This mission marked the first Word Bank-sponsored review of the central departments which have been largely neglected by the many MoF reform programs over the last fifteen years or so. It was conducted within a set of tight security protocols, which limited the time and frequency authors could spend in the ministry, and this impacted on our ability to consider fully the HR options which may be available to the ARD and ACD. Nevertheless, we captured enough data, information and views to develop several recommendations and an HR action plan for consideration by the DM and his senior leadership team. This report includes our main findings (section two), and in section three we summarize the results from our skills survey. Section four focuses on our assessment of the planned actions and strengths and weaknesses of each department, and section five outlines a two-year HR action plan which describes next steps and outlines in tabular format a timeline of key activities. The final section lists several activities authors believe could be included in the FSP and are submitted for the Head of HR’s consideration.