The capability of finance and planning ministries is shaped by leadership, staff, institutional and contextual factors. CABRI‘s research in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Rwanda examined when ministries of finance are best able to coordinate the activities of different actors in integrating public capital with recurrent expenditure to facilitate optimal expenditure choices for the achievement of the policy objective, given different country institutional and economic circumstances? This policy dialogue builds on the research to enable participating countries to consider ways in which they can improve planning for, budgeting, financing and executing infrastructure projects in transparent, accountable and sustainable ways.