From January 21–22, 2025, Kigali hosted the Green Public Financial Management (PFM) Seminar, uniting practitioners—specifically Ministry of Finance officials, experts, and civil servants working in climate public finance policy or tax administrations from partner countries—to tackle one of the most pressing challenges of our time: integrating climate and environmental priorities into public finance.
This groundbreaking event equipped participants with innovative tools and strategies to design and implement impactful green PFM reforms, ensuring that public resources are mobilized, allocated, and managed in ways that support sustainable development.
With ICON’s support, the facilitation of the two-day seminar and the design and delivery of a presential workshop were carried out. The workshop aimed to understand, map, and systematize priorities and actions from partner countries, focusing on topics such as:
- Environmental taxation,
- Green budgeting,
- Green public procurement,
- Fiscal risks aligned with climate risks.
ICON supports includes the development and implementation of a practical instrument/tool to enhance capacities and actions toward Green Public Financial Management in partner countries. This instrument/tool will help Ministries of Finance advance their policy implementation in line with existing international frameworks or commitments. The developed tool will be rolled out in an interested partner country.
The seminar is a key component of the Multi-Donor Action “Collect More – Spend Better: Green Public Financial Management,” a collaborative effort co-financed by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Implemented by GIZ under the BMZ’s “Sector Programme Good Financial Governance” (SP GFG), this initiative is strengthening policy frameworks and fiscal governance to create an enabling environment for green investments worldwide.