Contribution to Joint Budget Support Framework - Techn. & Adm. Support Unit



Contract partner: IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 200.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2010 End: 31.10.2014

Short Description:

Overall goal


Austria participates in the Joint Budget Support Framework (JBSF) which brings together all development partners providing budget support to the Government of Uganda. In order to effectively implement the JBSF, the development partners pool resources for the administration of the JBSF and the provision of technical and analytical research to inform policy design and dialogue. The Multi-Donor Trust Fund is an instrument to finance these administrative and technical underpinnings for budget support provision. It places strong emphasis on high-level analytical and research capacity to provide a solid foundation for policy framework development and assessment. The trust fund is executed by the World Bank and established for the duration January 2010 to June 2013. The total budget is estimated at $7.8 million.

The objective is to strengthen the Government's policy program by providing an analytical foundation for, and improving the administration of the JBSF.

This will be achieved through the establishment of a Technical and Administrative Support Unit, which will provide research and advice as well as administrative support to the JBSF Technical and Policy Dialogue Taskforce that can inform Government's policy choices and implementation strategies.

Through these activities the trust fund is expected to have impact at three levels: (i) at the policy level, through support to a more structured and evidence-based policy dialogue between Government and Development Partners; (ii) at the budgeting and planning level, by reducing transaction costs and increasing the predictability and reliability of budget support disbursements; and (iii) at the technical implementation level, by providing technical analysis and operational advice to Sector Working Groups.

project number 2640-00/2010
source of funding OEZA
sector Andere multisektorielle Maßnahmen
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.