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LIDS Harvard University Law and International Development Society LRS Light Rail System LTO Large Taxpayers Office MIS Management Information System MOF Ministry of Finance MOFTC Ministry of Finance Training Center MOICT Ministry of Information and Communications Technology MOPSD Ministry of Public Sector Development MOU Memorandum of Understanding MTDS Medium-Term Debt Strategy MTO Medium Taxpayers Office NCC National Call Center OAT Operational Acceptance Testing PAYE Pay as You Earn PDD Public Debt Directorate PEP Public Expenditure Perspectives PFM Public Financial Management PGA Partner Government Agencies PIFC Public Internal Financial Controls PIT Personal Income Tax PMRS Performance Monitoring Reporting System PPP Public-Private Partnership RADAR Results Approach Deployment Assessment and Review RFC Regional Financial Center RFP Request for Proposal RKC Revised Kyoto Convention ROB Results-Oriented Budgeting ROG Results-Oriented Government SAN Storage Area Network SARA Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authority SEPD Studies and Economic Policy Department SSC Social Security Corporation ST Sales Tax STO Small Taxpayer Office STTA Short-term Technical Assistance or Short Term Technical Advisor SW Single Window TIN Taxpayer Identification Number USAID United States Agency for International Development VAT Value-Added Tax WB World Bank WCO World Customs Organization YEA Young Entrepreneurs Association USAID Fiscal Reform II Project, Quarterly Report – February – April 2011 v
USAID Jordan Fiscal Reform II Project INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The USAID-funded Jordan Fiscal Reform Project II is pleased to present its Quarterly Performance Report for the sixth quarter covering the period February 1 through April 30, 2011. The Jordan Fiscal Reform II Project (FRP II) began on November 1, 2009, when USAID and DAI signed the task order contract under the GBTI II Indefinite Quantity Contract. The project is for four years, with one optional year. The entire five-year period concludes on October 31, 2014. FRP II operates the following six components: A. Tax Revenue Mobilization, B. Public Financial Management, C. Ministry of Finance Capacity and Organization, D. Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation, E. Results-Oriented Government, and F. Government Financial Management Information System (GFMIS) ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT As with prior quarterly reports, this report is organized by the six project components. This report includes an annex on capacity building events held during the quarter. The introduction to this report includes project highlights and a summary of work accomplished by component compared to the original work plan. The six component sections discuss significant achievements and activities carried out during the quarter, and detail on work accomplished as compared to the Second Year Work Plan. Additionally, this report now includes a section at the beginning of each component reporting on progress towards Year Two Intermediate Results. Intermediate Results were included in the Second Year Work Plan and are results that can be reasonably achieved in one year. OVERALL PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS Measuring the amount of work carried out by the FRP II team in technical areas, as compared to the total amount of work planned for the entire work year, indicates that the project overall, and its components individually, are progressing more or less on schedule. At the end of the sixth quarter, FRP II had carried out 43% of the annual planned work, 23% of which was completed in the sixth quarter. For all components, the pace of execution in this quarter has exceeded the average quarterly implementation in the first five quarters, which averaged 16.8%. In terms of milestones and deliverables, of the 88 planned in the second year, FRP II has completed 23 milestones and deliverables – or 26%. It is worth noting that per the workplan, 64% of milestones were scheduled to complete during the fifth and sixth quarters. One factor accounts for most of the delay in completing many of those deliverables: the schedule of the Public Expenditure Perspectives (PEP) initiative of Components B and C. The PEP began slightly later than originally scheduled and PEPrelated milestones and deliverables will be completed in the second half of the year, rather than the sixth quarter as originally planned. USAID Fiscal Reform II Project, Quarterly Report – February – April 2011 1
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