## Partnerships for Capacity Development

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**Canonical URL:** [Partnerships for Capacity Development](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/imf-partnerships-brochure-september-2019.pdf)

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### IMF role and approach
- The IMF provides capacity development support to its members to enhance economic policies and institutions and to help countries make progress toward the SDGs.
- For more than 50 years, the IMF has provided technical assistance and training to help countries strengthen economic institutions and empower the people who run them.
- Capacity development is fully integrated with the IMF’s responsibilities to track global and country-level economic developments and lend to countries facing economic crises.
- Most support goes to low-income and developing countries, including those in fragile situations; a fast-growing online learning program extends reach further.
- IMF staff work with country officials upon request to provide hands-on expert advice, training, and peer learning.

### Objectives and areas of support
- Build diagnostic, forecasting, and modeling tools for policy formulation.
- Develop resilient banking and financial systems to foster inclusion and fuel growth and investment.
- Raise revenues and manage public spending for better services like schools, roads, and hospitals.
- Apply best practice debt management tools to ensure debt sustainability.
- Strengthen legal and governance frameworks to fight corruption, money laundering, and terrorism financing.
- Enhance data collection and reporting for better policymaking, transparency, and accountability.
- Help countries tackle emerging challenges like income and gender inequality and climate change.

### Regional footprint and delivery network
- Work is coordinated by 16 regional centers with support from thematic funds and bilateral projects.
- A global network of regional centers provides on-the-ground support.
- Regional centers listed in the publication include:
  - AFRICA: Côte d’Ivoire AFRITAC West; Gabon AFRITAC Central; Ghana AFRITAC West 2; Mauritius AFRITAC South; Africa Training Institute (ATI); Tanzania AFRITAC East
  - MIDDLE EAST: Kuwait Middle East Center for Economics & Finance (CEF); Lebanon METAC
  - ASIA: China CICDC; Fiji PFTAC; India SARTTAC; Singapore Singapore Training Institute (STI); Thailand CDOT
  - EUROPE: Austria Joint Vienna Institute (JVI)
  - WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Barbados CARTAC; Guatemala CAPTAC-DR
- Quote attributed to the National Bank of Rwanda: “What we appreciate about IMF regional centers: their proximity, their timely advice, their hands-on support for reform implementation.”

### Thematic funds and global programs
- Thematic funds offer global assistance in critical areas:
  - Improving Revenue Mobilization, Fiscal and Natural Resource Management
    - fRevenue Mobilization
    - fManaging Natural Resource Wealth
    - fTax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool
  - Promoting Financial Sector Stability and Access, and Addressing Debt Issues
    - fAnti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism
    - fFinancial Sector Stability
    - fDebt Management Facility
    - fFinancial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative
  - Strengthening Economic Decision-Making Through Better Statistics
    - fData for Decisions
  - Supporting Fragile States
    - fFunds for South Sudan and Somalia
- Free, publicly accessible online courses are available through the IMF’s partnership with edX; the publication invites users to join over 46,000 LEARNERS and sign up for free online courses at IMF.org/moocs.

### Illustrative country outcomes and impacts
- NEPAL was removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s “grey list” after strengthening its financial sector and implementing important legal reforms to combat money laundering; this helped Nepal attract investments, mobilize resources, and boost economic growth and stability.
- UGANDA reformed its tax system and raised the revenue-to-GDP ratio from 11.2% to 14.4% during 2012–18. With IMF help, it streamlined value-added tax, harmonized administrative procedures, and is developing a medium-term plan for further revenue mobilization.
- SOMALIA is strengthening key policymaking institutions and enhancing economic resilience with IMF support, helping to enhance public financial management, modernize tax administration, broaden the revenue base, strengthen central bank organization and governance, boost financial sector oversight, and establish a currency reform framework.

### Climate resilience and debt management
- The IMF helps Pacific Island countries conduct debt sustainability assessments and create robust public financial management plans to better prepare for natural disasters.
- In Belize, Seychelles, and St. Lucia, the IMF has conducted climate policy assessments that take stock of current situations and identify investment and policy needs to address climate change effects.
- DEBT MANAGEMENT CAPACITY in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), Barbados, Belize, and Jamaica has been strengthened with IMF support; all countries now produce medium-term debt management strategies and can better assess the costs and risks in their debt portfolios and borrowing strategies.
- The IMF’s annual FINANCIAL ACCESS SURVEY collects data for 189 countries on access and use of financial services, including gender-disaggregated data, helping policymakers measure and monitor financial inclusion and benchmark progress toward the SDGs.

### Partnerships and funding
- Financial contributions from partners bolster the IMF’s ability to deliver high-quality technical assistance and training that is responsive and aligned with IMF and global priorities and help the IMF be more accountable and results-oriented.
- Over 40 partners support IMF capacity development; partner names and logos appear in the publication.

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/brochures/imf-partnerships-brochure-september-2019.pdf_