The Road to the SDGs

X The EDP is an integral tool for authorised signatories to register official users who will submit disbursement withdrawal applications on their behalf as well as relevant finance and accounting staff from the Project Implementation Units who will respond to disbursement-related enquiries. X A plethora of training materials has been made available to support users: a user guide, on-screen help menus and recorded video demos. X The EDP is accessible in IsDB’s three languages: Arabic, English and French. X Continuous improvements are in progress and additional features for future releases are being designed. X The new e-Disbursement platform will be piloted in Indonesia and Senegal end of June 2021. An accelerated stabilisation period is planned for the rollout to the remaining MCs before the 46th Annual Meeting scheduled in September 2021. ACHIEVEMENTS X The EDP will achieve: – Greater control and governance, ensuring the tracking of every submission with the relevant audit trail of human and system processes from receipt to payment – Expedient collaboration with the instant messaging feature to accelerate resolving disbursement-related issues – Transparency, thanks to live status updates on withdrawal applications submitted by MCs. INVESTMENT X The EDP’s comprehensive focus on the end-to-end disbursement process will: – Reduce direct cost of courier service to the MC and the project – Minimise delays in receiving disbursement requests by up to 5–10 days, in some cases – Reduce the cost related to temporary storage and permanent archiving of physical documents – Reduce processing time and manual tasks to scan and upload physical documents into the ERP system. D I S B U R S E M E N T R E Q U E S T P R O C E S S I N G From an average of 19 days in 2017 to only 7 days in 2020 [ 193 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S