Public Financial Management Reform in Kosovo

Doug Hadden provides a case study of public financial management reforms in Kosovo. This post-conflict country has sequenced legal reform, improved governance, and achieved international public financial management standards under difficult conditions. Hadden points out that there are numerous lessons in the Kosovo experience linking reform to context that can be leveraged by governments around the world.

Abstract

The Government of Kosovo has achieved remarkable results in Public Financial Management (PFM) reform. This post-conflict country once managed through a United Nations mandate has sequenced legal reform, improved governance, and achieved international PFM standards under difficult conditions. Sequencing PFM reform is considered a good government practice, although “it is impossible to prescribe a sequence of reforms which is appropriate in all circumstances (DFID 2001).”
There are numerous lessons in the Kosovo experience linking reform to context that can be leveraged by governments around the world.

Hadden Public Financial Management in Government of Kosovo