Technical Assistance for Revenue Administration and Revenue Policy - Guyana

Recipient
In 2017, during the first year of the project with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), advisors provided guidance in building robust anti-corruption measures, implementing HR reforms, organizational restructuring, and developing capacity for basic and specialized industry audits, in preparation for significant offshore petroleum reserves coming online. The GRA has established a Special Investigations Unit (SIU), hired new investigative staff, and agreed to implement a related action plan, organizational structure, and draft background investigations procedures manual. The GRA is implementing a new organizational structure that includes functional descriptions and position descriptions. The GRA agreed to establish a new petroleum revenue audit unit and approved OTAs proposal outlining the mission statement, organizational structure, staffing and action plan. Work in helped the GRA further solidify reforms in progress. A draft petroleum revenue audit manual and related implementation procedures is helping to prepare the staff at the new petroleum audit unit to begin more sophisticated audit work.
Commitment
USD 422892.00
Disbursement
USD 305998.00
Year
2019
Project Region
Project Number
75_949
Project crsid
2019008480