The FMRP is designed to support improvement in GoB financial management for five years. FMRP is a five-year programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Royal Netherlands Embassy (RNE). The programme is intended to provide support to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG's), the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the Financial Management Academy (FIMA) and selected line ministries in financial management reform. The programme is likely to be implemented over a period of approximately five years with a budget of approximately £25 million.

The goal of FMRP is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the allocation of resources, and to achieve more equitable and improved public service delivery. The purpose of FMRP is to develop accountable and transparent institutional management and operational arrangements for aggregate fiscal discipline, strategic prioritisation of expenditure and improved performance during budget execution. FMRP comprises five interrelated components. The main objective of the Component 3 is to enhance resource allocation and utilisation and financial, resource and performance management capacity in line ministries.

• Enhance financial management/internal control processes in 12 line ministries. Re-establish basic FMU functions in Education, Agriculture, Women & Children's Affairs and Social Welfare. Initiate process to define PEM support requirements for Health, Primary Education, Agriculture and Education. Re-establish Budget & Monitoring Committees for 4 existing FMU ministries. Budget & Monitoring committees in 4 target ministries making informed decisions of expenditure management. Basic budget processes improved in 4-targeted ministries. Establish FMU functions, Budget and Monitoring Committees and improved budget processes in new 5 ministries.
• Strategic approaches to policy, planning & budgeting in 12 line ministries. Implement Pilot performance-based budget in 1 ministry. Increase senior management capacity & competence.
• Completion by FMUs of 3 poverty focussed expenditure tracking studies & service delivery client surveys; engage civil society. Poverty focused expenditure tracking & service delivery studies using suitably disaggregated information, produced for 2 / 3 ministries by 2004.
• Effectiveness of poverty reduction expenditures of GoB.
• Forward estimates/MTEF (Budgeting) for GoB and individual ministries.