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Ethiopia Portfolio Assurance Programme Phase2

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Description

DFID Ethiopia is the largest DFID programme in Africa and third largest DFID programme globally. Strengthening the financial accountability and ensuring that UK expenditure delivers value for money in all its programmes is key for DFID Ethiopia given the significant level of expenditure. DFIDE is spending over GBP 300 million annually (Planned budget for year 2018-19: GBP 302 million; 2019-20: GBP 292 million;) on development programmes through a variety of modalities which include partner governments, private sector contractors, multilateral agencies and NGOs. Given this background, it became practical to take additional measures to protect DFID’s investments and ensure funds are reaching their intended beneficiaries, providing value for money to all the stakeholders. Ethiopia Portfolio Assurance Programme (EPAP 1), a 9-month pilot program, was thus designed, to review DFIDE highest risk programmes across a range of sectors and types of implementing partners, assessing governance and management processes and developing action plans to help improve those processes and procedures. Building upon the lessons from the pilot program, the EPAP 2 Program, was launched. EPAP 2 Program is a little different from the EPAP 1 Program which focused more on management of fiduciary risks assessment, internal and forensic audits, fund-flow tracking, and financial management. The Program is now more adaptive and flexible, and covers elements in detail, viz., governance, review of log-frame results at the program & project level, and monitoring, among others.

Objectives

1. Reviews of governance and financial management of partner organisations; 2. Strengthening of monitoring & evaluation systems; 3. Flexible, targeted technical advice. This includes strengthening of VfM measures and reporting mechanisms of the partner organizations and downstream partners; 4. Review of the safeguarding mechanisms; 5. Interpretation of finance and assurance reports; 6. Contribute to building the capability of DFID Ethiopia staff, including, partner organizations and downstream partners and government departments, in effectively managing the programme risk; 7. Managing and tackling the fiduciary risks and corruption in the programmes. The EPAP 2 Program will provide DFID Ethiopia with an extra level of assurance that its funds are being used for the purposes intended.

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Ethiopia

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