BACKGROUND
As North Macedonia pursues necessary reforms and strengthens its Euro-Atlantic partnership, it is focused on creating efficient and effective government institutions at the local and national levels. This includes the appropriate administrative capacity to adequately coordinate and ensure the correct calculation, collection, payment, and control of its own resources to be able to provide efficient service delivery for its citizens. USAID contributes to this country’s efforts to reduce corruption and increase government effectiveness and transparency.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
The aim of this program is to increase municipalities’ own-source revenues and external funding and increase their budget execution rate in compliance with the central government’s budgeting and reporting requirements. Through this program, we will work with local and central governments to 1) enhance the quality of municipal tax and fee collection systems; 2) increase municipal capacity to access external resources from the national government, international organizations, capital markets, and banks; and 3) improve the ability of municipalities to plan, manage, and implement public sector revenues in compliance with national regulations.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- Improved management of local budgeting processes and own-source revenues.
- Increased ability of local government access to external funding.
- Improved public reporting and use of transparent accounting tools.
