Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Wastes Project

Simplify grant disbursement arrangements. The flow of Global Environment Facility (GEF) funds was slow and tedious and delayed implementation. This was due partly to the lack of an imprest account in the provinces. These disbursements arrangements need to be simple. The government has drawn lessons from the project and has now agreed to the establishment of imprest accounts in provincial departments of finance to receive grant funds directly from ADB. Such an arrangement is expected to accelerate the disbursement of the GEF grants in future GEF- cofinanced projects and ensure the effectiveness of the fund uses.