| Overview : UNDP through its project supports the State Audit Bureau (SAB) in the design and implementation of a National Performance Management Framework with the purpose of enhancing governance, accountability and the performance of governmental organizations within Kuwait and increasing the effectiveness of the SAB in exercising its monitoring and control activities of the performance of the different governmental entities. The SAB effectively practices its role as an oversight body of governmental entities, providing independent financial audit and recently expanding towards performance management audit as well. It is envisioned that the performance audit function will be significantly increased and strengthened with the establishment of a solid Performance Management Framework based on international best practices and an increased emphasis on capturing key performance indicators (KPIs) that allow for the monitoring of different aspects such as governance, transparency and quality of the services provided by those entities to the wider community. This includes governmental entities compliance with internal anti-corruption regulations promulgated by various transparency-promoting and regulatory bodies and ensures more alignment to the recently signed international treaties and the Kuwait national reform agenda. However, currently no clear KPIs have been developed and reported on in a consistent and automated manner by the entities. The current process of capturing, aggregating, reviewing and reporting on KPIs is largely manual and thus time-consuming process and without standards of data governance and accuracy for reporting. Areas of improvements lie in the comprehensiveness and value of reporting, ensuring data quality, improve process efficiency, transparency, governance, reliability and the mechanisms to sustain those improvements. The SAB project seeks to engage a consultancy firm to establish and deploy a National Performance Management Framework with the purpose of increasing the effectiveness in the monitoring and control of the performance of the different governmental entities. The results will be used to improve the efficiency and quality of the services provided by those entities and promote transparency and anti-corruption. To ensure the implementation and sustainability of the Performance Management Framework, the contracted services will provide capacity development of the different governmental entities within Kuwait in alignment with Kuwait’s national development priorities within the Kuwait Vision 2035, and develop the skills, capabilities and competencies of the SAB’s employees. | 
