CGA’s Giulio de Tommaso, as World Bank Task Team leader of the Administrative Capacity Building Project, assisted the Government of Burkina Faso improve its administrative and financial structures and processes in light of the ongoing decentralization process. This entailed (i) strengthening the capacity of the ministries guiding the decentralization process, (ii) implementing Human Resource Management (HRM) decentralization; (iii) strengthening of public expenditures management, accountability mechanisms and revenue collection and (iv) strengthening the capacity of newly formed local governments.