During the framing workshop, 6 country teams from the Central African Republic, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Lesotho, Liberia and Nigeria gathered in South Africa and embarked on an action-learning journey to tackle locally nominated public financial management problems through the use of the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach. At the workshop teams learnt how to construct and deconstruct their PFM problems defining: (i) an aspirational goal for their work, (ii) causes and sub-causes of the problem identified, and (iii) immediate steps they will start taking to solve this problem. The workshop was jointly facilitated by CABRI and Harvard Center for International Development’s Building State Capability (BSC) program.