Benin, Projet de Réforme des Finances publiques pour l’atteinte des Objectifs de Développement Durable et le Renforcement de la Mobilisation des Recettes de l’Etat (Reforme)

The Reforme project aims to improve financial governance in Bãnin, both on the local and national level, and to link to the 2030 Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations on the basis of neutral, reliable, factual and accessible statistical data that reports on progress. The Agenda 2030 statistics system will therefore evolve towards transparent publication of data on a single digital platform and ensure that data from all 77 Beninese communes are integrated.

The project aims to achieve the following objective:
To ensure that the national and municipal budget cycles are implemented according to the principles of good financial governance.

The project will achieve the following results:

• Result 1: Improved quality of State expenditures (investments) and revenues (income)
• Result 2: improved monitoring of the implementation of public policies based on the 2030 Agenda in order to optimize new planning
• Result 3: better articulation between the different levels and stages of implementation of public policies

The project is divided into 5 fields of action (outputs):

• Enable a stronger socio-economic impact of (new) budget planning (CA1)
• Allow for better mobilization of the State’s own revenues (CA2)
• Improve dialogue between State and non-State actors to increase transparency and accountability in the spending of public funds (CA3)
• Enable a greater socio-economic impact of (new) investments (CA4)
• Enable improved quality of the annual report on the implementation of the 2030 National Agenda (CA5)

To achieve this objective, the following pathways to outcomes must be achieved by the consortium:

• Lot 1: quality improvement of the annual report on the implementation of the National Agenda 2030, as part of output 5
• Lot 2: provision and management of a pool of international and national experts to provide specialized technical support to outputs 1-4

The services provided by VNG International are:

• Project design and implementation
• Selection and contracting of international and local experts
• Financial and implementation quality control and guarantee
• Assisting the experts (briefing and preparing, ensuring appropriate travel, health and accident insurance coverage, arrangements relating to the performance of experts, support to reporting, payment, etc.)
• Keeping the lead party informed on progress of assignments and of any problems arising and of any matters affecting the service contract
• Support for the identification of methods and concepts
• Sharing of knowledge and competences in the management of GIZ projects
• Capitalisation of best practices of modules of cooperation of PDDC Bãnin
• Provide existing professional networks
• Exchange of lessons from other projects carried out in Africa or elsewhere
• Specialised consultancy and technical assistance (support in reporting the Sustainable Development Goal, in the benchmarking approach, in the development and the managing of a digital platform for monitoring the performance of municipalities)
• Support in activities on location
• Providing methodological advice concerning intersectional themes (gender, Leave No One Behind (LNOB), promotion of results-based management, security)