This document discusses Budget Credibility and Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF), focusing on how INFFs can help countries implement the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and achieve sustainable development priorities. It emphasizes the importance of budget credibility in mobilizing finance for the SDGs and outlines the impact, causes, and potential solutions for budget deviations. The document also highlights the interactions between budget credibility and various types of public and private finance, and presents assessment tools to measure budget deviations. Additionally, it provides a “How to” section with policy options for each INFF Building Block, supported by country case studies.

About INFF technical guidance documents

In response to the considerable and growing interest from countries to receive further guidance and support to design the INFFs, additional technical guidance documents, built on existing global guidance, are now published to provide practical support to INFF country-level implementation.

The technical guidance documents are tailored to specific country contexts, SDG sectors, and financing policy areas, all benefiting from initial insights and country experiences. The documents are intended to assist policymakers in the identification of sectoral and country group challenges, and policymaking that finance the national sustainable development objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the INFFs.

The technical guidance documents strengthen the feedback loop between country-level implementation on the one hand, and global guidance work and technical assistance and capacity development efforts on the other. The documents will continue to be living documents, and will be updated as country experience, insight, and learning about the application of the INFF approach to the challenges of financing the SDGs at the country level keeps progressing.