Brazil - Progestão Sergipe : Public Sector Management Efficiency Project under Third Phase of Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach

Overview & Synopsis

MPA Phase III - Progestao Sergipe: Public Sector Management Efficiency Project for Brazil, has the development objective to improve efficiency in public resource management in selected departments of the State of Sergipe. Component 1: Whole-of-Government Management Systems will strengthen cross-cutting public management functions through the following Sub-components. Sub-component 1.1: Human Resource Management will optimize governance, upgrade human resource and payroll systems, automate audits with analytics, strengthen occupational health and safety, digitize personnel records, build capacity, and provide supporting hardware. Sub-component 1.2: Pension Management will modernize governance and systems by deploying an integrated pension platform interoperable with human resources systems, developing dashboards and automated audits, applying predictive actuarial analytics, improving pension fund management tools, and supporting rollout with communications, capacity building, and hardware. Sub-component 1.3: Public Procurement will introduce standardized governance, processes, manuals, indicators, and acquisition strategies; implement planning and contract management tools integrated with financial management systems; upgrade the e-procurement platform; deploy an e-marketplace; provide capacity building; and supply hardware. Sub-component 1.4: Public Investment Management and Budgeting will assess and restructure investment governance; design and implement a new public investment management methodology; establish a project bank and implementation-ready portfolio; integrate intergovernmental transfers management; enhance planning, budgeting, and financial management systems and analytics; support the investment plan for a State Sovereign Fund; improve expenditure quality and management of court-ordered debt and fiscal incentives; and provide hardware. Sub-component 1.5: Asset Management will improve accounting methodologies for movable, immovable, and intangible assets; upgrade and integrate asset systems; inventory and appraise real estate with geolocation tools; strengthen data-driven governance and enterprise architecture; integrate systems; establish a government data lake; and provide licenses and hardware. Component 2: Management Systems in Strategic Sectors will enhance fiscal and operational efficiency in priority services through the following Sub-components. Sub-component 2.1: Health will strengthen governance for Social Organizations, public-private partnerships, and complementary networks and implement integrated financial management systems. Sub-component 2.2: Education will assess financial and administrative processes; implement integrated information systems for students, human resources, and asset lifecycles; develop an infrastructure and civil works management system; and build data architecture and analytics with consolidated dashboards. Sub-component 2.3: Social Assistance will review expenditures and budget execution to identify efficiency gains; implement fiscal and financial management tools to monitor and oversee transfers and execution; support communications and capacity building; and provide hardware. Component 3: Project and Change Management will ensure effective delivery through the following Sub-components. Sub-component 3.1: Project Management will strengthen project, financial, procurement, and environmental and social management capacity; adapt and integrate grievance redress into the state ombudsman system; and support communications and capacity building. Sub-component 3.2: Change Management will deliver a transversal change strategy, studies and surveys, pre-digital process reviews, just-in-time advisory and knowledge exchange, and communications and capacity building to support implementation.