About the program
Closing the gap between diagnosis and delivery in public investment.
Public investment and asset management are central to a country's ability to turn fiscal resources into tangible development outcomes. Yet across contexts, a persistent gap separates diagnostic insight from implementation — producing inefficiencies, underperforming assets, and lost value in public spending.
Our approach
The World Bank's PIM-PAM program delivers a more impactful set of cross-country support to strengthen the policy and practice that drive development outcomes. It works across the tangible people, process, and technology dimensions of PIM-PAM, guided by three principles:
Demand & ownership
Cultivate real demand and leadership for better PIM-PAM outcomes — even where politics often weighs against professionalism.
Digitalization & AI
Leverage digital tools and AI in smart, targeted ways to support and amplify genuine pockets of demand.
Sustained skills
Build lasting capacity across Ministries of Finance and PIM-PAM lead units, MDAs, sub-national governments, and SOEs.
What this site demonstrates
This engagement site shows how the InfraGov 2.0 modular assessment framework and the pim-pam.net digital tools and learning resources are being leveraged to achieve greater impact — addressing eight key PIM-PAM issues found across many client countries.
Eight key PIM-PAM issues
For each issue: what we measure, the gap we typically find, and the action we take.
Awareness
Measure
Diagnostics — PIMA, PEFA, PFRs, and the new InfraGov 2.0 assessments — give a rapid read on where things can be improved.
Gap
These reports are a first step, but too often simply regurgitate the issues raised in earlier rounds.
Action
Distinguish genuinely new issues from repeats. Rank policy and practice measures against expected outcomes for the next three budget years, with KPIs for the existing PIM pipeline and portfolio.
Political demand
Measure
Boost professional leadership demand in the face of political inertia and vested interests.
Gap
Engagement languishes at the level of workshops and proceduralism, with no senior commitment to reform actions or measurable outcomes (e.g. the number and value of public investment flows affected).
Action
Validate demand at senior levels and communicate it to the technical level, together with clear outcome measures.
Limited PIM impact (materiality & proportionality)
Measure
Quantify the functional impact of PIM policy and practice.
Gap
No clear baseline for the “denominator” — total capital budgets and investments over the past three years, and project identifiers.
Action
Measure the denominator against policy guidance: which projects should be subject to PIM, and how many actually are.
Prioritizing PIM policy gaps
Measure
Pinpoint which specific parts of the policy framework need changing or updating to address the issues.
Gap
No clear inventory of the current policy profile, with many drafts still in progress.
Action
Use pim-pam.ai for systematic review — benchmarking the de jure context against the status that available drafts would create if promulgated.
Prioritizing practice gaps at the MoF / PIM-unit level
Measure
Strengthen the pipeline and portfolio oversight data the Ministry of Finance currently provides.
Gap
Proponents bypass the PIM process; capacity for project review is weak.
Action
Alongside metrics, introduce AI-supported readiness assessments and practical digital tools that strengthen the support-and-challenge function.
Prioritizing practice gaps at the proponent level (national, SNG, SOE)
Measure
Strengthen pipeline and portfolio oversight data by sector.
Gap
Proponents bypass the PIM process; capacity for project preparation is weak.
Action
Alongside metrics, introduce end-user-centric digital and AI tools to support project preparation and strengthen the support-and-challenge function.
Climate change addressed only in the abstract
Measure
Sharpen the functional assessment of climate against policies and practices.
Gap
Foundational PIM processes are lacking, with little real understanding of the climate adaptation or mitigation function and limited access to fit-for-purpose data.
Action
Alongside metrics, introduce geospatial, end-user-centric digital and AI tools to support project preparation and strengthen the support-and-challenge function.
PIM–PFM coherence
Measure
The extent to which PIM reform design reflects the broader PFM system context.
Gap
PIM reforms are frequently designed in isolation from the wider PFM environment, producing technically sound outputs but ineffective results given the lack of complementary upstream or downstream reforms or institutional capacity.
Action
Before designing PIM interventions, identify binding PFM constraints and sequence reforms accordingly. Ensure PIM reforms speak to the broader PFM reform framework, and avoid technically correct reforms that outrun the institutional capacity to implement them.
Knowledge session
Taking these approaches forward, together
Against this backdrop, the Financial Management Umbrella Program (FMUP), in collaboration with the Government of Austria, is convening a knowledge session to explore how this implementation gap can be closed through more practical, scalable approaches. The session focuses on the InfraGov 2.0 framework and associated tools — helping governments and practitioners strengthen decision-making, improve asset management, and raise the effectiveness of public investment systems.
It brings together development partners and practitioners for an interactive discussion on applying these approaches across country contexts — with a focus on relevance, alignment with partner priorities, and opportunities to support uptake and scaling — and on identifying next steps for collaboration.