DMFAS user institution(s): Ministry of Finance
DMFAS start date (country) : 1984 (Ministry of Finance)
Project status in 2008: Active
DMFAS current installation: 5.3 (May 2004)
Version language: French
System operational status:
Database regularly kept up to date;
System used for monitoring and internal reporting;
Link with other system:  No
Activities in 2008 (project and non-project):

• Participation in Pole-Dette / UNCTAD regional workshop on new reporting features of DMFAS 5.3 in Lome, Togo in May;

• New technical cooperation project signed in May 2008 and funding secured through an AfDB grant;

• First DMFAS training mission within new project fielded in September;

• DMFAS training on recording of debt reorganization operations in November;

• IT training mission to Geneva for local data base administrator in December;

• On-going DMFAS Programme support (including project management, administrative, documentation and IT) regarding implementation of the DMFAS system as well as on  current and future capacity-building activities was provided from Geneva during the year.  In addition to regular contact with the Government about capacity-building needs, DMFAS support in 2007 included, for example, three updates (patches 17, 18 and 19)  to the DMFAS system currently installed in the Ministry of Finance as well as user documentation updates.   It also included DMFAS Helpdesk user support.   The latter responded to two country-specific assistance requests during the year.

Planned activities:
Continued DMFAS support regarding implementation of the DMFAS system as well as other capacity-building activities in debt management.  Including:

• DMFAS Helpdesk user support;

• National debt statistics workshop planned for march 2009;

• DMFAS training on the production of debt statistics;

• DMFAS training on recording of domestic debt instruments.