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  "title": "Digital Horizons-Transforming Public Financial Management for Tomorrow High-Level Forum",
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  "summary": "Back to top Digital Horizons-Transforming Public Financial Management for Tomorrow High-Level Forum Invitation Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-29",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- High-level officials from Ministries of Finance, including vice-minister/permanent secretary level representatives responsible for PFM functions (treasury, budget, fiscal policy).\n- High-level officials in charge of digitalization efforts within the Ministry such as Vice-ministers, Directors General of Information Technology, or Chief Digital Officers."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Scope and purpose",
      "content": "- The forum will facilitate strategic discussion at a senior policymaking level on sustainable approaches to PFM digitalization and capacity development in Southeast and South Asia.\n- It will address challenges and opportunities in anchoring digital PFM reforms within broader public sector modernization strategies.\n- It will provide a platform for peer learning and strategic engagement among senior leaders."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Core themes and program focus",
      "content": "- Anchoring digital PFM reforms within broader public sector modernization strategies.\n- Institutional coordination and reform sequencing for digital PFM.\n- Aligning leadership across technical and policy domains.\n- Strategic engagement among policymakers, academia, professional organizations, civil society, and the private sector to shape PFM digitalization direction."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Provide a platform for senior leaders from Ministries of Finance and related IT support functions to learn from peers and engage with seasoned PFM and digitalization experts.\n- Facilitate strategic dialogue among policymakers, academia and leaders from professional organizations, civil society, and private sector to shape the direction of PFM digitalization.\n- Discuss strategies for positioning PFM digitalization as an enabler of fiscal governance and advancing national priorities such as inclusion, climate resilience, or transparency.\n- Identify approaches to foster institutional coordination, long-term planning, and leadership development across ministries and levels of government.\n- Reflect on addressing key challenges such as the political economy of change, talent retention, stakeholder alignment, and reform sequencing."
    }
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    "High-level officials from Ministries of Finance, including vice-minister/permanent secretary level representatives responsible for PFM functions (treasury, budget, fiscal policy).",
    "High-level officials in charge of digitalization efforts within the Ministry such as Vice-ministers, Directors General of Information Technology, or Chief Digital Officers.",
    "The forum will facilitate strategic discussion at a senior policymaking level on sustainable approaches to PFM digitalization and capacity development in Southeast and South Asia.",
    "It will address challenges and opportunities in anchoring digital PFM reforms within broader public sector modernization strategies.",
    "It will provide a platform for peer learning and strategic engagement among senior leaders.",
    "Anchoring digital PFM reforms within broader public sector modernization strategies.",
    "Institutional coordination and reform sequencing for digital PFM.",
    "Aligning leadership across technical and policy domains.",
    "Strategic engagement among policymakers, academia, professional organizations, civil society, and the private sector to shape PFM digitalization direction.",
    "Provide a platform for senior leaders from Ministries of Finance and related IT support functions to learn from peers and engage with seasoned PFM and digitalization experts.",
    "Facilitate strategic dialogue among policymakers, academia and leaders from professional organizations, civil society, and private sector to shape the direction of PFM digitalization.",
    "Discuss strategies for positioning PFM digitalization as an enabler of fiscal governance and advancing national priorities such as inclusion, climate resilience, or transparency.",
    "Identify approaches to foster institutional coordination, long-term planning, and leadership development across ministries and levels of government.",
    "Reflect on addressing key challenges such as the political economy of change, talent retention, stakeholder alignment, and reform sequencing."
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