Public financial management is focused on how the public sector prioritizes, plans, and executes its national finances. It includes efforts to mainstream sustainable development (including conservation) into national and local government planning and budgeting processes as well effective disbursement, different forms of fiscal transfers, and budget tracking. Assuring adequate allocations to conservation in national budgets can be challenging and often data driven approaches such as performance-based budgeting, identification of key performance indicators, and responding to strategic economic priorities (jobs, hard currency, etc.) can assist government agencies and partners to convince decision makers of the importance of investing in nature. National government budgetary allocations are the largest stable source of finance for nature in most countries.
Public Fiscal Planning and Budgeting
Fiscal Transfers
Earmarking Revenues for Nature