Day One - 18 May 2010

Session 1: Good Financial Governance

1. Good Financial Governance: A key CABRI concern
    Alta Fölscher, CABRI

2. Good Financial Governance study groups:

Session 2: Public Finance Management in Africa - Where are we, how did we get there, where should we go?

Managing money for (a) change. What PEFA tells us about the quality of Africa's PFM systems. And future reform challenges.
Matthew Andrews, Harvard School of Government, USA

Paper: How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa?
Matthew Andrews, Harvard School of Government, USA

Session 3: Programme based budgeting in Mauritius

Programme Budgeting in Mauritius. Joint Country Case Study.
Kay Brown, National Treasury, South Africa

Paper: The implementation of Programme Based Budgeting in Mauritius
CABRI 

Day Two - 19 May 2010

Session 4: Can the private sector add value to public sector infrastructure development?

1. The Role and Pitfalls of Private Sector Involvement
    Mandla Gantsho, Nova Capital Africa

Paper: Can the Private Sector add value to public sector infrastructure development?
The Role and Pitfalls of Private Sector Involvement in Infrastructure
Mandla Gantsho, Nova Capital Africa

 2. Managing Private Sector involvement
    Tumisang Moleke, National Treasury, South Africa

3. Infrastructure Brief
    CABRI

4. Group discussions on private sector involvement in infrastructure development:

Session 5: CABRI - OECD Using Country Systems Initiative

Global Partnership on using Coutry Systems
Sara Fyson, OECD-DAC

CABRI-OECD Using Country Systems Initiative
Eva Esselba Mends, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana

CABRI's approach to Country Support
Aarti Shah, CABRI

Session 6: Wrap-up

Seminar Wrap-up
Nana Boateng/Aarti Shah/Alta Fölscher, CABRI