High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports
The High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report series provides high-level summaries of the assistance provided to IMF capacity development recipients, describing the high-level objectives, findings, and recommendations.
2024
November 8, 2024
Honduras: Diagnóstico de Política Climática
Description: Resumen De Alto Nivel Informe De Asistencia Técnica: Honduras: Diagnóstico de Política Climática
November 8, 2024
Republic Of Tajikistan: Fiscal Risk Management and Transparency of State-Owned Enterprises
Description: High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report: Republic Of Tajikistan: Fiscal Risk Management and Transparency of State-Owned Enterprises
November 8, 2024
Bosnia And Herzegovina: Indirect Taxation Authority – Diagnostic Review Of Progress Of Reforms
Description: The implementation of capacity development (CD) advice and reforms since a 2018 TADAT assessment shows slower progress than expected. Renewed recommendations suggest initiating a transformation program for integrated reform.
November 7, 2024
Grenada: Systemic Risk Monitoring
Description: The technical assistance aimed to build capacity to monitor and assess systemic risk for non-bank financial institutions in the Grenada Authority for the Regulation of Financial Institutions (GARFIN). The mission underlined the need to clarify the macroprudential mandate and cooperation with the ECCB to conduct the macroprudential work accordingly. A potential extension of the existing Annual Report and Accounts covering key financial stability indicators and their assessment could be considered. It further highlighted the need to revise the existing reporting templates to reflect systemic risk better. Finally, the important role of the data management system was underlined.
November 7, 2024
Jamaica: Systemic Risk Monitoring
Description: The technical assistance mission aimed to build capacity to enhance financial stability analyses and assessments in the Bank of Jamaica. It reviewed the latest available Financial Stability Report and the analytical toolkit. In particular, the mission helped the bank to estimate sectoral credit risk models to enhance the forward-looking element of its financial stability assessment. It provided several recommendations that covered the financial stability report, methodological work on the financial stability analytical toolkit, internal and external communication, and data sources and their management. It concluded that financial stability should be seen as equally important as monetary policy and supervision.
September 27, 2024
Uganda: Strengthening the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Regime
Description: This report summarizes findings and recommendations from a Fund CD mission in Uganda from August 28 to September 1, 2023, in response to a request from the Bank of Uganda (BoU), focusing on AML/CFT measures. Key areas of focus included reviewing the legal and regulatory frameworks, developing operational frameworks for consistent sanction application, and implementing AML/CFT riskrating tools. Recommendations include clarifying roles, strengthening information exchange mechanisms, and enhancing resources for effective AML/CFT supervision to align with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards and promote financial integrity.
September 13, 2024
The Gambia: Climate Policy Diagnostic
Description: The Gambia’s economic and social development is highly impacted by climate change, including sea level rise, increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall. Salinization and declining agricultural productivity lead to increased deforestation. Groundwater depletion is an emerging risk. The lack of efficient land policy, planning and forest protection lead to the expansion of agricultural and livestock activities to forest areas. Addressing these challenges through improved mitigation and adaptation policies and institutional framework will support the long-term climate resilience of The Gambia’s economy.
August 28, 2024
Dominican Republic: Assessing the Implications of a retail Central Bank Digital Currency (Phase 1 and 2)
Description: The mission helped the BCRD to assess a CBDC's potential macro-financial, legal, and financial integrity implications, and shared lessons from other countries' CBDC and digital money projects, technology considerations, practices for stakeholder engagement, and how CBDC can increase financial inclusion, among others. The mission advised the BCRD to continue the exploration of macro-financial implications of a CBDC, conduct the legal framework revisions should a positive decision of CBDC be taken, assess risks to financial integrity once a firmer design choice is made, and build up technology knowledge and capacity meanwhile.
August 27, 2024
Rwanda: Technical Assistance on Public Debt Projections and Analysis with the Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT)
Description: This Technical Assistance followed a request by the Debt Management Directorate of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) of Rwanda to develop the capacity in public debt projections and analysis. The development and discussion of DDT scenarios by officials contributed to a better understanding of debt projections across the MINECOFIN.
August 9, 2024
Seychelles: Government Finance Statistics and Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission
Description: A diagnostic technical assistance mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) visited Seychelles during April 8-19, 2024, to support the authorities in improving the compilation and dissemination of government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS). The mission assisted the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade, and the National Bureau of Statistics to broaden the institutional coverage of fiscal statistics through hands-on training and methodological guidance in deriving a draft public sector institutional table. The mission also supported the authorities in reviewing data sources, compilation, and dissemination practices for GFS and PSDS, as well as in streamlining working files for high frequency and annual fiscal statistics. This effort will help the authorities reduce statistical discrepancies and resume the submission of GFS data to STA.