PPIAF Annual Report 2015

In 2015, PPIAF’s work focused on developing strategic engagements that seek to leverage PPIAF resources with partnerships for greater effects . Programmatic technical assistance (TA) is a sequence of activities designed to tackle multiple aspects of the enabling environment in a country, region or sector over the course of one or more years, to achieve more wide-ranging objectives; strategic knowledge initiatives, on the other hand, use the same partnership principles to leverage knowledge resources to tackle a global learning question . Programmatic TA and strategic knowledge activities comprised 24 percent of PPIAF assistance in 2015.

In fiscal 2015, PPIAF approved 60 activities worth $16 .95 million . Although this fell short of the ambitions set out in the FY15-17 Strategy1 and Business Plan2, it still represents an increase over the previous year’s figure ($16 .75 million) . There is also a strong pipeline of activities developed but not yet approved as of June 30 . The larger average activity size in fiscal 2015 ($308,000) compared to fiscal 2014 and 13 (respectively $213,000 and $171,000) reflects the same shift towards broader and more committed engagements .