Brazil - Progestão Pernambuco : Public Sector Management Efficiency Project under the Second Phase of Multiphase Programmatic Approach

Overview & Synopsis

Progestao Pernambuco: Public Sector Management Efficiency Project for Brazil. The development objective is to improve efficiency in public resource management in selected departments of the State of Pernambuco. Component 1. Whole-of-Government Management Systems strengthens cross-cutting public management through integrated digital and governance improvements. Sub-component 1.1: Human Resource Management supports workforce rightsizing, performance management, and data-driven staffing through an integrated human resources management information platform, staff surveys, and capacity building. Sub-component 1.2: Pension Management modernizes pension governance and data integration, introduces analytics and predictive tools to improve processing and forecasting, and enhances information security and service delivery. Sub-component 1.3: Public Procurement upgrades the procurement management system, introduces contract management and strategic sourcing, deploys an e-marketplace and spend analysis, strengthens value-for-money practices, integrates risk analytics for fraud detection, and builds a trained procurement cadre. Sub-component 1.4: Public Investment Management and Budgeting establishes a governance strategy and methodology for the investment cycle, integrates planning, budgeting, and monitoring systems including a project bank, links public-private partnership processes, and implements an intergovernmental transfers management system and regional development and results management tools. Sub-component 1.5: Asset Management strengthens information technology governance and cost control by mapping systems and costs, consolidating services and data management, establishing cloud governance and a process management office, implementing robotic process automation and business process management, and improving knowledge sharing for fiscal rationalization. Component 2. Management Systems in Strategic Sectors enhances fiscal and operational efficiency in priority services. Sub-component 2.1: Health conducts expenditure reviews and implements integrated systems for budgeting, auditing, and financial and workforce management in public health units to improve transparency and cost control. Sub-component 2.2: Education develops and implements an information system to manage resources transferred to schools, strengthen document control, and integrate with existing tools to support sound fiscal planning. Sub-component 2.3: Social Assistance implements an integrated management and financial system for social assistance and intergovernmental transfers, reviews procedures to improve efficiency, strengthens monitoring of funds to municipalities, and enhances data integration and accountability. Component 3. Project and Change Management ensures effective delivery and institutionalization of reforms. Sub-component 3.1: Project Management supports coordination, fiduciary management, environmental and social oversight, and strengthens grievance redress and communication. Sub-component 3.2: Change Management develops a cross-cutting change strategy, conducts implementation support studies and process reviews, provides just-in-time advisory and knowledge exchange, and delivers communication and capacity building to embed new systems and practices.