Macro Economy, Statistics & Public Finance Management

Our field experts conduct economic forecasting and planning and provide support for public investment, national statistical systems and PEFA assessment.

Projects

Technical Assistance to Support the Transition to the Informal Economy Reconversion Programme 2.0

In order to improve the monitoring and evaluation system of the Informal Economy Reconversion Progr...

Apr 2023 - Sep 2023

FWC SIEA 2018-2022

Since 2000, CESO has participated in the framework contracts of the European Commission, providing c...

Jan 2018 - Dec 2022

Support for the Elaboration of the National Development Plan 2018-2022

The technical assistance aims to contribute to Angola´s proceed of economic and social development ...

Dec 2017 - May 2018

Support Program for Strengthening National Statistical Capacities

The program will contribute to strengthening the national statistical system and macroeconomic forec...

Dec 2017 - Mar 2021

Development of Multi-Factor Productivity Indicators for Barbados

The overall objective of this assignment was to increase Barbados' competitiveness by stimulating it...

Jul 2017 - Feb 2018

Technical assistance to the Court of Audits and to the Finance Inspectorate in control audits and public finances

The Technical Assistance (TA) aims to improve public accountability framework and the performance de...

Sao Tome and Principe

May 2016 - Jun 2017

Assistance for the control of the Financial Function

The objective is to allow the department council to meet the challenges that are required in public ...

Mauritius, Mayotte

Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

Evaluation of SOFID's (Portuguese Development Financing Institution) contribute for development in the 2007-2014 period

The evaluation of the operation of SOFID in promoting development in the period 2007-2014, focused o...

Mozambique, Portugal, South Africa

Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

Identification of a Monitoring, Follow-up and Evaluation System of the Public Finances Reform Programme

Drawing from this diagnosis, the Public Finance Management System (PFMS) Reform Programme itself and...

Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

Evaluation of Public Finances according to PEFA - Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability - methodology

The PEFA 2016 - Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability - exercise will provide to the Cape ...

Nov 2015 - Jul 2016

Elaboration of a Public Finance Reform Programme

The project contributed to the larger objective of supporting the Government of Guinea-Bissau, in pa...

Aug 2015 - Aug 2015

Evaluation of the Public Finance Management in the Mozambique System, according the PEFA Methodology (2015)

The PEFA 2016 (Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability) exercise will equip the Government o...

May 2015 - Feb 2016

Technical Assistance to the Elaboration of the Private Sector Development Strategy

The project's main objective was to equip the government of Sao Tome and Principe with a strategic g...

Sao Tome and Principe

Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

Interim Evaluation of the Status of Public Finance Management in the Mozambican Ministry of Health

The general objective of this assignment was the independent evaluation of the state of Public Finan...

Apr 2014 - Jun 2014

Technical Assistance to the Elaboration of the Industrialization Programme of Angola 2013-2017

The project aimed at developing an intervention logic for the industrialization programme, which is ...

Oct 2013 - Nov 2013

Formulation and Update Study of the Training Institute for Economic and Financial Management (IGEF) of Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) and East Timor

The project envisaged to contribute to the improvement of economic governance and, consequently, to ...

Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

Technical Assistance to the Accounting Directorate

The overall objective of the programme in which this project is inserted is to contribute to the pro...

Sao Tome and Principe

Aug 2011 - Jun 2012

Technical Assistance to the Implementation of the Presidential Decree on Public Investment (Decree 31/10, of 12 April)

The project contributed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the procedural framework for...

Oct 2010 - Nov 2011

Technical Assistance to the National Statistics Directorate

The overall objective of the project was to assist the DNE (National Statistics Directorate) to prep...

Jan 2010 - Nov 2011

Economic Studies and Statistical Surveys for the Plan and Prospective General Commissioner of the National Statistics Office

The project contributed to improve the quality of medium-term economic information and the implement...

Jun 2009 - Sep 2011

Technical Assistance to Manage and Implement the Financial Management Improvement Programme II

The project contributed to strengthen the public finance management capacities at national, provinci...

Dec 2008 - Jul 2010

Assessment of Public Finance Management using the PEFA methodology

The present project aims to support the sustained reform Public Finance Management (PFM) in Cape Ver...

Sep 2008 - Dec 2008

Technical Assistance to the Reinforcement of the National Tax Directorate (DNI)

Within the Technical Assistance Project for Economic Management, this intervention contributed to in...

Sep 2008 - Sep 2009

Audit of Internal Debt of Guinea-Bissau 2000/2007

The project aimed to strengthen the public finance system and improve its effective use. To this...

May 2008 - Jan 2009

Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Plan and Finance

The project contributed to the implementation of the economic and financial programme supported by t...

Sao Tome and Principe

Apr 2008 - Jun 2009

Training Needs Analysis of the Botswana Unified Revenue Service

The project aimed to improve further effectiveness by enhancing the capabilities of its workforce in...

Mar 2008 - Jun 2008

Technical Assistance to the Elaboration of the Medium-Term Development Plan (PDMP)

The goal of the project is to harmonize various development plans in Angola, in particular the "Medi...

Nov 2007 - May 2008

Technical Assistance to the Court of Auditors: Budget Execution Monitoring System

The project aimed to support the Court of Auditors in the development of an information system, whic...

Oct 2007 - Jan 2008

Support development of curricula and monitor pre-service and in-service training programs in Health Management Information Systems

The project's objective is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery throu...

May 2007 - Jun 2008

Poverty Monitoring in Swaziland

The specific objective of the consultancy is to improve the analysis of the impact of ongoing progra...

Jan 2007 - Feb 2007

Technical Assistance for Macroeconomic Modelling to the National Planning Commission

The global objective of this assignment is to contribute towards the establishment of an effective a...

Sep 2006 - Dec 2006

Training Needs Assessment for Sector Planning and Budgeting in Government of Lesotho

The overall objective of the project is to build the capacity of the "Ministry of Finance and Develo...

Sep 2006 - Feb 2007

Design of the Information and Technology Systems Development Plan of the National Statistical Institute (INE)

The major objective of the project is to ensure that the Information and Technology Systems are alig...

Sep 2006 - Dec 2007

Technical Assistance to the Development of Methodologies for the Preparation of Sectoral and Provincial Programs

The global objective of the project is the reinforcement of the technical capacity of the planning u...

May 2006 - Apr 2007

Technical Assistance to the Creation of a Professional Body of Accountancy and Auditors in Mozambique

The Technical Assistance aimed to create a professional body of accountants and auditors, with the f...

Jan 2006 - Mar 2007

Training in Investigation of Value-Added Tax Fraud

The wider objective of the assignment is to enable Bulgaria and Romania to meet the obligations of t...

Bulgaria, Romania

Dec 2005 - Jun 2006

Institutional Support Activities for the Implementation of the Strategic Framework for the Fight Against Poverty

The project aimed to identify and prepare the support institutional activities of the multiannual pr...

Sep 2005 - Dec 2005

Facilitation for the Preparation of the 2005 Millennium Development Goals Progress Report

This project supported the elaboration of the 2005 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Repor...

May 2005 - Sep 2005

Support to the Development of the PALOP Statistic Systems - Training in SPSS and Calculation Methods (Sampling)

The objective of the Project is to improve the technical knowledge of National Statistics Institutes...

Dec 2004 - May 2005

Identification Study of a Support Programme to the Regional Integration in Central Africa

The aim of the project is to establish the framework for the intervention of the community support t...

Central African Republic

Apr 2004 - Jul 2004

Financing Plan for the Education Strategic Plan 2004-2008

The project contributed to the rationalisation of public expenditure in the sector, defining the fin...

Dec 2003 - Dec 2004

Technical Assistance to the Consolidation of the “Public Investment Programming and Management System” - SIGIP

This project contributed to the improvement of capacities of the Ministry of Planning staff, through...

Apr 2003 - Jan 2005

Advice in four selected areas to the Turkish Statistics Institute

The project considers the production of comparable data compliant with EU regulations, in four diffe...

Mar 2003 - Apr 2003

Training on Modern Desk and Field Audit Practices

The global objective of this contract aimed to set-up within the Valuation Department and Fraud Cont...

Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

Restructuring of Autonomous Services and Funds

The project consisted in the survey of the existing situation in most public institutes, funds and a...

Jun 2002 - Jun 2003

Technical Assistance to the Elaboration of the Long-Term Strategy Angola 2025

This project was the major prospective exercise carried out in Angola, containing an overall vision ...

Jun 2002 - Aug 2008

Support to the Administrative Reform

The project aims to evaluate relevant materials on government policies and measures in relation to t...

Feb 2002 - Jun 2002

Technical Assistance to the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Education and Health - “Economic Reforms Support Programme”

The Technical Assistance (TA) intervened in the wider context of the strategy to combat poverty and ...

Feb 2002 - Dec 2003

Terms of Reference elaboration for the Strengthening and Consolidation of the Russian European Centre for Economic Policy

The objective of the technical assistance was to write the Terms of Reference for the for the streng...

Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

Final evaluation of the Structural Adjustment Facility II (FAS II)

Study of the effectiveness and impact of the reform programme foreseen in the scope of the FAS II, n...

Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

Institutional Support to the National Authorising Officer

The purpose of the project is to aid the National Authorizing Officer's (NAO) Support Cell in the fi...

Jan 2002 - Dec 2002

Rationalisation and Modernisation of the Bank of Cape Verde Information System

The project carried out: - a diagnosis of the existing systems in the Department of Statistics a...

Mar 2001 - Oct 2002

Training in National Accounts, Macroeconomic and Scenario, Statistical Analysis and Modelling

The project aimed to promote a culture of economic research in the country, as well as a national ex...

Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

Programming Guidelines for the Economic Development of Angola

This project supported the EDF National Authorising Officer in the collection and treatment of the e...

Jan 2001 - Jun 2001

Consultancy Services for the Strengthening of Planning and Budgeting in the context of Sector Wide Approaches and the Medium Term Expenditure Framework

The Technical Assistance aimed to: - Strengthen the institutional and procedural links between pl...

Sep 2000 - Apr 2005

Design, Organisation and Implementation of a “Public Investment Programming and Management System (PROGIP)”

This project was part of the broader objective of restructuring the management system of public acco...

Oct 1999 - Mar 2001

Assistance to the Central Technical Unit of Projects

The project was responsible for the design and implementation of a new Public Investment Management ...

Aug 1999 - Dec 2000

Technical Assistance to the National Treasury Directorate

The technical assistance supported the DNT’s restructuring process within the reform of public fin...

Aug 1999 - Dec 2002

Technical Assistance to the Office of the National Authorisation Officer

The project aims the optimisation of the organisation, systems and operations of the National Author...

Mar 1999 - Jul 2002

Organisation of Four Courses in Macroeconomic Analysis

Each course consisted of a Training Course in Macroeconomic Analysis involving 120 senior officials ...

Mar 1994 - Dec 1996

Intensive Training in Accounting and Implementation of an Accountants Association

The intervention included the promotion and development of a Training Institute for Accountants and ...

Jan 1994 - Jan 1997