## Regional Capacity Development Centers ## Source details **Canonical URL:** [Regional Capacity Development Centers](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/brochure-regional-capacity-development-center-september-2022.pdf) ## Other formats - [Markdown version](/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/brochure-regional-capacity-development-center-september-2022.pdf.md) - [Structured JSON version](/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/brochure-regional-capacity-development-center-september-2022.pdf.json) --- ### Overview - The IMF provides capacity development on macroeconomic issues to countries to enhance economic policies and institutions, focusing on core areas such as raising public revenues, managing public resources, modernizing banking systems, advising on legal frameworks, and improving economic analysis, forecasting, and macroeconomic and financial statistics reporting. - The IMF’s global network of regional centers coordinates much of the IMF’s capacity development delivery on the ground, tailored to each region’s priorities and working closely with member countries and development partners. - For more than 50 years, the IMF has worked with member countries to modernize institutions, train personnel, strengthen economic policies, and promote peer learning. - Host countries and partners provide more than three-quarters of the resources needed to run the centers and contribute expertise to ensure coordination, efficient delivery, and sharing of best practices. - Macroeconomic stability, growth, and poverty reduction are identified as essential for countries to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. ### Top partners and resource contributors - GERMANY - JAPAN - EUROPEAN UNION - CHINA - UNITED KINGDOM - SWITZERLAND - NETHERLANDS - FRANCE - CANADA - AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND - LUXEMBOURG - KUWAIT - KOREA - NORWAY - MEXICO - UNITED STATES - CABEI - ASIA DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) - CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (CDB) ### Regional highlights, findings, and results - WESTERN AFRICA (AFRITAC West) - Organized an inter-regional seminar to raise awareness of climate-related risks to banking and financial systems, presenting initial principles and approaches used by two supervisory authorities. - CARIBBEAN (CARTAC) - 2021 marked CARTAC’s 20th anniversary. - Ongoing assistance on debt management as countries face widening financing requirements, rising debt levels, COVID-19 challenges, and natural disaster risks. - MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (METAC) - Supported Jordanian Income and Sales Tax Department to establish a Risk Management Unit, implement a risk register, and develop a tax risk management strategy focused on four pillars of compliance. - Assisted development of compliance improvement plans for large taxpayers and independent professionals. - As a result of the implementation of the CIP for independent professionals, a medical professionals’ campaign was approved and implemented, contributing to an increase of tax filings by 24% and declared tax by 140% between 2020 and 2021. - EUROPE, THE CAUCASUS, AND CENTRAL ASIA (JVI) - JVI, created in Vienna in 1992, provides policy-oriented training for participants from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. - Expanded curriculum with two courses and a webinar series on the economics of climate change and policy options. - SOUTHERN AFRICA (AFS) - Helped revenue administrations strengthen compliance risk management, tax audits, and business continuity plans. - Assisted in bolstering transparency of large spending programs and delivered workshops on stress testing and crisis impact assessment; plans to increase support on governance, climate resilience, gender, and digitalization. - PACIFIC (PFTAC) - Advised Pacific Island Countries highly dependent on tourism on revenue-enhancing strategies during COVID-19. - Advised the Cook Islands on tax compliance strategies to safeguard taxpayer compliance and protect tax collections financing expanded social protection programs. - CENTRAL AMERICA, PANAMA, AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (CAPTAC-DR) - Assisted Costa Rica’s customs authorities in launching the Aduana Fácil portal aligned with the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement; after one year the portal reached over 330,000 visitors from 100 different countries. - WEST AFRICA II (AFRITAC West 2) - Continued advice on building institutional resilience and protecting revenue during the COVID-19 crisis to entities including the Cabo Verde National Directorate of State Revenues, Ghana Revenue Authority, and Sierra Leone National Revenue Authority. - CENTRAL AFRICA (AFRITAC Central) - Provided methodological support, with the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, to the Democratic Republic of Congo in drafting the 2020 supplementary budget law and the 2021 initial budget law, with emphasis on management of COVID-19 funds. - EAST AFRICA (AFE) - AFE, which turned 20 in 2022, provided technical assistance in revenue mobilization, public financial management, monetary and financial sector policies, and macroeconomic statistics. - Advised Kenya and Rwanda on preparing annual fiscal risk statements including deeper analysis of risks from public-private partnerships and state-owned enterprises. - Supported South Sudan in strengthening treasury cash management and banking supervision. - CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MONGOLIA (CCAMTAC) - After its virtual launch in February 2021, CCAMTAC began assisting members on macro-frameworks, public financial management, revenue administration, banking supervision and regulation, monetary and foreign exchange operations, and statistics, complemented by regional events on pandemic exit, climate, digitalization, and regional research. - SOUTH ASIA (SARTTAC) - SARTTAC and CDOT held a regional workshop on digitalization and public financial management attended by more than 125 officials from 14 South and Southeast Asia countries; the workshop reviewed digitalization progress, emerging technologies, and strategic choices for further digitalization. - THAILAND (CDOT) - CDOT assists mainland Southeast Asia on topics including digital payments, crypto ecosystems, the role of finance ministries in addressing climate change, fiscal forecasting, and consumer price index continuity. - SINGAPORE TRAINING INSTITUTE (STI) - Created after the 1998 Asian crisis, STI has provided training for almost 25 years and launched two new courses on climate and fintech. - In January 2022, STI staff led a technical assistance mission in Cambodia supporting the Ministry of Economy and Finance in developing a model-based macroeconomic framework and fine-tuning communication of results. - Launched a Peer-Learning Series open to the public covering regional case studies on digital money and technology issues. - MIDDLE EAST CENTER FOR ECONOMICS & FINANCE (CEF) - Based in Kuwait and offers a comprehensive program of courses for government officials from 22 Arab countries on topics including macroeconomic diagnostics, macro-stress testing, financial sector surveillance, gender and climate budgeting. - CHINA-IMF CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER (CICDC) - Established in May 2017 by the IMF and the People’s Bank of China and inaugurated in April 2018 in Beijing to provide IMF training for China and some additional member country counterparts. - CICDC courses cover fiscal framework, DSGE modelling for fiscal and monetary policies, banking restructuring and resolution, systemic macro-financial risk, and inclusive growth. - AFRICA TRAINING INSTITUTE (ATI) - Delivers a broad curriculum to officials from 45 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa on fiscal, monetary, exchange rate policies, debt sustainability, financial sector supervision, macroeconomic management of resource-rich countries, and emerging areas such as governance and corruption, macroeconomics of gender, and climate change. ### Capacity development modalities and recent activities - Bilateral technical assistance complemented by regional events and peer learning. - Workshops, seminars, and training courses addressing emerging issues: climate-related financial risks, digitalization of public financial management, tax compliance strategies during COVID-19, fiscal risk statements, and macroeconomic frameworks. - Examples of measurable outcomes: - Aduana Fácil portal: over 330,000 visitors from 100 different countries in one year. - Jordan tax measures: tax filings increased by 24% and declared tax increased by 140% between 2020 and 2021. - Centers respond quickly to emerging needs such as pandemic exit strategies, climate resilience, digitalization, governance, gender, and fintech. ### Locations and host countries - Selected regional center locations and host cities mentioned include: - CARTAC — St. Michael, Barbados - CAPTAC-DR — Guatemala City, Guatemala - JVI — Vienna, Austria - PFTAC — Suva, Fiji - STI — Singapore, Republic of Singapore - CDOT — Bangkok, Thailand - SARTTAC — New Delhi, India - CICDC — Beijing, China - CCAMTAC — Almaty, Kazakhstan - AFRITAC East — Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - AFRITAC West — Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire - AFRITAC West 2 — Accra, Ghana - AFRITAC Central — Libreville, Gabon - AFRITAC South — Ebene, Mauritius - ATI — Ebene, Mauritius - METAC — Beirut, Lebanon - CEF — Salmiyah, Kuwait --- _Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/brochure-regional-capacity-development-center-september-2022.pdf_