The four-day regional workshop, conducted within the framework of the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) Facility and the regional budget transparency initiative, will bring the African INFF community of practice together with other senior decision makers to share ongoing experiences in drafting Financing Strategies, setting up SDG Financing Dialogues and implementing open budget reforms. The event will also discuss emerging topics – disaster risk management and the green/climate agenda, fiscal decentralization, fostering a human-centred and green recovery amidst multiple shocks (the pandemic, climate events, conflict, macroeconomic volatility, fiscal austerity), etc.
Workshop goals
1. Strengthen the INFF capacities of government officials, UN staff and other stakeholders with special focus on setting up SDG Financing Dialogues, developing Financing Strategies and promoting budget openness.3
2. Promote knowledge-sharing among countries, including brainstorming around lessons learned and the dos and the don’ts.
3. Generate a regional dialogue around emerging trends and issues that affect the rollout of INFFs and open budget reforms.
Concept Note [ English ] [ Portugeese ]
Event resources
Day 1
Development Financing Stage
Financing Outlook in Africa Presented by Gamal Ibrahim
2022 State of INFFs - Sub-Saharan Africa
Inception Phase - Roadmaps
Presentation of the status of DFA/EFD implementation in Guinea
Financing Strategies
Development Financing Strategy of the Union of the Comoros
Malawi Experience in Drafting the INFF
Integrated National Financing Frameworks: The Nigeria Experience
Financing Strategies for the SDGs
Day 2
Climate and INFF
Unlocking climate finance to implement NDCs, Jean Paul Adam, ECA
Integrating Climate into the INFF Process, UNDESA
Unlocking Private Capital
SDGS Investment Fairs –Pipeline Building -Successful Case of Ghana
Rwanda Financing for Transformation
Accelerating SDG Investments Across AFRICA
Debt Management and Instruments
SDG Bond Issue and Restructuring of the Debt of Benin
Debt Management and Debt Instruments (Diaspora and Green Bonds)
Zambia’s Experience in Debt Restructuring
Tax Reforms
Evidence based DRM reforms building on qualitative and quantitative research, Farzana Sharmin
Tax equity and transparency can boost DRMs to finance SDGs
Financing Sustainable Development with a Focus on Domestic Resource Mobilization: Rwanda Case
Tax for SDGs The case of Tanzania
Local Finance
Subnational Financing & Localizing INFF
The Devolution Project in Kenya
Building the SDG Ambassadors at district level in Sierra Leone
Day 3
Building the SDG Ambassadors at district level in Sierra Leone
The Open Budget Survey (OBS) Methodology
Reforms and Innovations to Improve Budget Openness for Sustainable Development
BudgIT’s Contribution to Open Budget Reforms
Day 4
Action Planning to Enhance Budget Openness and Investment in Human Capital and a Green Recovery