## D4D Fund — Implementation Progress (January 31, 2023)

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### Activities Delivered (May to December 2022)
- TA Missions: 33 TA missions benefitting 26 different countries
- Regional Workshops: 7 workshops benefiting 251 country representatives from 70 different countries
- Ad-Hoc Advisory Services: 38 interventions benefitting 24 different countries
- Work plan implementation: 1/5 of work plan implemented
- Regional and beneficiary shares:
  - 1/3 of CD activities benefitted AFR
  - 2/3 of fragile states benefitted from CD activities
  - 1/2 of extended list of beneficiary countries received CD (Armenia, Jordan)
  - 1/2 of CD activities delivered in person

### Implementation Challenges and Modality Adaptation
- Continued adaptation to gradual resumption of in-person CD delivery post-pandemic, with an acceleration since September
- CD modality issues:
  - Most missions are now follow-up missions, and recommendations from previous missions need to be implemented before delivery
  - Switching back from remote to in-person CD delivery post-pandemic took extra preparation time
  - With RCDCs, to bridge capacity gaps resulting from staff turnover during the pandemic
  - With other development partners, to adjust timing to leverage complementary CD
- Timing of follow-up:
  - Follow-up missions require implementation of prior recommendations before new delivery
- Coordination and beneficiary constraints:
  - Resource constraints of recipient agencies, mainly the national statistics offices that focus on maintaining production of more traditional datasets
- Seasonality:
  - Uptick of CD activity is traditionally recorded towards the end of a fiscal year

### Online Learning and The Multiplier Effect
- Online courses already benefitted over 8,300 participants
- Offerings and coverage:
  - Number of Offerings: 9
  - Languages under development: 3
- Course areas and modules (listed offerings):
  - Quarterly National Accounts / High Frequency Indicators (QNA/HFIx)
  - Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIx)
  - Producer Price Index/Export-Import Price Index (PPI/XMPIx)
  - Balance of Payments / International Investment Position (BOP-IIPx)
  - EDSx
  - NASx: 10
  - Government Finance Statistics: 15
  - Public Sector Debt Statistics

### Financial Access Survey (FAS) — Reporting Expansion (as of December 2022)
- Total reporters:
  - 2021 Round: 165
  - 2022 Round (as of December 2022): 167
- Gender data reporters:
  - 2021 Round: 71
  - 2022 Round (as of December 2022): 82
- Mobile money reporters:
  - 2021 Round: 82
  - 2022 Round (as of December 2022): 86
- Additional details:
  - Number of jurisdictions reporting gender-disaggregated data has risen to 82 — a 15 % increase relative to the previous round
  - Four additional jurisdictions started to report data on the use of mobile money, increasing the number of reporting jurisdictions to 86, which covers roughly 90 percent of countries where mobile money services are available

### Mid-Term Program Evaluation and Donor Coordination
- Evaluation process:
  - Inception note finalized (lays out methodology, processes and timeline)
  - Evaluation Sub-Committee established (provides strategic guidance during the process)
  - Evaluation report completed (findings from desk work, interviews and surveys)
  - The evaluation was circulated to the Steering Committee
  - Volume I contains recommendations
  - Volume II contains case studies
  - Recommendations to be discussed and addressed
- Donor coordination:
  - Strategic and operational coordination is in full swing
  - Cooperating on CD to AFR (e.g., SDMX under Module 4)

### Looking Ahead (Next Steps)
- Next Steering Committee Meeting in June 2023 (consideration of Virtual, Hybrid or In-person setup)
- Work plan implementation:
  - Next 18-month work plan to endorse
  - Interim reporting on strategic log frame
  - Early discussion on Phase II

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/d4d/feb-2023/fy23h1-d4d-fund-implementation-progress.pdf_