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 * List of Forums, Guides and Publications on Finance & Credit **

This list provides websites to many of the organisations and institutions providing guidance for accessing sources for finance and credit as well as instruction in financial management and accountability. It was prepared by Andrew McDevitt and was last updated in September 2011.

**//__World Bank: Financial Management__//** The Financial Management section of the World Bank website offers a wide range of __useful resources__, including experiences and lessons learned, case studies, reports, Country Financial Accountability Assessments (CFAAs), international technical newsletters, professional journals, and materials from the biennial Fiduciary Forum. The website also includes a link to the __PFM Reform Database__, which contains reference material on public financial management reforms, drawn from a wide variety of sources within and outside the World Bank.

**//__World Bank: Public Finance__//** This World Bank site focuses on economic management and the technical aspects of public financial management. It contains mostly World Bank material, including data sets, toolkits, handbooks, guidelines and seminar material.

**//__Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Public Governance & Management__//** This website hosts two sections with OECD material on Public Financial Management: __Budgeting and Public Expenditures__, and __Public Finance__. The OECD also hosts the __Task Force on PFM__, which aims to foster good practices in implementing PFM reforms, harmonise the measurement of PFM performance, and share PFM knowledge and experiences among donors and partners.

**//__Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA)__//** PEFA is a partnership between the World Bank, the European Commission, the IMF and various donors. It aims to support integrated and harmonised approaches to assessment of public financial management (PFM). It showcases the PEFA __PFM Performance Measurement Framework__ and contains country assessment reports as well as training resources.

**//__Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (SIGMA)__//** Sigma is a joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) which supports public management reform in central and eastern Europe. The site includes papers, assessment reports and country profiles as well as conference material.

**//__Asian Development Bank (ADB): Financial Management__//** The ADB’s section on financial management includes financial management guidelines, country diagnostic studies, financial management initiatives as well as information on the harmonisation of multilateral development banks' financial management and analysis practices.

**//__Inter-American Development Bank (IADB): Public Finances__//** The IADB’s section on public finances includes news, publications and information on public financial management projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.


 * // Academic Resources //**

**//__ODI: Centre for Aid & Public Expenditure (CAPE)__//** This ODI research centre contains a range of ODI’s own publications on public financial management. Much of the research is framed in the context of aid and donor relations and takes a political-economy perspective.

**//__The Centre for the Future State (CFS): Tax, Revenue and Public Finance__//** The CFS’s research programme, ‘Financing the State’, explores the connection between political development and public finances. Theme 6: Tax, Revenue and Public Finance includes research papers from a variety of northern and southern sources.

**//__Oxford Policy Management (OPM): Public Financial Management__//** OPM conducts research and evaluation work on PFM in developing countries. The website includes overviews of OPM's portfolio of projects and a substantial collection of __reports and working papers__ on PFM from the past ten years.


 * // Thematic Resources //**

**//__International Budget Partnership (IBP)__//** The IBP aims to assist civil society organisations around the world to improve budget policies and decision-making processes in their countries. This site includes a large database of guides, country reports, model reports and lessons learned aimed at an NGO audience.

**//__Gender Responsive Budgets__//** This website is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). It aims to ensure that planning and budgeting effectively respond to gender equality goals and contains a variety of resources, assessments and training materials on gender responsive budgeting.

**//__Center on International Cooperation (CIC): Public finance and economic recovery__//** This website contains publications from CIC’s post-conflict public finance and economic recovery project, which explores how the economic agenda of public finance interacts with the political agendas of peacebuilding and statebuilding.

**//__The International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM)__//** The ICGFM is an international consortium of government entities, organisations and individuals which aims to improve public financial management. The site hosts the International Journal on Governmental Financial Management, and includes a newsletter and conference material.

**//__Eldis: Domestic Finance Resource Guide__//** This thematic sub-section of the Eldis Finance Policy resource guide includes a regularly updated selection of research on budgets, education financing and taxation from a wide range of sources.

**//__International Tax Dialogue (ITD)__//** ITD is a mutli-donor collaboration to encourage and facilitate discussion of tax matters among national tax officials, international organisations, and a range of other key stakeholders. The website hosts a collection of over 3000 documents on a range of issues including tax policy, domestic tax avoidance and evasion, treaties, organisation and management of tax administration, tax procedure, and service delivery and community relationships.


 * // Regional Resources //**

**//__Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI)__//** CABRI is a new pan-African network of senior budget officials which aims to contribute towards the efficacy of public finance management in Africa. The site contains documentation on seminars as well as country studies.

**//__Institute for Democracy in Africa (IDASA): Economic Governance__//** The Economic Governance section of the IDASA website includes articles, briefs, papers and reports on government budget processes in various African countries.

**//__The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), India__//** This site contains a substantial collection of Indian research on tax policy and administration, public expenditure and fiscal federalism/decentralisation.

**//__Local Government and Public Sector Reform Initiative (LGI), Hungary__//** The Fiscal Transparency, Management and Accountability section of the LGI website includes an overview of key issues, project information and a large collection of publications relating to fiscal transparency and decentralisation in eastern Europe and central Asia.


 * // Blogs //**

**//__Intenational Monetary Fund (IMF): PFM Blog__//** This regularly updated IMF Blog aims to assist IMF member countries in enhancing performance of their public financial management systems. The site includes a large selection of country specific information as well as links to other PFM resources.

**//__The Kaufmann Governance Post: Public Financial Management__//** This blog from Daniel Kaufmann, director of the World Bank Institute, discusses issues relating to governance and transparency, including a section on public financial management.

**//__Open Budgets Blog__//** This blog from the International Budget Project (IBP) aims to stimulate discussion on issues relating to government budgets and citizen participation.

**//__MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy__//** This blog discusses the latest research on public expenditure management and multi-year budgeting practices and includes a rich list of PFM relevant links in the right column.

**//__ICGFM Blog__//** This blog from the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) aims to promote knowledge transfer among public financial management experts.

**//__Sustainable PFM Blog__//** This blog from FreeBalance explores sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Public Financial Management (PFM), with a special focus on government in emerging economies.


 * // Journals //**

//__Accounting, Auditing and Accountability__// //__Financial Accountability and Management__// //__International Journal of Public Administration__// //__Public Administration and Development__// //__Public Administration Review__// //__Public Budgeting and Finance__// //__Public Money and Management__// //__OECD Journal on Budgeting__//