Accra, Ghana — The 1st Vice President of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN), Dr. Ibrahim Awe Agboluga, FCNA, mni, participated as a resource person at the 2026 IPSASB Public Financial Management Forum and quarterly Board meeting held in Accra, Ghana, from September 14 to 18, 2026.
Dr. Agboluga represented the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA) as a member of its Public Value Management (PVM) Technical Advisory Group, with the support and sponsorship of ANAN.
The programme, organised in collaboration with the African Union (AU), International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) and African Association of Accountants General (AAAG), brought together public-sector accounting and financial management experts from across Africa and beyond.
At a key continental roundtable on “From Standards to Systems: Building Africa’s IPSAS Implementation Architecture for Transparent, Comparable and Trusted Public Financial Reporting,” Dr. Agboluga spoke on “Collaboration, Peer Learning and Continental Support for IPSAS Implementation.”
His presentation proposed an African IPSAS Implementation Support Framework based on the principle of “One Country, One Plan, Many Partners.” It advocates country-owned implementation plans supported by AAAG, PAFA, AFROSAI-E, the AU Commission, IPSASB and development partners.
The framework assigns complementary roles to the institutions, including country implementation leadership, professional capacity development, audit readiness, continental leadership, technical guidance and long-term financing.
It further proposes an African IPSAS Centre of Excellence, country diagnostic and maturity assessments, peer reviews, country compacts and an implementation dashboard to promote knowledge sharing, transparency and measurable progress. It emphasises that IPSAS implementation is a people-and-institution reform, not merely a standards exercise.
The discussions stressed the importance of moving away from fragmented projects and one-size-fits-all approaches towards country-owned plans, coordinated support, peer learning and integrated reforms covering people, systems, auditing and governance.
For Dr. Agboluga, the engagement marked his third invitation to serve as a resource person at an IPSAS-related international engagement, further reflecting his contribution to pu asblic-sector accounting, financial management and professional capacity development in Africa.
The Accra engagement reinforced the importance of continental collaboration in translating IPSAS standards into effective systems that promote transparency, accountability, sound public financial management and public value.
