Microsoft Word pcr uzb public Finance Management Reform Project Final 7Sept2017. docx

Component 3: Project management support.
The project executing agency was the 
Treasury of the MOF. The MOF established the PMO under the Treasury in March 2008 to 
manage project activities. Treasury hired PMO personnel and provided them with office space 
at the Treasury. The PMO adopted the standard accounting system for budgetary organizations. 
The government established a PSC on 1 November 2007, headed by the first deputy prime 
minister. The PSC comprised higher-level officials at the Agency for Communications and 
Information; the Central Bank of Uzbekistan; the Ministry of Economy; the Ministry of Foreign 
Economic Relations, Investment and Trade; the MOF; the State Customs Committee; and the 
State Tax Committee. In February 2008, the PSC established a working group comprising line 
ministry staff to review technical and functional requirements, develop and endorse the 
schedule of technical requirements, and review and endorse the selection of the GFMIS vendor. 
A budget execution specialist funded by the TA supported the PMO in preparing the bidding 
documents, including the schedule of technical requirements. While necessary management 
structures were in place at the start of the project, frequent PMO staff turnover and a lengthy 
inter- and intra-ministerial approval process contributed to delays. 
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Status of Public Finance Management Reform Strategy, 2007–2018 and 
government financial management information system implementation.
The project’s 
original strategy of procuring a commercial off-the-shelf system and an implementing contractor 
responsible for the rollout over three phases did not materialize during the project 
implementation period (2007–2016). The key difference in modernizing treasury operations from 
appraisal was the government decision to internally develop the UzASBO accounting software 
that budget organizations will use, which affected the way implementation was managed. The 
Treasury and the MOF, with support from the local software developer, are responsible for the 
GFMIS rollout. The Treasury also internally supports UzASBO. The equipment financed from 
the ADB loan has been installed, is operational, and is being used efficiently. The Government 
of Uzbekistan adopted an internally developed budget classification based on the Government 
Finance Statistics Manual 2001 as part of the PFM reforms. However, compared with the 
original plan of full implementation during 2016–2018, rollout only began in June 2017 with full 
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The technical requirements were developed under ADB-funded TA on Supporting Public Finance Management 
Reform. 

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implementation expected by 2021. This means that implementation of the PFM Reform Strategy, 
2007–2018 has been postponed.