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The FY19 Annual Report (AR) records progress in applying good and improved PFM practices developed, promoted, or shared through PEMPAL from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. Activities in FY19 were guided by the PEMPAL Strategy 2017-22, which aims to provide a well-functioning professional peer learning platform through which public finance practitioners from member countries are networked to strengthen their capacities and to enable them to create and share knowledge and benchmarking.  

Five hundred participants from 23 PEMPAL member countries attended events in FY19, including face-to-face meetings, network exchanges, videoconference meetings, and workshops. Strong member country commitment was evident from member countries’ willingness to host PEMPAL events and invest significant resources into their organization, as well as from member countries’ delegating their key staff to attend and contribute to PEMPAL events, develop PEMPAL knowledge products, and serve on the COP Executive Committees. Six of the nine face-to-face events in FY19 took place in PEMPAL member countries with some events arranged back-to-back to achieve cost efficiencies. There is also growing evidence of member country representatives actively engaging in developing and delivering event agendas and knowledge products, and leading the thematic groups, to advance reforms in their countries.