The Urban Unit believes in incorporating a robust M&E plan into projects at an early stage so as to guide the projects in right direction from day one. We ensure M&E acts as a catalyst to leverage resources, improve project performance, reach the intended beneficiaries, provide accountability and transparency to the donors, stakeholders, beneficiaries and maximise project impact, often within the established quality standards, estimated time frame and allocated budget. Monitoring and Evaluation sector helps our clients improve the impact, efficiency and sustainability of their services while providing accountability and insight. The Urban Unit has developed innovative methods to gain unprecedented access in vulnerable and remote areas, gathering high quality data through latest, reliable and sensitive approaches. Our team assess the performance of projects set up by clients to improve current and future management of outputs, outcomes and impact.
The Urban Unit in collaboration with Excise, Taxation & Narcotics Control Department started GIS Integrated Computerization of Urban Immovable Property Tax (UIPT) in Sialkot District as pilot project in 2013. The primary objectives of the project were to develop a robust system which should not only meet the requirements of modern world, but also have the characteristics of plugging all the avenues of leakages of revenue resulting into increase in revenue, which apart from it should be transparent and user friendly.
It was envisaged that after successful completion of the pilot project in Sialkot, it could be extended to all the Districts of Punjab. However, after successful completion of the pilot project, the Government of the Punjab decided to extend it in Phase-I, to 5-Largest cities of Punjab including Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi, which generate almost 80% of the total revenue collection, which was supposed to be accomplished with 20% efforts.
These six districts, as a whole, have 2.2 million properties in which 1 million are taxable and remaining are non-taxable. The successful implementation of this system enhanced the speed of the work, quality, timely reporting, transparency, strong monitoring, reports generation, computerized PT-1, PT-10 Challan Forms, PT-13, PT-17 issuance. A complete database and system was provided to the department on 30th June, 2015.
As a result of GIS Integrated Computerization of UIPT in these six districts, identification of almost 5 lacs new/left over property units which were added in the database apart from an increase of PKR 1.5billion revenue with a recurring effect, has been made possible. As such the cost of the project was recovered within the first year of the implementation, setting an example of payback of the cost of a project within the shortest possible time-less than one year.
After smooth system running for the last 3 years, the department finally decided to extend the GIS Integrated system of Computerization of UIPT in the remaining Districts of the Punjab. From the 1st day of July, 2016, the Phase-II of the Project “the GIS Integrated Computerization of UIPT in remaining 30-Districts of the Province of Punjab has been started.
Client: Excise Taxation & Narcotics Department, GoP
The
Finance Department, Government of Sindh, in collaboration with the World Bank
has rolled out Sindh Public Sector Management Reform Project (SPSMRP) with the
aim to strengthen Public Sector Performance through improved revenue generation
and expenditure management. The Economic Reform Unit, Finance Department under
TA component of World Bank loan, has hired the services of The Urban Unit,
Punjab as consulting firm in Pakistan to support the Government in Sindh Tax Reform
Plan. Its support entails Android based GIS integrated survey of Property Tax
and Professional Tax in the city area of District Sukkur, Sindh, for eventual scale
up to the entire province.
Apart
from improving the existing system of assessment and collection of property tax
and professional tax, the project will also support ET&NC Department,
Government of Sindh in terms of capacity building of staff through extensive
trainings, hence resulting in better policies and service delivery through
objectives mentioned below.
The
establishing of an automated, transparent and robust Property Tax and
Professional Tax Assessment & Collection System in district Sukkur, Sindh
using alternate technologies through Android Based GIS integrated Survey and
Computerization of all Property Tax and Professional Tax records, with the
scope of replication in entire Sindh is the primary objective of the project.
Client: Finance Department, Sindh
