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  "title": "Sierra Leone: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment",
  "publication": "Technical Assistance Reports, August 2, 2024",
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  "summary": "Sierra Leone faces significant climate-related challenges, including rising temperatures, unpredictable precipitation patterns, and increased risks of extreme weather events, which threaten its infrastructure and coastal communities.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The assistance assessed Sierra Leone's public investment management through the Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA).\n- Sierra Leone faces significant climate-related challenges, including rising temperatures, unpredictable precipitation patterns, and increased risks of extreme weather events, which threaten its infrastructure and coastal communities.\n- Sierra Leone was found to perform moderately well in some areas of the C-PIMA, but there were key gaps in other areas, often linked to weaknesses in the underlying public investment management framework.\n- The assistance found that addressing these persisting core public investment management challenges is a prerequisite for effective climate-sensitive public investment management."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Climate risks identified:\n  - Rising temperatures.\n  - Unpredictable precipitation patterns.\n  - Increased risks of extreme weather events.\n  - Threats to infrastructure and coastal communities.\n- C-PIMA performance summary:\n  - Moderate performance in some C-PIMA areas.\n  - Key gaps in other C-PIMA areas.\n  - Gaps often linked to weaknesses in the underlying public investment management framework.\n- Conditional conclusion:\n  - Effective climate-sensitive public investment management depends on addressing core public investment management challenges."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Prioritize remediation of core public investment management weaknesses before or alongside climate-specific reforms.\n- Integrate climate sensitivity into public investment management only after strengthening underlying PIM framework elements that were identified as weak.\n- Focus public investment reforms to reduce vulnerability of infrastructure and coastal communities to:\n  - Rising temperatures.\n  - Unpredictable precipitation patterns.\n  - Extreme weather events."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Budget planning and preparation; Climate change; Environment; Expenditure; Public financial management (PFM); Public investment spending.\n- Keywords: B. climate change objective; Budget planning and preparation; C-PIMA; climate change; climate Public Investment Management; FAD expert; FAD mission; Global; Green PFM.; IMF Fiscal Affairs Department; IMF resident representative; Public investment management; Public investment spending; Sierra Leone; Sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- tarea2024062-print-pdf\n  - tarea2024062-print-pdf (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - tarea2024062-print-pdf (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/technical-assistance-reports/issues/2024/08/02/sierra-leone-technical-assistance-report-climate-module-of-the-public-investment-management-552533"
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    "Published: August 2, 2024",
    "Series: Technical Assistance Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400281624.019",
    "The assistance assessed Sierra Leone's public investment management through the Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA).",
    "Sierra Leone faces significant climate-related challenges, including rising temperatures, unpredictable precipitation patterns, and increased risks of extreme weather events, which threaten its infrastructure and coastal communities.",
    "Sierra Leone was found to perform moderately well in some areas of the C-PIMA, but there were key gaps in other areas, often linked to weaknesses in the underlying public investment management framework.",
    "The assistance found that addressing these persisting core public investment management challenges is a prerequisite for effective climate-sensitive public investment management.",
    "Climate risks identified:",
    "C-PIMA performance summary:",
    "Conditional conclusion:",
    "Prioritize remediation of core public investment management weaknesses before or alongside climate-specific reforms.",
    "Integrate climate sensitivity into public investment management only after strengthening underlying PIM framework elements that were identified as weak.",
    "Focus public investment reforms to reduce vulnerability of infrastructure and coastal communities to:",
    "Subjects: Budget planning and preparation; Climate change; Environment; Expenditure; Public financial management (PFM); Public investment spending.",
    "Keywords: B. climate change objective; Budget planning and preparation; C-PIMA; climate change; climate Public Investment Management; FAD expert; FAD mission; Global; Green PFM.; IMF Fiscal Affairs Department; IMF resident representative; Public investment management; Public investment spending; Sierra Leone; Sub-Saharan Africa.",
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