Five-year programme to train and coach the staff at the Netherlands Embassies in the developing countries and at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Afffairs in the Hague to enhance their capacity with respect to Public Finance Management (PFM) and the budget process. This includes issues like Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF), Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSP’s) and their costing, budget support modalities (general and sectoral), Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps), donor co-ordination, accountability, etc.

The project provides:

• Modular training in PFM complementary and supportive to the training-on-the-job;
• Awareness training to officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who will take up a new posting;
• Internal dissemination of PFM lessons derived from the PFM Support Programme in the form of yearly thematic workshops for participating experts and officials at the client’s headquarters to exchange views and experiences.