Brazil - Fourth Phase of Multiphase Programmatic Approach of Progestão Amazonas : Public Sector Management Efficiency Project

Overview & Synopsis

Progestao Amazonas: 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 Amazonas. Component 1: Whole-of-Government Management Systems will strengthen cross-cutting functions through the following Sub-components. Sub-component 1.1: Human Resource Management enhances HRM governance and fiscal control by deploying a workforce right-sizing platform integrated with a new HRM system covering life-cycle, performance, leave, probatory stage, and training modules, complemented by AI-enabled payroll analytics to reduce errors and fraud, improvements to attendance monitoring and medical assessment processes, staff surveys, change management, capacity building, and supporting hardware. Sub-component 1.2: Pension Management improves fiscal sustainability through a pension management information system with analytical and projection tools, AI-enabled inactive payroll audit, a pension investment review system, capacity building, and hardware. Sub-component 1.3: Public Procurement modernizes the procurement cycle via an integrated system linked to financial, asset, and document platforms, AI tools to analyze electronic invoices and mitigate fraud, a capacity building program, an e-marketplace that includes Individual Entrepreneurs and Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs), contract management, a public works monitoring solution, and hardware. Sub-component 1.4: Public Investment Management and Budgeting strengthens governance and transparency by implementing an integrated project management system for public investments covering preparation, screening, and appraisal; establishing a project bank of appraised, implementation-ready projects; instituting portfolio governance; updating sustainable planning, budgeting, and tax incentive management systems; deploying a control and integrity system for public resources; improving public works management; conducting capacity building and staff surveys; and providing hardware. Sub-component 1.5: Asset Management enhances value and oversight through strengthened accounting audits and real estate inventories, diagnostics including energy and water use, geospatial and registry data, requirements for regularization, new asset system modules with risk assessment and decision support, ICT system mapping and cost assessment, an interoperability platform to strengthen corporate systems, governance for acquisitions and maintenance, capacity building, and hardware. Component 2: Management Systems in Strategic Sectors will improve fiscal and operational efficiency in targeted services. Sub-component 2.1: Health conducts expenditure reviews of public health units, deploys a hospital financial management information system to strengthen budgeting and expenditure control, and provides communications, capacity building, and hardware. Sub-component 2.2: Social Assistance designs and implements an integrated management system to execute programs and manage Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) resources and intergovernmental transfers, including state co-financing to municipalities; undertakes process mapping and reviews to improve efficiency, data integration, and monitoring of transferred funds; and delivers communications, capacity building, and hardware. Component 3: Project and Change Management will sustain delivery and institutionalization. Sub-component 3.1: Project Management supports the project management unit (PMU), including procurement, financial management, and environmental and social functions; adapts the grievance redress mechanism with the State Comptroller General (CGE); and conducts communications and capacity building. Sub-component 3.2: Change Management develops a transversal change management strategy with incentives, processes, and skills; carries out consulting services, studies, and surveys; conducts process reviews prior to system development; provides just-in-time support, including advisory to the State Attorney Office (PGE) and knowledge exchange; and implements communications and capacity building.