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IMF Country Report No. 23/58
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT ON PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT - PIMA AND CLIMATE PIMA
January 2023
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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Public Investment Management Assessment - PIMA and Climate PIMA
January 2023
Prepared By
Fabien Gonguet, Laura Gores, Nicolas Hengy, Ephrem Ghonda Makiadi, Pierre Roumegas and Hoda Selim
Table of Contents
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
I. PUBLIC INVESTMENT TRENDS IN THE DRC
A. Trends in general government investment and capital stock
B. Composition of public sector investment
II. EFFICIENCY AND IMPACT OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE DRC
III. PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
A. Overview of the assessment
B. Planning Sustainable Levels of Public Investment
C. Allocating Investments To The Right Sectors And Projects
D. Delivering Productive and Durable Public Assets
IV. PIMA CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT MODULE (C-PIMA)
A. Climate change and public investment in the DRC
B. PIMA Climate change module assessment framework
V. CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
A. Legal Framework
B. IT support
C. Staff Capacity
FIGURES
0.A. Institutional design (FI) and Effectiveness (EFF) of public investment management in the DRC
0.B. Institutional design (FI) of the institutions of the C-PIMA module in the DRC
1.A. General government investment: regional comparisons
1.B. Share of general government investment in total investment
1.C. Public capital stock: regional comparisons
1.D. Public capital stock per capita, 2019
1.E. Sources of financing for central government investment spending
1.F. Public investment by function: regional comparisons in 2018
1.G. PPP Capital stock
2.A. Indicators of physical access to public infrastructure - 2019
2.B. Infrastructure quality as perceived by business leaders
2.C. Insufficiencies in access to infrastructure as perceived by private companies
2.D. Efficiency frontier (physical access to infrastructure)
3.A. The PIMA assessment framework
3.B. DRC: Strength of public investment management institutions
3.C. DRC: Effectiveness (EFF) of public investment management practices
3.D. Capital budgets successively planned and voted by parliament (billions of CGF)
4.A. The C-PIMA assessment framework
TABLES
0.A. PIMA Summary table
0.B. C-PIMA Summary table
0.C. Priority Action Plan to strengthen public investment management
3.A. Kinshasa City-Province projects executed using central government transfers, 2020
3.B. Comparison of the ministerial capital spending ceilings presented in the MTEFs and envelopes approved by vote in the 2022 budget law
3.C. Comparison between the routine maintenance needs and funding available
5.A. Legal texts underlying the PIM procedures in the DRC
BOXES
3.A. Gap between investment projects registered in the budget and those executed
3.B. Country examples for the joint preparation of the capital and current budgets
3.C. Budgeting in the medium term for the investment projects of the Ministry of Mines
3.D. Example of inclusion of project maintenance costs: South Africa
4.A. Climate budget tagging
ANNEXES
Annex 1. Actions from the draft 2022-24 Priority Action Plan in connection with public investment management
Annex 2. Detailed PIMA assessment scores
Annex 3. Detailed C-PIMA module assessment scores
Annex 4. Setting up a single office for coordination and oversight of externally financed projects
Annex 5. Guiding principles for preparation of a decree on public investment management
Annex 6. Illustration of the list of relevant selection criteria
Annex 7. Principles guiding the establishment of an integrated bank of projects
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ACE | Congolese Environment Agency |
| ACGT | Congolese Agency for Major Works |
| AE-CP | Commitment Authorization - Payment Appropriation |
| AFRITAC Central | Central Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center |
| ARE | Electricity Sector Regulatory Authority |
| ARMP | Public Contracts Regulatory Authority (ARMP) |
| BCECO | Central Coordination Office |
| C-PIMA | PIMA Climate Change Assessment Module |
| C2I | Ministerial Information Technology Coordination |
| CFEF | Fragile States Finance Implementation Unit |
| CISPIP | Commission for identification and selection of public investment projects |
| COMESA | Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
| COREF | Public Finance Reform Orientation Committee |
| COPIREP | Public Corporation Reform Steering Committee |
| CPCC | Standing Council of Accounting of the Congo |
| CPIP | Public Investment Programming Conference |
| CRD | Dispute Settlement Committee |
| CRESP | Coordination of External Financing and Project Oversight |
| CSNGHC | National Solidarity Fund for Disaster and Humanitarian Management |
| CSP | High Council of the Portfolio |
| CSPP | Project and Program Oversight Unit |
| DCS | Supervision and Oversight Directorate |
| DEP | Research and Planning Directorate |
| DGCMP | General Directorate for Procurement Supervision |
| DGDP | General Directorate of Public Debt |
| DGPPB | General Directorate of Fiscal Policies and Programming |
| DGTCP | General Directorate of the Treasury and Public Accounting |
| DRB | Fiscal Risk Statement |
| DRC | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| DSA | Debt Sustainability Analysis |
| ETD | Decentralized Territorial Entity |
| FAD | Fiscal Affairs Department |
| FONER | National Road Maintenance Fund |
| GCA | Government Chart of Accounts |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| IGF | General Inspectorate of Finance |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| LOFIP | Law on Public Finance |
| M&E | Monitoring and Evaluation |
| MAAH | Ministry of Humanitarian Actions and Affairs |
| MEDD | Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development |
| MTEF | Medium-Term Expenditure Framework |
| MTFF | Medium-Term Fiscal Framework |
| NBE | Government Budget Classification |
| NDC | Nationally Determined Contribution |
| OR | Highways Office |
| OVD | Office of Roads and Drainage |
| PDL(-145T) | Local Development Plan for the 145 territories |
| PGAI | Investment and Aid Management Platform |
| PIMA | Public Investment Management Assessment |
| PIP | Public investment Program |
| PIREDD | REDD Investment Plan |
| PNA | National Climate Change Adaptation Plan |
| PNDS | National Health Care Development Plan |
| PNSD | National Development Strategy Plan |
| POG | General Operation Plan |
| PPP | Public-Private Partnership |
| PREPABUD | Budget Preparation (Préparation du budget -software application) |
| PTF | Technical and Financial Partners |
| REDD | Reduction of deforestation and forest degradation |
| RGCP | General Public Accounting Regulations |
| SADC | Southern African Development Community |
| SIGMAP | Integrated Procurement Management System (Système intégré de gestion des marchés publics- software application) |
| SNEL | Société nationale d'électricité |
| TA | Technical assistance |
| TSA | Treasury Single Account |
| UC-PPP | PPP Advice and Coordination Unit |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
