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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has provided US$248 million in loan support for three key government initiatives.<\/p>\n

A total of US$160 million has been earmarked for the Public Sector Transformation Project; US$68 million for the National Identification System (NIDS); and US$20 million to further boost national security technology inputs.<\/p>\n

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Hon. Audley Shaw, and IDB President, Luis Alberto Moreno, signed agreements formalising the provisions during a ceremony at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Monday (February 26).<\/p>\n

The signing coincided with the seventh annual IDB Caribbean Governors\u2019 Conference, which was held today (February 27), at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel.<\/p>\n

Mr, Shaw, who emphasised the importance of the public-sector transformation programme, reiterated that 84 State entities are being targeted for closure, divestment, merging or subsuming back into Central Government over the next three years.<\/p>\n

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Image:\u00a0\u00a0Ken Teegardin<\/a> (flickr)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has provided US$248 million in loan support for three key government initiatives. A total of US$160 million has been earmarked for the Public Sector Transformation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[183,151,180,124],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-funding","tag-idbiadb","tag-inter-american-development-bank-idb","tag-jamaica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Pink-Piggy-Bank-On-Top-Of-A-Pile-Of-One-Dollar-Bills-Ken-Teegardin-flickr-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C697&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1ej","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25272,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/cdb-idb-world-bank-endorse-jamaicas-procurement-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":4731,"position":0},"title":"CDB, IDB, World Bank Endorse Jamaica\u2019s Procurement System","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"November 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Jamaica Three International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have endorsed the Government of Jamaica\u2019s new electronic procurement system. 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