High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports

In order to improve the efficiency of their capital investment and improve the access of the population to high-quality infrastructure, the Finance Ministry and the Planning general secretariate SEGEPLAN requested an IMF mission to apply: (i) the public investment management assessment (PIMA) methodology, developed by the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), to identify strengths and weaknesses in Guatemala’s public investment management and (ii) the Climate PIMA (C-PIMA) module to ensure climate change mitigation and adaptation are appropriately addressed in the public investment cycle. The mission proposed an action plan to improve public investment management.