We are thrilled to announce that we are the EU4PFMCambodia team! Following the Public Finance Management (PFM) Reform agenda of the Kingdom of Cambodia our team will support the Royal Government of Cambodia to making the Public Financial System deliver on its promise of a better life for Cambodian citizens. We will strive to build bridges among key PFM institutional and human factors and PFM actors in the framework of the EU's GLOBALGATEWAY. Key team members leading this endeavour are our Sebastien Dubost focusing on PFM and Budget Support matters and Steen Bruun-Nielsen focusing on the Public Procurement System.

The EU-funded Project Preparation Facility (PPF) Technical Assistance team held its third Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting in the Ministry of Finance on 19 October 2023.

The PSC meeting was chaired by Ana Luca, Deputy General State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and co-chaired by Josip Juric, European Union Delegation Programme Manager. The meeting was attended by PSC members Viorel Pana, Head of Public Investment Directorate and Elena Matveeva, Head of Public Debt and External Assistance General Directorate. Other MoF officials attending were: Lilia Taban, Deputy Head of Public Investment Directorate, Ina Darii, Deputy Head of State Treasury Directorate and Aurel Jucov, Consultant, Lead Consultant, External Assistance Policy Divison.

Yiannis Hadziyiannakis, Team Leader of the PPF Project delivered a presentation on the progress and pending issues across the five components of the PPF Project. Josip Juric followed with a small presentation about a possible future extension of the PPF Project enhancing the scope to cover areas of support requested by MoF and to improve capacity in relations to Moldova’s EU Enlargement process.

The EU-funded Project Preparation Facility (PPF) Technical Assistance team delivered a pilot training course on Project Appraisal to the National Agency for Energy Regulation (ANRE), Moldelectrica and the Moldova Energy Projects Implementation Unit (MEPIU) during 16-18 May 2022.

The main objective of the course was to introduce participants to the newly approved national procedure for the design and appraisal of public investment projects as per Government of Moldova Regulation No. 684/29 September 2022.