„Increase of integrity in the National Agency for Fiscal Administration through institutional cooperation and capacity building”
Consultancy services for the design of an evaluation study within the project „Increase of integrity in the National Agency for Fiscal Administration through institutional cooperation and capacity building” – financed through the Norwegian Financial Mechanismt
Period of implementation:
Country – Romania
Beneficiary – ANAF
CA: The General Secretariat of the Government
Objective:
The purpose of the project is to elaborate a study at an evaluation level within the project „Increase of integrity in the National Agency for Fiscal Administration through institutional cooperation and capacity building” – financed through the Norwegian Mechanism.
The study will target:
- Identification of risks and vulnerabilities to corruption in tax and customs
- Proposal of specific measures to diminish them
- Analysis of the institutional framework of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, to evaluate if it can provide appropriate support to apply the anticorruption policy and to elaborate improvement options for it.
Activities:
Component 1 – Mapping risks and vulnerabilities to corruption in tax and customs, by means of questionnaires, inteviews, focus groups
Component 2 – Comparative analysis with Norway and 2 other countries.
Component 3 – Institutional framework analysis
The tools used included interviews, focus-groups, case studies, SWOT, PEST, Experts panel, Benckmarking, Multi-criteria analysis, Competency tree analysis.
Component 4 – Conclusions and recommendations
This section of the evaluation study will include:
- Measures to decrease risks and vulnerability to corruption in tax and customs
- Recommendations to improve/extend the institutional framework relevant to the application of prevention and control measures in NAFA
The best practices that can be realistically “transplanted” in the Romanian context.
