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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................II<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. III<br />
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES .................................................................................................................. V<br />
ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................................................... VII<br />
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................... IX<br />
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 1<br />
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING IFMIS ................................................................................................................ 2<br />
IFMIS: WHAT IT IS ............................................................................................................................................. 2<br />
IFMIS: WHAT IT DOES ................................................................................................................................... 2<br />
BASIC COMPONENTS OF A GOVERNMENT IFMIS ................................................................................................. 5<br />
A COMMERICAL SOLUTION, WITH GOVERNMENT CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................... 6<br />
A PANDORA’S BOX ............................................................................................................................................. 7<br />
Legal Framework........................................................................................................................................... 8<br />
Business Process Re-engineering .................................................................................................................. 8<br />
The Chart of Accounts ................................................................................................................................... 9<br />
Change <strong>Management</strong> ................................................................................................................................... 10<br />
CENTRALIZED TREASURY MANAGEMENT: THE TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT ................................................... 10<br />
“OFF-THE-SHELF” OR BUILD-YOUR-OWN? ........................................................................................................ 13<br />
A PHASED APPROACH TO IFMIS IMPLEMENTATION .......................................................................................... 14<br />
PART 2: COUNTRY CASES ............................................................................................................................ 16<br />
SLOVAK REPUBLIC ........................................................................................................................................... 16<br />
KOSOVO ............................................................................................................................................................ 18<br />
IRAQ ................................................................................................................................................................. 20<br />
KAZAKHSTAN ................................................................................................................................................... 21<br />
UGANDA ........................................................................................................................................................... 22<br />
VIETNAM .......................................................................................................................................................... 23<br />
PART 3: BEST PRACTICES ............................................................................................................................ 24<br />
STEP 1 – THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT .................................................................................................................... 24<br />
Change management ................................................................................................................................... 25<br />
Capacity building and training .................................................................................................................... 25<br />
Legacy <strong>Systems</strong> and data migration ............................................................................................................ 26<br />
STEP 2 – CREATE A ROADMAP ........................................................................................................................... 26<br />
STEP 3 – THE MODIFIED TENDER APPROACH ..................................................................................................... 27<br />
STEP 4 – IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................................................................................... 27<br />
Implementation team ................................................................................................................................... 28<br />
Steering Committee ...................................................................................................................................... 29<br />
Start small, think big .................................................................................................................................... 29<br />
Testing the system ........................................................................................................................................ 29<br />
CONCLUDING REMARKS .................................................................................................................................... 30<br />
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING ................................................................................................. 31<br />
ANNEX 1: CHECK LIST .................................................................................................................................. 33<br />
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