By Judith Ugwumadu | 27 June 2014
Mozambique is set to receive a $50m grant from the World Bank’s Public Financial Management for Results programme to help it improve health and education services.
The grant will help Mozambique’s government agencies, provinces and districts put in place PFM reforms to ensure resources are allocated efficiently and used appropriately and transparently. Specifically, the programme will target medicine distribution and school management.
Mark Lundell, World Bank country director for Mozambique, said: ‘Strong PFM and accountability systems are critical for greater development results.
‘Improvements in the supply chain of medicine availability and in school management will result in better service delivery to the people, especially to the poor who tend to be greatly affected by inefficiencies in those systems.’
Furqan Ahmad Saleem, World Bank task team leader for the project, added: ‘Improved PFM will contribute to better allocation, use and accountability for resources and to more efficient translation of these resources into results.
‘This new operation’s focus on results provides a platform to engage and align the Ministry of Finance and sector ministries through joint identification of disbursement-linked indicators that emphasise the link between improved PFM and service delivery outputs.’
