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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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