Domestic public resources

Fiscal Analysis of Resource Industries

The IMF Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) provides extensive technical assistance in designing fiscal regimes for natural resources. This TA typically utilizes the FAD developed "FARI" program for modeling regimes, available with manual on IMF website. To date FARI assistance has been provided to about 50 countries, and FAD has also provided more intensive capacity building on using FARI to strengthen fiscal regime analysis/revenue forecasting in about 20 countries

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministers of Finance; Ministers of Energy/resources/petroleum

https://www.imf.org/external/np/fad/fari/

Technical Assistance in Tax Policy, Law and Revenue Administration

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Minister of Finance; Heads of Revenue Agencies/authorities

Supporting the Countries with Special Needs in Asia-Pacific in meeting the challenge of resource mobilization for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

supporting LDCs (Cambodia), LLDCs (Bhutan), SIDS (Vanuatu) in meeting the challenge of resource mobilization for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Strengthening municipal public finance for sustainable urban development in Asia-Pacific

This project aims to strengthen public finances at sub-national levels, in view of Asia-Pacific's urban financing challenges & recent fiscal decentralization initiatives

Capacity building

Ministry of Finance/Revenue Authority, Ministry/Authority of urban development

Revenue Statistics

The United Nations capacity-development programme on international tax cooperation focuses on training developing -country tax administrators in the application of international tax standards, including the outputs of the United Nations Tax Committee.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Ministry of Finance, Revenue Authority, Statistical Offices

http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/global-revenue-statistics-database.htm

Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease: Tobacco Control Economics

WHO provides technical assistance to countries' Ministries of Finance officials to improve their tax policy on tobacco products. A tool developed by WHO is also provided to simulate the impact of a tax change on consumption and revenues.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Ministries of Finance and Health

https://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/en/

Global Tax Program (GTP)

The Global Tax Program supports the strengthening of tax systems in developing countries. It supports global tax activities and global public goods (Window 1); country level activities (Window 2); and actionable research and data, knowledge and learning (Window 3).

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/governance/brief/domestic-resource-mobilization

E-registrations

eRegistrations is an eGovernment system, designed to computerize and formalize simple or complex administrative procedures.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Relevant Ministries

https://businessfacilitation.org/eregistrations/

Programme for Country Partnership (PCP)

PCP facilitates the mobilization of partners, expertise and resources to achieve larger development impact: led by hos government, the PCP rests on a multi stakeholder partnership, which builds synergies and helps attract investment in priority industrial sectors and areas.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Global Relations Programme

TIWB is a joint initiative of the OECD and the UNDP supporting countries in building tax audit capacity by sending expert tax auditors to assistance-requesting host administrations.

Capacity building-Trainings

Revenue Authority

https://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-global/global-relations-calendar-of-events.htm

Maturity Models

The FTA Capacity Building Network brings together the FTA members providing capacity assistance to identify best practices and synergies in the delivery of bilateral capacity support

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Revenue Authority

Project to measure illicit financial flows

This is a joint project with UNODC and UNECA to define and measure illicit financial flows

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and Revenue Authorities

https://unctad.org/en/Pages/Statistics/UNDA-Project-1819Y.aspx

Tax Inspectors Without Borders

The Tax administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) is designed to provide an objective assessment of the health of key components of a country’s system of tax administration.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Revenue Authority

http://www.tiwb.org/about/oecd-undp-partnership/

Global Forum Technical Assistance Programme

The collection, harmonization and dissemination of high-quality comparable revenue statistics (tax levels, tax structure, changes over time), which is an essential input to tax policy, tax administration and international dialogue

Capacity building-Trainings

Revenue Authority

http://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/technical-assistance/

BEPS/Transfer Pricing Technical Assistance

Multilateral training on a range of issues - primarily BEPS, transfer pricing, and tax administration

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Revenue Authority

http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-global/work-on-extractive-industries.htm

FTA Capacity Building Network

The Global Forum Technical Assistance programme provides support to developing countries in implementing either Exchange of Information on Request or Automatic Exchange of Information, and to developing country members of the Global Forum in passing the Peer Review processes

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Revenue Authority

http://www.oecd.org/ctp/administration/

Tax Crime Academies

The BEPS/Transfer pricing technical assistance provides support to countries seeking to implement the BEPS actions, and other aspects of transfer pricing reforms.  This assistance is often provided in collaboration with RTOs and other Ios

Capacity building-Trainings

Revenue Authority

http://www.oecd.org/ctp/crime/

Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) framework

The PEFA program provides a framework for assessing and reporting on the strengths and weaknesses of public financial management (PFM) using quantitative indicators to measure performance. PEFA is designed to provide a snapshot of PFM performance at specific points in time using a methodology that can be replicated in successive assessments, giving a summary of changes over time.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy

http://www.pefa.org/user-guidance

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN)

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative enables countries to assess financing levels towards biodiversity (SDGs 14 and 15), calculate future needs and develop national finance plans.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministries of Finance, Planning, Environment

http://www.biodiversityfinance.net/

Words into Action: National Disaster Risk Assessments

A guidance document for national authorities to understand their disaster risk and conduct multi-hazard disaster risk assessments, including guidance on Probabilistic Risk Assessment, cost-benefit analysis, disaster risk reduction investment decision-making and sovereign risk financing and risk transfer.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

National Sendai Framework Focal Points and National Disaster Risk Reduction Platforms

https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/publications/52828

Risk-Sensitive Budget Review

A tool to analyze disaster trends and their impacts in a systematic manner, including economic losses. With increased understanding of the disaster trends and their impacts, better prevention, mitigation and preparedness measures can be planned and financed to reduce the impact of disasters.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministry of Finance, Economy, Development and Planning

https://bit.ly/2Ua9yZw

National Disaster Loss Databases (DesInventar Sendai)

A tool to analyze disaster trends and their impacts in a systematic manner, including economic losses. With increased understanding of the disaster trends and their impacts, better prevention, mitigation and preparedness measures can be planned and financed to reduce the impact of disasters.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

"National Sendai Framework Focal Points and National Disaster Risk Reduction Platforms

https://www.desinventar.net/index.html

Tax DIAMOND

The Tax Diamond is a technical assistance program for Tax Reform that includes a suite of tools aimed at accompanying implementation and monitoring of tax reforms.

https://www.taxdiamond.org.

Reserves Advisory and Management Program

Helps official sector institutions build capacity, strengthen governance frameworks, and invest in financial assets so they may prudently and effectively manage their foreign currency reserves and other public assets

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Central bank, national pension fund, Sovereign wealth fund, Sub sovereign disaster risk management fund, Sub sovereign government"

http://treasury.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/treasury/client-services/reserves-advisory-and-management-program

Financial Risk Management products

Helps countries protect fiscal accounts and development gains through the design of strategies and execution of financial transactions that reduce exposure to currency, interest rate and commodity price volatility and insure against natural disasters and extreme weather events

Cross-cutting/Other (please specify below):

"Ministry of Finance

https://treasury.worldbank.org/

Long-term Finance / Maximizing Finance for Development

Capacity building + regulatory support to enable local and international investors to participate in infrastructure, sustainable and development financing

Capacity building-Trainings

Ministry Finance, financial sector regulators, institutional investors

The Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR)

supports international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds. StAR works with developing countries and financial centers to prevent the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and to facilitate more systematic and timely return of stolen assets.

Cross-cutting/Other (please specify below):

Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Ministries of Foreign and Interior Affairs

https://star.worldbank.org/

Risk Assessment Support for Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing

This is an advisory package to guide countries in conducting their ML/TF risk assessment. This advisory package consists of a risk assessment tool and a systematic and organized process, with the broad participation of public and private sector stakeholders.

Capacity building-Trainings

Ministry of Finance, Central Banks, Regulatory Agencies

http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/financialsector/brief/antimoney-laundering-and-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism-risk-assessment-support.

Financing Solutions for Sustainable Development

Online platform is designed to provide practical guidance on how to weigh the attributes of the expanding array of financing instruments, and their applications in financing the SDGs. It profiles solutions across various instrument type including securities (debt and equity), grants and risk insurance, describing their characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, possible risks and potential for scaling development resources and results.

Toolkit

Ministries of Development, Finance, Planning, Private Sector Alliances

http://www.sdfinance.undp.org/

The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

LoCAL provides a performance-based grant mechanism using intergovernmental fiscal transfer systems to enable the mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into local government’s planning and budgeting systems. LoCAL increases the amount of finance available to local governments for CCA and aims to help governments access global climate finance - through the Green Climate Fund, for example - by gaining accreditation of the national implementing entity.

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Depends, but often Ministry of Local Governments, Ministry of Environment or Ministry of Finance.

http://www.uncdf.org/local/homepage

Health financing diagnostic and strategy development guides

Guidance for health financing diagnostic and development of strategic policy

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/tools/developing-health-financing-strategy/en/

Health financing progress matrix

Systematic qualitative assessment of whether health financing policy is consistent with UHC

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

https://www.who.int/health_financing/tools/progressmatrices/en

Cross-programmatic inefficiency diagnostic

Diagnostic of misalignment and duplication of functions across disease-specific health programmes

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/documents/system-wide-approach/en/

Aligning PFM and health financing process guide

Diagnostic of extent of (mis)alignment between PFM and health financing systems

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/documents/aligning-pfm-a-process-guide/en/

Health financing for UHC eLearning

Online health financing policy training in English, French and Russian (Arabic forthcoming)

Capacity building-Trainings

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/training/e-learning-course-on-health-financing-policy-for-uhc/en/

Health financing for UHC face-to-face courses

Capacity building-Trainings

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/training/hfcourse/en/

Health budget structure work

Diagnostic analysis

Diagnostic exercises/ assessments

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/topics/budgeting-in-health/en/

Syntheses and conceptual work on key health financing issues (earmarking, pay-for-performance, health insurance, fiscal space)

Summary of key issues, and guidance on specific health financing policy topics

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Ministry of Health

https://www.who.int/health_financing/topics/en/

Direct country technical assistance on health financing policy and reforms

Engagement in policy dialogue, country-specific assessments etc. through technical experts.

Technical Assistance/ Experts

Ministry of Health