The EU funded PFM Pro PALOP-TL SAI programmes (2013-2017 and 2018-2022) successfully fostered and consolidated for the past 8 years innovative tools and a solid Community of Practices (CoP) of more than 20 core economic governance state institutions and a similar number of CSO platforms in the 6 PALOP-TLcountries (Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, and Timor-Leste) to promote transparent and efficient Public Finance Management (PFM), budget oversight and economic governance. These programmes brokered CoPs that used south-south/triangular cooperation and peer-to-peer association between similar country institutions that have spurred a degree of coordinated policymaking on PFM transparency and accountability matters unmatched in most countries in the region.
They have increased the quality and efficiency of EU policy dialogue, notably in countries with Budget Support operations (as well in countries with support programs to budget oversight), by providing critical, timely inside information, networks, and connection to oversight institutions.