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  • Conduct consultations with development partners and funding agencies to identify development assistance strategies and priorities.
  • Co-ordinate Annual Country Partnership Programming activities of the development partners in consultation with the line Ministries/Agencies.
  • Prepare project pipelines for foreign financing in consultation with the line Ministries/Agencies, and National Planning Department.
  • Co-ordinate activities of donor missions from the fact finding stage to the appraisal stage.
  • Negotiate financing assistance and make arrangements for signing of loan/grant agreements and make them effective. Activities involved;
    • conduct loan negotiations with the development partners & lending agencies;
    • obtain Government approval and authority for signing of agreements;
    • sign subsidiary loan agreements with the implementing agencies; and
    • fulfil conditions prior to effectiveness of the loan agreements.
  • Oversee implementation of projects funded by development partners by;
    • coordinating activities connected with the review missions fielded by the development partners and follow-up on actions recommended;
    • participating in Steering Committees set-up by the line Ministries to monitor implementation of foreign funded projects and reviewing implementation of projects jointly with the development partners;
  • Manage foreign training opportunities provided by donors under Technical Cooperation Programmes
  • Manage Government external debt by
    • Maintaining Government debt portfolio via debt management system (CS-DRMS)
      • Record relevant information of loan payment conditions and covenants
      • Record Loan/Grant commitments, Disbursements and interest/principal payments, Exchange rates, interest rates and relevant macroeconomic data
    • Authorizing debt service payments to CBSL to settle payment on time
    • Forecasting debt service for fiscal management and other decision making
    • Disseminating debt data to relevant institutions for accounting and for publications
    • Report relevant debt data to World Bank on quarterly basis and annual basis
    • Publish debt data in ERDs website for public use and for other stakeholders
    • Reconciling debt data with development partners to improve the data quality
    • Compile and analyse debt data as and when required
  • Arranging domestic currency financing for working capital and development requirement on request
  • Facilitate annual budget preparation process of the Government in respect of each foreign funded development projects
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