CASES ............................................................................................................................ 16 SLOVAK REPUBLIC ........................................................................................................................................... 16 KOSOVO ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 IRAQ ................................................................................................................................................................. 20 KAZAKHSTAN ................................................................................................................................................... 21 UGANDA ........................................................................................................................................................... 22 VIETNAM .......................................................................................................................................................... 23 PART 3: BEST PRACTICES ............................................................................................................................ 24 STEP 1 – THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT .................................................................................................................... 24 Change management ................................................................................................................................... 25 Capacity building and training .................................................................................................................... 25 Legacy <strong>Systems</strong> and data migration ............................................................................................................ 26 STEP 2 – CREATE A ROADMAP ........................................................................................................................... 26 STEP 3 – THE MODIFIED TENDER APPROACH ..................................................................................................... 27 STEP 4 – IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................................................................................... 27 Implementation team ................................................................................................................................... 28 Steering Committee ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Start small, think big .................................................................................................................................... 29 Testing the system ........................................................................................................................................ 29 CONCLUDING REMARKS .................................................................................................................................... 30 REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING ................................................................................................. 31 ANNEX 1: CHECK LIST .................................................................................................................................. 33 TABLE OF CONTENTS III
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