PAFDI supports governments, regional and international organisation with financial re-engineering and financial governance, in alignment with their development planning and implementation processes. These include projects in the area of:

• Public financial management
• Aid coordination, debt management and financing strategies
• Domestic resource mobilisation, taxation and customs
• Public-private partnerships and mobilising private investment
• Financial integrity, transparency, accountability systems

The projects on Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) and Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) are part of this work stream.

In order to address Africa’s development challenges financial and non-monetary (technical and knowledge) resources need to be mobilized not only from within the continent but also from external sources, including North and South development partners. PAFDI supports policy research around:

• Aid effectiveness and aid coordination
• South-South and Triangular cooperation
• Regional cooperation and integration

PAFDI is currently supporting UNAIDS to conduct a study on the contribution of emerging economies to the global health response through South-South cooperation.

The Sustainable Development Goals and the development aspirations of Africa’s Agenda 2063 cannot be achieved without mobilizing substantial resources from the private sector. PAFDI unpacks the role of business in stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship, opening markets for trade and investment, generating employment, and bringing more technical and financial resources to Africa’s socio-economic development. Some of the areas of focus of PAFDI include:

• Impact investing
• Venture capital & SME development
• Public-Private Partnerships & Blended Finance
• Climate Finance & Green Bonds
• Philanthropy
• CSR, ESG & Sustainable Business

Cross-cutting to all the work of PAFDI is the pivotal role that data and evidence play in driving policies and programmes of institutions and countries to achieve sustainable development objectives. PAFDI works with seasoned data analysts, monitoring and evaluation experts, economists, statisticians, environmental specialist, social and political scientists in providing reliable evidence to inform financing strategies for sustainable development. Among the services PAFDI provides are:

• Baseline & situational analysis
• Independent audits
• Economic & policy research
• Monitoring & evaluation
• Social Returns on Investments
• Data & Information Management Systems
• Impact assessments and evaluations
• Environmental and carbon footprints
• Innovation, AI and digital technologies