 The Home Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has requested $8.93 million from the World Bank to procure 21 items which include stationary office furniture, office supplies, office equipment. The requests were made under the State Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability Project which was initiated in 2018. The SFTAS project was designed to strengthen transparency and accountability at the sub-national and will end in 2022. A total of $1.5 billion was committed to the project in two batches of $750 million. December 2018 and December 2019 by the World Bank, although the money is to grant the government its loan also.