Aligning Public Financial Management with National Strategies
How public finance can support national strategy, accountability, and reform.
On this session.
What you'll take away.
Most governments still classify spending by ministry or economic input — line items that satisfy auditors but obscure whether the budget moved the dial on what citizens elected you to deliver. Manuel reframes the chart of accounts as a strategic instrument: a public ledger that maps every dollar to a national development outcome. Drawing on a decade of FreeBalance engagements across Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, the session walks through three production examples — Liberia, Mongolia, Honduras — of countries that rewired their COA around their National Development Plan, and the political, technical and capacity hurdles each cleared.
- Why the Chart of Goals matters as much as the Chart of Accounts
- Three real-world COA-to-NDP alignment patterns from FreeBalance deployments
- Practical sequencing — what to reform in year one, year three, year five
- How to instrument outcome KPIs without inflating the COA
Take this home with you.
Mapping a national development strategy onto a Chart of Goals integrated with the Chart of Accounts.
Building a performance culture inside the ministry of finance: cadence, dashboards, and accountability loops.
A taxonomy of public-finance KPIs with definitions, formulas and reporting frequencies.