PFPR focuses on the social sectors where public financial management failures are most visible at the point of delivery. The four sectors below are where the initiative concentrates its diagnostics, technical assistance and reform accompaniment. Each has a dedicated page that sets out the PFM-specific bottlenecks and the work PFPR does to address them.
The PFM bottlenecks that decide whether budgeted health funds reach primary care, essential commodities and the workforce. Strengthening budget execution, emergency preparedness and country systems.
Read more ↗Multi-sectoral nutrition budgets that can actually be tracked, executed and audited. Financing of high-impact interventions, school feeding, supplementation and treatment of acute malnutrition.
Read more ↗From teacher payroll to classroom infrastructure. The PFM tools that move education money from the central budget to the school gate, with equity, accountability and maintenance built in.
Read more ↗Predictable payment delivery, robust targeting and shock-responsive social protection. The PFM machinery that turns a programme design into cash that reaches the household on the day it is needed.
Read more ↗The sector cuts share a common diagnostic logic. PFPR maps the flow of funds from appropriation to point of service, identifies where money, decision rights or information stall, and works with finance and sector ministries to redesign the system rather than the line item.
PFPR was conceived, designed and launched by Vanguard Economics in 2024–2025, and is delivered in partnership with the Africa School of Governance. Together they provide the institutional foundation for PFPR's first phase.
