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Public Finance Forum

Without sound public finance, there is no sustainable development. This stream convenes Finance Ministers, central bank governors, and revenue authority leaders to address Africa's most critical fiscal challenges — closing the domestic revenue gap, managing debt, and building budget systems that translate spending into outcomes.

About this stream

What this stream covers.

Without sound public finance, there is no sustainable development. This stream convenes Finance Ministers, central bank governors, and revenue authority leaders to address Africa's most critical fiscal challenges — closing the domestic revenue gap, managing debt, and building budget systems that translate spending into outcomes.

Discussions cover domestic resource mobilisation, sustainable debt management, and performance-based budgeting — the fiscal plumbing that determines whether policy ambitions actually get funded and delivered.

Focus areas
Domestic revenue mobilisation and tax administration
Sustainable public debt management
Performance and outcome-based budgeting
Pension, social security and treasury reform
What you’ll leave with
  • Comparative fiscal strategies from finance leaders across the region
  • Frameworks for outcome-linked budget reform
  • Direct engagement with revenue authority and treasury heads
Session format

Ministerial keynote, a fiscal policy panel, and a technical session on treasury and revenue-authority reform.

Who should attend

Finance ministers, central bank leaders, accountants-general, revenue authority and pension fund executives.

Join this stream

Register for APSCA 2026 and select Public Finance Forum as one of your areas of interest.

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Speakers

The confirmed leaders speaking on this stream.

Mr. Leonard Mkude (CPA)

Mr. Leonard Mkude (CPA)

Accountant General, United Republic of Tanzania

Omolola Oloworaran

Omolola Oloworaran

DG, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Nigeria

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