United Nations Development Program India Coordination & Decision Support System (CDSS) on External Assistance Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of Finance Government of India In association with India Integrating CDSS with Government’s Finance Management System (AAAD) by C Sunil Kumar

Introduction  External assistance has a significant role in the development process in India with approximately 10% of the total investment in the public sector with projects in infrastructure, production and social sectors.  Each of the multilateral and bilateral programmes has its own set of processes for monitoring the physical and financial progress of projects.  The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) is the nodal agency of the Government of India (GoI) for coordinating different aspects of economic management in the country. The need: A uniform approach in external aided projects available to all stakeholders that can foresee problems in implementation

What is CDSS? CDSS (Coordination Decision Support System) is a web-based application to track the progress of individual external aided projects and programmes in Ministry of Finance (MoF), Government of India (GoI) CDSS is based on a customized version of the Development Assistance Database (DAD) DAD has been reengineered to meet the institutional needs in India after consultations with stakeholders, particularly with central ministries, state governments and donor agencies.

 Enables comprehensive, multi-dimensional analysis and measurement of the impact of aid assistance on economic and social development and identification of gaps and priority areas for future investments  Allows the user to view project data organized into lists, reports, charts, and maps. CDSS is composed of a variety of components, which combine to provide a comprehensive solution for project management functional requirements  Providing stakeholders with the capability to produce analytical reports, charts and GIS CDSS – Key capabilities

CDSS  CDSS database is centrally located in DEA, Ministry of Finace, Govt. of India  PIAs(Project Implementing Agency) across the country, donor agencies and credit divisions update data by accessing CDSS through internet  Public can access CDSS for viewing information  User support is to be provided along with technical support & maintenance CDSS - deployment

User 1 User 3 User 2 CDSS AAA D Exim  Users update the project data  Three categories of users – PIA, Credit division and Donor agency  CDSS is integrated with Government’s Financed management system for the updation of financial data (AAAD)  Financial data is updated by the automated process called Exim (Export-Import) from AAAD database CDSS Data updation

Integrating CDSS with AAAD database AAAD (Aid Accounts & Audit Department) is the agency managing the external assistance database of Indian public finance management system AAAD is a separate entity within MoF AAAD maintains and updates a separate database for all financial information All financial information is updated on real time basis  All the financial data in AAAD is authenticated  It is the only agency which provide updated financial data on daily basis  Official project financial data is provided by AAAD Why Exim ?

What is Exim ?  Exim is the most salient feature of CDSS  Exim is the Export-Import software application tool in CDSS  Exim exports the financial data from AAAD database and updates the data in CDSS database  It is a fully automated package which triggers on predefined schedule  The application runs on two different databases physically located in two places  The application works on internet technologies AAAD database CDSS database

Advantages of Exim  Financial data in CDSS is always in synchronization with AAAD data  No need of manual data updation of financial data  Data redundancy is avoided  New projects are automatically added to CDSS

How Exim works ?  There are two applications in Exim – one is Export application and other is Import application  The Export application is installed in AAAD server  This application works on scheduled time on daily basis  All financial data is received and store in AAAD server  The data is divided into packets and send to CDSS server through internet  The Import application receives this data and stores in CDSS server  This data is updated in CDSS database on scheduled time

 Exim is the most critical application running in the system and needs regular monitoring and maintanace  Exim is deployed in both AAAD serer and CDSS server  CDSS has no control over AAAD server  AAAD server is physically located in a different location  Any updation/modification in structure of AAAD database will affect the Exim  Any change in IP address of servers will affect the Exim CDSS – Exim Challenges

An user interface application will be developed in Exim The user interface application – to some extent – help in customization of data fields from AAAD without making changes in the code. Depending upon the changes/modifications in AAAD database, the fields can also be changed using this application More control check points will be added so that log files will be easier to debug. Exim - Looking to the Future

Thank You !! Coordination Decision Support System Room No: 276 G Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of Finance North Block New Delhi – India Tel: