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Finance Innovation 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.

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Speakers

The speaker line-up for this stream is being finalised.

Speakers for the Finance Innovation Forum will be announced as APSCA 2026 approaches.

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