PFPR focuses on the social sectors where public financial management failures show up most clearly, at the point where services reach people. The four sectors below are where the work is concentrated. Each has its own page setting out the PFM bottlenecks that matter and what PFPR does about them.
The PFM bottlenecks that decide whether health funds reach primary care, medicines and the workforce. Work on budget execution, emergency readiness and the use of 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 ↗Payments that arrive on time, targeting that reaches the right people, and protection that can scale up in a crisis. The PFM machinery that turns a programme design into cash reaching the household on the day it is needed.
Read more ↗The sectors are different, but the method is the same. PFPR maps how funds flow from the budget to the point of service, finds where money, decisions or information get stuck, and works with finance and sector ministries to fix the system rather than the line item.
Vanguard Economics created and launched PFPR in 2024–2025, and delivers it in partnership with the Africa School of Governance. The two provide the institutional base for PFPR's first phase.
