The Reform Project Steering Committee of the Information System of the Ministry of Finance and Budget met on Friday, 14 June 2019, in Brazzaville. Under the auspices of its president, Calixte Nganongo, head of the Ministry.
The five items on the agenda were discussed at the tenth meeting.
First, the presentation by Guy noël Londongo, director of the information system, of the computer master plan of the Ministry of Finance and Budget of the Republic of Congo. The document provides a summary of the various interim reports produced during the development phase of the ISD. It summarises the work carried out on all elaboration views of the information system of an enterprise architecture approach. Next, the presentation of the follow-up project of actions plan of SIGFIP launch, since March 25, 2019, in the four pilot Ministries (Ministry of Finance and Budget, Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics, Ministry of Interior and Decentralisation, and Ministry of Construction, Urbanism and Housing).
Copil noted the progress in the experimental launch of SIGFIP, among other things, the adjustment of the structure of the budget allocation according to the directives of CEMAC, updating the collection of special printouts relating to the expenditure chain; detecting and correcting discrepancies between SIGFIP and SIDERE, correcting problems relating to the recovery of data from SIDERE to SIGFIP.
Limitations were also observed by the technical team deployed in the pilot Ministries to assist users in using the application. These include the absence of tradesmen in the four Ministries; the reaction time of integrators, which sparked a debate among the participants.
With regard to the Evaluation Report of the action plan for the Reform of the State Budget and Accounting Management Information System, presented to Copil by Saturnin Ipodo-Nzingou, deputy head of the SIGFIP project, is structured along two lines: mastering the management of the launch of SIGFIP in degraded mode and the continuation of the prepartion of the switch to the Budgetting-programme and the accounting of rights recorded.
Addressing the information point on the other projects, namely, the modernisation and security of the Tax Card Issuance System with a Unique Identification Number (UIN), the implementation of a New Tax Management Application, replacing the current information system of the Directorate General of Tax and State Property (DGID), SYSTAF (E-TAX), and the modernisation of the Import-Export Control and Valuation System (E-CUSTOMS), satisfied all the COPIL participants. The fourth item focused on the other activities, specifically the launch of E-SCHORLASHIPS (GEB) and the Teleservice and EPAY presentation.
Ted Galouo Sou, Director of Natural Resources (DRN) and project head, made the assessment, the oil side of the platform of the System of Tracking the Payment of Debt of the State (SYSPACE).
“Oil companies have aligned themselves with the platform since it went into production in February 2019. This platform is a tool for controlling the production and marketing of natural resources, for making the calculation of rights resulting from the distribution provided for in agreements or contacts reliabe, real-time monitoring of rights payments, control of government revenues and claims vis-à-vis extractive companies, facilitation of reporting and automatic re-launching of companies” he said.
The SYSPACE project head made two recommendations to Copil, namely: to include in the 2020 Finance Law the obligation to declare in SYSPACE the taxation of natural resources and the involvement of the Directorate General of the Treasury in the validation of the payments.
