What is a Voluntary National Review?
Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) are country-led reviews of progress, challenges and next steps in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Presented at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, they provide opportunities for countries to share experience and learn from one another. Their discussions of financing offer a national perspective on how development ambitions can be translated into action.
What did countries share about their INFFs?
Among the 36 countries presenting VNRs in 2026, this blog highlights 13 whose reviews discuss their Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs). These reviews describe efforts to bring public and private financing into closer alignment with national plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They span different stages, from commitments to develop an INFF to implementation of financing strategies, investment mapping and coordination arrangements.
🇦🇱 Albania (report link)
Albania’s review reports that the country has initiated steps towards establishing its INFF to strengthen links between planning, budgeting, financing and monitoring and align public and private resources with national priorities and the SDGs. Drawing on its Development Finance Assessment (DFA), the review highlights gaps in connecting development strategies with the Medium-Term Budget Programme, alongside challenges in public investment management, expenditure forecasting and institutional coordination. It identifies persistent financing gaps in areas including climate action, gender equality and governance, and calls for stronger domestic resource mobilization, SDG budget tagging, improved expenditure tracking and greater private sector participation.
🇧🇮 Burundi (report link)
Burundi’s review calls for updating its financing roadmap to guide the development of an INFF with a strong focus on environmental sustainability. The roadmap draws on consultations with stakeholders and assessments of the country’s financing needs, available funding sources and systems for coordinating and monitoring financing. The review emphasizes the need for public authorities to work together more effectively to mobilize resources from a wider range of sources and turn development partners’ funding commitments into actual disbursements for the SDGs.
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde (report link)
Cabo Verde’s review reports that its INFF process has helped strengthen the national planning system, align the budget with development priorities and create conditions for mobilizing new financing flows for the SDGs. This forms part of efforts to connect the Second Strategic Sustainable Development Plan (PEDS II) with budgetary programming. The review situates this work alongside domestic revenue mobilization, debt management, international cooperation, public-private partnerships and innovative financing.
🇨🇲 Cameroon (report link)
Cameroon’s review identifies its INFF as being operationalized. The review lists it among the mechanisms intended to strengthen coordination and policy coherence for sustainable development, alongside the National Development Strategy 2020–2030 (SND30), sector strategies, regional and municipal development plans, programme evaluation and parliamentary budget orientation debates. The emphasis is on the INFF’s place within the country’s wider planning and coordination arrangements.
🇪🇬 Egypt (report link)
Egypt’s review highlights its Integrated National Financing Strategy (E-INFS), developed using the INFF approach. The strategy was presented internationally in September 2024 and launched nationally in March 2025 under the auspices of the Prime Minister. Aligned with Egypt Vision 2030, the strategy sets out a roadmap to address SDG financing gaps while minimizing fiscal and debt risks. Its approach combines mobilization of domestic and international public and private resources with better alignment of expenditure and greater private sector participation. The review presents E-INFS as an overarching framework connecting revenue mobilization, expenditure efficiency, debt management and innovative financing around national sustainable development priorities.
🇬🇳 Guinea (report link)
Guinea’s review recommends developing an INFF to bring together domestic resources, mining revenues, climate finance, official development assistance, diaspora transfers and private investment around measurable priorities. It proposes using the INFF to identify financing gaps for individual SDGs and match them with corresponding sources of finance. The review sees an INFF aligned with the 2030 Agenda as a way to translate the macroeconomic framework of Programme Simandou 2040 into financing actions.
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau (report link)
Guinea-Bissau’s review includes the development of an INFF among its upcoming actions. Under the National Development Plan 2026–2035, the government commits to a resource mobilization strategy that aim to secure financing for the 2030 Agenda and strengthen domestic resource mobilization. The review identifies the planned INFF as a key instrument for implementing regional and international sustainable development initiatives.
🇯🇴 Jordan (report link)
Jordan’s review positions its INFF as an instrument for bringing domestic and international financing flows together in support of the Economic Modernization Vision and the 2030 Agenda. Its roadmap towards 2030 prioritizes deeper integration of public, private and concessional resources. The review identifies INFF operationalization as part of strengthening the institutional foundations for SDG delivery. It states that the operationalization plan will specify the financing strategy, monitoring architecture and governance arrangements. The broader financing roadmap includes domestic resource mobilization, blended finance, public-private partnerships, SDG-aligned bonds and efforts to access concessional resources.
🇲🇼 Malawi (report link)
Malawi’s review reports a shift since its 2022 VNR from diagnosing financing gaps to implementing a comprehensive, nationally owned financing strategy. Grounded in an assessment of financial flows and gaps, the strategy brings together domestic and international, public and private resources in support of Malawi 2063 and the SDGs, with time-bound initiatives and defined institutional responsibilities.
The review sets out governance arrangements for implementing the INFF: a high-level forum chaired by the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Decentralization; an implementation group led by the Secretary to the Treasury; a technical secretariat within the ministry’s Debt and Aid Division; and coordination groups under Malawi 2063. These arrangements are intended to support oversight, implementation, reporting and coordination across financing sources.
🇷🇼 Rwanda (report link)
Rwanda’s review describes a shift towards a financing approach guided by its 2021 INFF DFA that uses public resources to mobilize private investment through public-private partnerships, blended finance and innovative instruments. This supports the country’s wider development agenda under Vision 2050 and the second National Strategy for Transformation (NST2). Building on the INFF, Rwanda plans to strengthen climate finance, green financing instruments, guarantee schemes and investment platforms to attract domestic and international private capital.
🇸🇳 Senegal (report link)
Senegal’s review reports that it began using an INFF approach in 2020 to strengthen the alignment of public and private financial flows with national sustainable development priorities. The review links the INFF to development of an SDG Investor Map that mapped and validated 23 investment opportunities and estimates the pipeline at CFA francs 3,200 billion over five years, approximately US$5.3 billion.
🇹🇿 Tanzania (report link)
Tanzania’s review reflects the country’s INFF approach by bringing domestic revenue, external finance, private investment, climate finance and public investment management together within a coherent national planning framework. Building on stronger domestic resource mobilisation and budget self-reliance, this approach aims to align different sources of finance with national priorities, strengthen investment facilitation and bankable project pipelines and maintain debt sustainability through concessional finance and disciplined borrowing.
🇹🇬 Togo (report link)
Togo’s review reports that an integrated development financing framework has been operationalized through a project to improve development financing for the achievement of the SDGs. The review places this within efforts to mobilize resources for the government roadmap and strengthen ministries’ ability to attract and manage private financing, particularly through public-private partnerships.
What do these reviews tell us?
Across the 13 reports, three themes stand out:
- Countries are using INFFs to strengthen the connection between national priorities and financing decisions. Cabo Verde highlights planning and budget alignment, Egypt presents a national financing strategy, and Jordan identifies the framework’s role in connecting financing flows with its Economic Modernization Vision. Albania, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau describe the role they envisage for frameworks that are being established or proposed.
- Implementation requires clear responsibilities and coordination. Malawi provides detailed governance arrangements, while Burundi calls for stronger coordination and monitoring capacity. Cameroon and Jordan identify operationalization as part of their wider institutional agendas. These accounts underline the practical work needed to turn a financing framework into coordinated action.
- Public and private financing are being considered together. Senegal’s investment mapping, Rwanda’s plans to use public resources to attract private capital and Togo’s intended financing mix illustrate different approaches. Alongside these efforts, the reviews continue to emphasize domestic revenue, spending efficiency and debt sustainability.
The 2026 VNRs document both progress and work still to be done. Their shared priority is to connect financing more closely with national development goals through stronger strategies, institutions and investment opportunities.
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