At the invitation of the African Development Bank (AfDB), a 3.5 day workshop was held by the PEFA Secretariat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between February 5 to 8, 2013, targeted at English speaking AfDB client countries.

Eight of these countries were represented: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia for a total of twenty one attendees, including three invited European Union Delegation (EUD) representatives.

The workshop was facilitated by Giovanni Caprio (consultant) and Charles Seibert from the PEFA Secretariat. The audience included ministry of finance (MoF) and supreme audit institution (SAI) officials, as well as parliamentarians. The AfDB resident representative, Lamin Barrow, kindly introduced and closed the course.