ORSB – ANGOLA COUNTRY STRATEGY PAPER 2011 - 2015

3. Working in
Bank’s official
languages

4.Procurement
of services,
goods and
works

2.7 shortage in
transfer of
counterpart
funding to
projects

Ensure the register of these
funds under the public
investment program.l

Government

Continuous

Difficulties in
communicating
in
French/English
increase delay
of processing
of dossiers

Recruitment of
French/English project staff

Government
/Bank

New projects

To provide project staff with
training courses to improve
language skills.

Bank

Continuous

Additional
costs due to
translation of
documents
submitted to
the Bank

Provide documents
translation funding to the
PIUs

Bank

New projects

Long delays
observed due
to lack of
knowledge of
Bank’s
procedures

Trainings in Bank’s
procedures for PIUs staff
and civil servants particularly
in the Directorates of
planning and studies of the
sector ministries

Bank

15

Improvements in
Education II
Project and
Artisanal
Fisheries have
been registered
The new
projects
(Environment)
envisages
recruitment of
staff fluent in
Bank’s
languages
outstanding

Ongoing. Has
been applied to
new projects eg.
Environment
Support Project
(signed beg
Feb.09)
ICBPR project
will provide
training and
support for PIU
and MDA’s staff

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