Technical Assistance Reports
2024
March 15, 2024
Jordan: Technical Assistance Report-Developing Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process SRP Framework
Description: The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (METAC) is currently assisting the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) in enhancing its risk-based supervision through the development of a Supervisory Review and Evaluation SRP framework inspired from European Central Bank (ECB) methodology. The Technical Assistance TA mission is part of a multi-step medium-term project. The TA mission aimed to design, in coordination with CBJ, a progressive multi-step roadmap defining the major milestones for a full implementation of SRP. The mission noted that several dimensions should be taken into consideration when implementing the SRP, most notably bridging the data gap by building a fully-fledged supervisory risk database through a dedicated IT project, assessing whether the current organization of the Banking Supervisory Department should be adjusted, and progressively cover all material sources of risks in the SRP.
March 13, 2024
Principality of Andorra: Technical Assistance Report-Report on External Sector Statistics Mission (March 21–April 1, 2022)
Description: A technical assistance (TA) mission on external sector statistics (ESS) was conducted for the Andorran Statistics Department (ASD) in the Principality of Andorra in March and April 2022. The mission focused on initiating the compilation of international investment position (IIP) and in producing balance of payments statistics regularly with an improved coverage and quality. The mission also assisted the ASD in developing the new direct reporting system, which will be used as one of the main source data for compiling balance of payments statistics and IIP annually.
March 13, 2024
Principality of Andorra: Technical Assistance Report-Report on External Sector Statistics Mission (September 4–15, 2023)
Description: A technical assistance (TA) mission on external sector statistics (ESS) was conducted for the Andorran Statistics Department (ASD) in the Principality of Andorra in September 2023. The mission focused on preparing plans to improve the frequency of producing balance of payments statistics and international investment position (IIP) from annual to quarterly and to enhance the coverage and quality of the balance of payments and IIP data. The mission assisted the ASD in establishing the framework of the quarterly enterprise survey, which will be used as one of the main source data for compiling balance of payments statistics and IIP quarterly.
March 12, 2024
Guatemala: Technical Assistance Report-Public Investment Management Assessment – PIMA and Climate-PIMA (C-PIMA)
Description: [This report is available both in Spanish and English] At the request of the Finance Ministry and the Planning General Secretariat (SEGEPLAN) of Guatemala, an IMF team undertook a Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA), including the Climate PIMA (C-PIMA) module, from May 30 to June 19, 2023. The main purpose of the mission was to identify strengths and weaknesses in Guatemala’s public investment management. The C-PIMA assessed how climate change related mitigation and adaptation measures are being addressed in the public investment cycle.
March 11, 2024
Papua New Guinea: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics and Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (August 2–15, 2023)
Description: A technical assistance mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) during August 2-15, 2023, to support the authorities in improving compilation and dissemination of government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission assisted the Department of Treasury in resolving outstanding data quality issues and expanding the coverage of fiscal statistics to the broader perimeter of Government including public debt of state-owned enterprises. The mission also provided training on specific aspects of GFS and PSDS and facilitated the dissemination of PNG’s PSDS through the joint IMF/World Bank’s quarterly public sector debt (QPSD) database.
March 8, 2024
Suriname: Technical Assistance Report-Monetary and Financial Statistics Mission (May 8–19, 2023)
Description: The mission worked with officials of the Central Bank of Suriname (CBS) to review the compilation framework of monetary statistics for the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with the methodology set out in the IMF’s 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide and developed a roadmap to incorporate the accounts of insurance corporations and pensions funds in the compilation of monetary and financial statistics (MFS). Alongside these improvements, the CBS will be able to produce an updated and improved MFS.
March 8, 2024
South Africa: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Macro-relevant Climate Change Statistics Diagnostic Mission (July 17–21, 2023)
Description: South Africa faces significant climate change challenges given its high dependency on coal energy and physical concentration of nature-related risks. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change projects that extreme temperatures to be on the upward trajectory. The increased frequency and intensity of nature-related risks are expected to have profound effect on human health, access to food and water, biodiversity, habitats and ecosystems, infrastructure, and human settlements. To implement climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, South Africa needs large amount of granular, relevant, and reliable data for evidence-based planning and just transition. Against this background, in July 2023 the International Monetary Fund’s Statistics Department conducted a diagnostic mission to support the authorities in developing a workplan for enhancing the environment and climate change statistics. Discussions with the various stakeholders indicated that there was a broad agreement to prioritize (a) the establishment of a centralized environmental and climate change database with formalized institutional arrangements for coordination, data sharing protocols, and communication of statistics, and (b) development of the first set of air emission accounts and reestablishment of the energy flow accounts. In the medium-term there is need to strengthen capacity for collection of statistics on government environmental expenditures and subsidies, especially from sub sovereign governments and municipalities, and tailored technical assistance/training on carbon footprints of foreign direct investments. The mission was financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and hosted by Statistics South Africa.
March 5, 2024
South Africa: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (July 31–August 11, 2023)
Description: This technical assistance (TA) mission on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) mission was conducted during July 31-August 11, 2023. The main purpose of the mission was to provide structured training on GFS to the South African Reserve Bank, National Treasury and State Statistical Offices, as well as provide further technical assistance to strengthen the compilation and dissemination of GFS in line with international standards set out in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014).
March 4, 2024
Uganda: Technical Assistance Report-PFM Climate Assessment: Public Investment and Fiscal Risks Management
Description: Uganda has committed to an ambitious climate change mitigation and adaption agenda. To achieve this, the country has developed a sound framework to enhance climate change sensitivity across public financial and public investment management. The framework clearly allocates responsibilities, enhances coordination, and requires the identification of climate expenses in the budget documentation. However, gaps remain in some key regulations, primarily on project appraisal, and some initiatives are in early stages of implementation and need further guidance and training. The Climate Public Investment Management Assessment proposes reforms across multiple areas, underscoring as priority areas project appraisal and selection, and budgeting and portfolio management.
March 1, 2024
Republic of Slovenia: Technical Assistance Report-Data-Driven Risk Assessment
Description: This short-term expert (STX) visit focused on the use of data, analytics, and tools to help improve risk assessment capabilities. Over the course of the mission, the team conducted four workshops and five one-to-one sessions to provide guidance on ideal organizational arrangements to support data analytics, improvement of data workflows, leveraging the value of country-by-country reports, and development of data analytics/risk assessment models by using data science and big data analytics. The well-engaged SFA staff were convinced by the promising results of the new pilot risk assessment models with a solid level of commitment to apply big data anal