Public finance

Diagnostics, analysis and support for public financial management, from programme budgeting to the costing of policies.

Typical services

Programme budgeting
Public expenditure review (PER)
PEFA
Investment case
Budget analyses
Efficiency analysis
Tax potential analysis
Fiscal space analysis
Costing of policies and programmes

Approach

Our assignments draw on international diagnostic and reform frameworks (PEFA, programme budgeting, expenditure reviews) and on detailed analysis of efficiency, tax potential and fiscal space.

Typical deliverables

PEFA diagnostics and public expenditure reviews (PER)
Budget, efficiency and fiscal-space analyses
Investment cases and costing of policies and programmes
Support for programme-budget implementation

Sectors of intervention

For each area of expertise, including this one:

Gender unit
Social development unit (SP–ECE–cohesion, education–CPE–HR, health–nutrition, etc.)
Agriculture and climate change unit
Infrastructure unit (WASH, energy, mining, etc.)
Public finance, decentralisation and local development unit