## VITARA Reference Guide: Reform Management Specific Topics: Managing a Reform Program

_Manuals & Guides, May 13, 2024_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 13, 2024
- Series: Manuals & Guides
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400264627.069

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### Overview and purpose
- Part of a series of Virtual Training to Advance Revenue Administration (VITARA) reference guides developed from VITARA online modules.
- Provides practical advice and tips to ensure tax administration reforms are delivered successfully.
- Reviews tools and methods across planning, monitoring, and reporting of reform programs and projects.
- Addresses risk management, change control, and resolution of issues.
- Elaborates on approaches to resource reform programs with:
  - adequate funds,
  - skilled people,
  - information technology,
  - other assets.
- Explains how to manage tensions that may arise during reform implementation.
- Describes advance preparations required for upcoming changes and support mechanisms needed for successful change management.
- Concludes with a chapter on post-implementation evaluation.

### Key substantive themes and practical guidance
- Planning reform programs and projects:
  - tools and methods for structured planning and sequencing of reform activities.
  - emphasis on aligning resources (funds, people, IT, assets) with reform objectives.
- Monitoring and reporting:
  - methods for tracking progress and reporting outcomes throughout the reform lifecycle.
- Risk management and change control:
  - approaches to identify, assess, and mitigate project and program risks.
  - procedures for change control and resolving implementation issues.
- Resourcing and capacity:
  - guidance on ensuring funding, staffing, and technical capacity are in place for reforms.
- Managing stakeholder tensions:
  - strategies to handle differing priorities and conflicts that emerge during reform efforts.
- Advance preparation and support mechanisms:
  - recommendations on preparatory activities and ongoing support systems required for change management.
- Post-implementation evaluation:
  - how to conduct evaluations after reforms are implemented to assess outcomes and lessons learned.

### Subjects and keywords (as provided)
- Subjects:
  - Asset and liability management
  - Economic and financial statistics
  - Revenue administration
  - Tax administration core functions
- Keywords:
  - implementation evaluation
  - management process
  - project evaluation
  - reform program head
  - reform program management unit
  - Tax administration core functions
  - Tax administration revenue administration domestic revenue mobilization reform project management change management reform leadership communication critical success factors project risks

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