## Implementation Plan in Response to the Board-Endorsed Recommendations for the IEO Evaluation Report—"The IMF and Fragile States"

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 4, 2018

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### Overview
- Management implementation plan (MIP) to advance the Board-endorsed recommendations of the IEO evaluation "The IMF and Fragile States".
- Actions have resource implications: some can be covered by reallocating resources or are already in the Work Program; others may require temporary funding; a review of staffing allocations to countries in fragile and conflict situations (FCS) might call for new permanent resources.
- Actions are broad in scope and intended to be self-reinforcing if adopted as a package.
- A Management statement underscoring a strengthened institutional commitment to support FCS will accompany the MIP for Executive Board and IMFC endorsement.

### Institutional mechanism
- Establish a high-level interdepartmental FCS Committee that:
  - Reports to and seeks guidance in a formal meeting with management twice a year.
  - Is tasked to analyze internal and external coordination issues in FCS and propose new ways to strengthen engagement.
- Create an interdepartmental Technical Taskforce to support the Committee and report on progress in implementing this MIP.
- Deliverable: Board paper on Review of FCS Engagement at end-2020.

### Country engagement strategies
- FCS teams will develop country engagement strategies that:
  - Draw on relevant external expertise.
  - Explicitly allow for the social and political context and the factors underpinning fragility.
  - Lay the basis for full integration of capacity development (CD) with surveillance and lending.

### Providing more sustained financial support
- Staff is reviewing the lending toolkit for low-income countries to provide more tailored and flexible support, including for FCS, while ensuring uniformity of treatment.
- Staff will report on efforts to support FCS with protracted arrears to the Fund in the upcoming reviews of overdue financial obligations.

### Practical steps to increase the impact of Capacity Development (CD) support
- Measures already in train will be complemented by the forthcoming Capacity Development (CD) Strategy Review’s assessment of initiatives to better integrate CD and Surveillance, including in FCS.
- Staff will review the experience with provision of statistical and financial CD in FCS.
- Consideration will be given to establishing a FCS multi-donor trust fund or another suitable financing vehicle to address unmet needs for long-term experts.

### Human Resources (HR) issues
- The forthcoming phase of the HR Strategy will examine strategic workforce and career planning, including recruitment.
- Actions to ensure appropriate staff expertise and experience to work effectively in fragile states will be considered, including:
  - Introduction of a "career" playbook that provides incentives for staff to be more responsive to the needs of the Fund in FCS.
  - Review of adequacy of staffing allocations to FCS missions to ensure evenhanded treatment of the membership.
  - Stepped-up staff training on FCS.

*Implementation Plan in Response to the Board-Endorsed Recommendations for the IEO Evaluation Report—"The IMF and Fragile States", October 4, 2018.*

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