Enhanced Standards for PEFA Reports: Launch of the New PEFA Check Criteria

See https://pefa.org/news/enhanced-standards-pefa-reports-launch-new-pefa-c….

Since 2012 countries undertaking a PEFA assessment have been able to submit their reports for consideration for a ‘PEFA Check”, a quality assurance process, managed by the PEFA Secretariat to indicate compliance with good practices in the process of undertaking a PEFA assessment.

The evaluation of phase 4 of the PEFA program concluded that the PEFA Check process should be streamlined and strengthened to cover quality assurance of report content as well as compliance with process. In response to this recommendation, the PEFA Secretariat has strengthened the existing requirements and introduced quality index thresholds on both (i) the extent to which report coverage complies with the recommended structure and format set out in PEFA 2016; and (ii) the extent to which indicator and dimension scores and supporting narrative comply with PEFA 2016 measurement guidance and evidence requirement.