High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports
The High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report series provides high-level summaries of the assistance provided to IMF capacity development recipients, describing the high-level objectives, findings, and recommendations.
2024
November 20, 2024
India: Review and Evaluation of the Reserve Bank of India’s Stress Test Model Framework
Description: This report provides a brief summary of the purpose and findings of a technical assistance (TA) mission that was intended to review and evaluate the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s stress test model suite, which took place in April 2023. The RBI’s model suite was found to be strong and well developed in numerous respects. The most noteworthy recommendations pertain to credit risk, market risk, and macro-financial scenario design. A detailed list of 28 recommendations spanning all areas was left with the RBI. A detailed TA report accompanies this brief summary report.
November 18, 2024
Burkina Faso: Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (March 18–29, 2024)
Description: This technical assistance (TA) mission report is on government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission worked on improving the GFS of the consolidation of the general government sector, the extension of GFS coverage to include state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and on improving debt statistics. This mission is part of the implementation workplan of the Regional Technical Assistance Center of the International Monetary Fund for West Africa (AFRITAC West) and was partly funded by the Data for Decisions (D4D) Fund aimed at enhancing data quality to better inform economic policies in low- and middle-income countries.
November 15, 2024
Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Technical Assistance Project on Public Debt Projections: Scoping Mission Report
Description: This document outlines the initiation and early stages of a Technical Assistance project designed to enhance the capacity of Mauritania's National Committee on Public Debt (CNDP) in the areas of public debt projection and analysis. Following a request from Mauritanian authorities, IMF ICD staff engaged in comprehensive virtual discussions with the CNDP's Technical Committee in September 2023. A subsequent mission to Nouakchott in January 2024 evaluated the existing capacity and resources at the CNDP for public debt projection and debt sustainability analysis. The IMF team proposed adopting the IMF’s Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT), customized for Mauritania's specific economic conditions. This recommendation aims to assist the CNDP in generating reliable medium-term debt projections and analyzing risk scenarios. These scenarios include the impact of natural disasters and explore fiscal adjustment strategies via the non-extractive primary balance to achieve targeted debt levels.
November 8, 2024
Honduras: Diagnóstico de Política Climática
Description: Resumen De Alto Nivel Informe De Asistencia Técnica: Honduras: Diagnóstico de Política Climática
November 8, 2024
Republic Of Tajikistan: Fiscal Risk Management and Transparency of State-Owned Enterprises
Description: High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report: Republic Of Tajikistan: Fiscal Risk Management and Transparency of State-Owned Enterprises
November 8, 2024
Bosnia And Herzegovina: Indirect Taxation Authority – Diagnostic Review Of Progress Of Reforms
Description: The implementation of capacity development (CD) advice and reforms since a 2018 TADAT assessment shows slower progress than expected. Renewed recommendations suggest initiating a transformation program for integrated reform.
November 7, 2024
Grenada: Systemic Risk Monitoring
Description: The technical assistance aimed to build capacity to monitor and assess systemic risk for non-bank financial institutions in the Grenada Authority for the Regulation of Financial Institutions (GARFIN). The mission underlined the need to clarify the macroprudential mandate and cooperation with the ECCB to conduct the macroprudential work accordingly. A potential extension of the existing Annual Report and Accounts covering key financial stability indicators and their assessment could be considered. It further highlighted the need to revise the existing reporting templates to reflect systemic risk better. Finally, the important role of the data management system was underlined.
November 7, 2024
Jamaica: Systemic Risk Monitoring
Description: The technical assistance mission aimed to build capacity to enhance financial stability analyses and assessments in the Bank of Jamaica. It reviewed the latest available Financial Stability Report and the analytical toolkit. In particular, the mission helped the bank to estimate sectoral credit risk models to enhance the forward-looking element of its financial stability assessment. It provided several recommendations that covered the financial stability report, methodological work on the financial stability analytical toolkit, internal and external communication, and data sources and their management. It concluded that financial stability should be seen as equally important as monetary policy and supervision.
September 27, 2024
Uganda: Strengthening the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Regime
Description: This report summarizes findings and recommendations from a Fund CD mission in Uganda from August 28 to September 1, 2023, in response to a request from the Bank of Uganda (BoU), focusing on AML/CFT measures. Key areas of focus included reviewing the legal and regulatory frameworks, developing operational frameworks for consistent sanction application, and implementing AML/CFT riskrating tools. Recommendations include clarifying roles, strengthening information exchange mechanisms, and enhancing resources for effective AML/CFT supervision to align with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards and promote financial integrity.
September 13, 2024
The Gambia: Climate Policy Diagnostic
Description: The Gambia’s economic and social development is highly impacted by climate change, including sea level rise, increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall. Salinization and declining agricultural productivity lead to increased deforestation. Groundwater depletion is an emerging risk. The lack of efficient land policy, planning and forest protection lead to the expansion of agricultural and livestock activities to forest areas. Addressing these challenges through improved mitigation and adaptation policies and institutional framework will support the long-term climate resilience of The Gambia’s economy.