Conference Name: Devpolicy Seminars
Event Type: Devpolicy Seminars
Year:
2016
Strengthening public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries
Presentation/s:
Richard Bontjer, Lead Public Financial Management Specialist, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Professor Peter Annear, Head of the Health Systems Governance and Financing Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne; Susan Ivatts, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank; Tobias Haque, Economist, World Bank and Dr Julien Barbara, Fellow, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM), ANU.
The World Bank, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) have recently released a report that makes the case for adopting a problem-driven approach to public financial management reform in Pacific Island countries. The report, which includes the results of detailed case studies of reform experience in Kiribati and Tonga, examines how well reform programs have focused on the key challenges that Pacific Island countries face in managing fiscal policy and financing delivery of public services.
One of the authors of the report, Richard Bontjer from DFAT, presented its key findings, and a panel of experts from the World Bank, DFAT, and the Nossal Institute for Global Health discussed the implications of the report’s recommendations for delivery of health services in the Pacific.