## Box 1. Development of an Integrated Database on IMF Training

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### Background and identified gaps
- Comprehensive data on the INS training program existed, but there was no integrated database covering all IMF training.
- Notable deficiencies:
  - Information on participants in courses outside the INS umbrella either were not maintained or were not readily accessible, adding imprecision to assessments of the regional distribution of training.
  - Course participants were selected without complete information on the IMF courses that candidates had previously attended.
  - Fund staff wishing to have lists of Fund-trained officials for the countries on which they were working had been limited to participants in INS-organized courses.
- Information gaps were less pronounced for the number of training activities outside INS, but:
  - No systematic approach to data collection.
  - Limited information assembled on the content, length, and target audiences of these courses.
  - No clear guidelines on how training and TA should be distinguished.

### Remedy: extension of PATS and responsibilities
- Agreed remedy (2006): extend usage of the INS Participant and Applicant Tracking System (PATS), a database specifically designed for storing and analyzing information on training activities and course participants.
- Implementation features:
  - INS and TGS designed standardized user-friendly spreadsheets and online submission forms for upload into PATS.
  - IMF training departments and RTACs assume responsibility for submitting data to INS on a timely basis.
  - System maintenance and management are the responsibility of INS and TGS.
- Resource implications:
  - For RTACs and training departments other than INS, the main resource cost is staff time to submit information on individual course participants; costs reduced if administrators already record participant information on INS-provided forms.
  - For INS, it is estimated that more than half-a-person year of time was required during 2007 to handle additional work associated with maintaining the expanded PATS database, instructing and supporting other departments, monitoring data quality, communicating with other departments and RTACs to obtain complete reporting, and responding to additional demands for information.

### 2007 IMF training: summary measures (from PATS and department/RTAC reports)
- Participant weeks of training (total and by program):
  - Total participant weeks: 12,570
  - Within INS Program: 9,434
  - Outside INS Program: 3,136
- Number of officials trained:
  - Total officials trained: 7,534
  - Within INS Program: 4,332
  - Outside INS Program: 3,202
- Breakdown by provider (participant weeks; officials trained):
  - IMF Institute: 6,108 (within INS), 0 (outside INS); Officials trained: 2,518 (within INS), 0 (outside INS)
  - Other IMF Departments: 5,756 total; 3,326 (within INS); 2,430 (outside INS). Officials trained: 4,108 total; 1,814 (within INS); 2,294 (outside INS)
  - RTACs: 706 total; 0 (within INS); 706 (outside INS). Officials trained: 809 total; 0 (within INS); 809 (outside INS)
- Memorandum item — Training delivered by, or in collaboration with, RTACs:
  - Participant weeks: 1,642 total; 217 (within INS); 1,425 (outside INS)
  - Officials trained: 1,645 total; 111 (within INS); 1,534 (outside INS)

### Distributional shares and venues (2007)
- Distribution of IMF training (participant weeks) by program/source:
  - IMF Institute: 49%
  - Other Departments Within INS Program: 26%
  - RTACs: 6%
  - Other Departments Outside INS Program: 19%
- Distribution of total IMF training among training venues (participant weeks):
  - Regional Training Centers: 40%
  - IMF Headquarters: 22%
  - RTACs: 13%
  - Distance Learning: 5%
  - Other Overseas Venues: 20%
- RTAC venues distribution (participant weeks):
  - PFTAC: 9%
  - Central AFRITAC: 2%
  - East AFRITAC: 15%
  - West AFRITAC: 27%
  - CARTAC: 32%
  - METAC: 15%
- Regional distribution of total IMF training (participant weeks):
  - Africa: 26%
  - Asia and Pacific: 26%
  - Europe: 12%
  - Middle East and Central Asia: 19%
  - Western Hemisphere: 17%
- Note: Officials from Africa and the Asia-Pacific region received the largest shares of IMF training in absolute terms; Asia-Pacific received the lowest volume relative to population size. Officials from Africa and the Middle East and Central Asia received the most training per capita; European officials received the smallest share.

### Curriculum of the INS training program (emphases and changes)
- Pedagogical focus:
  - INS courses emphasize practical applications of theory to policy analysis, with lectures supplemented by workshop exercises using real-world case studies.
- Topic-area distribution of INS program training (participant weeks, 2007):
  - Financial Programming and Policies (FPP): 34%
  - Courses by STA (statistics courses for compilers of official macroeconomic data): 23%
  - Monetary and Financial Sector Issues: 16%
  - Fiscal Issues: 14%
  - Legal Courses Including AML/CFT: 5%
  - Other Courses: 4%
  - Macroeconomic Diagnostics (INS): 3%
  - High-Level Seminars: 1%
- FPP specifics and delivery in 2007:
  - FPP accounted for 34 percent of the participant weeks of training.
  - Deliveries included: seventeen two-week offerings outside Washington; five deliveries of the flagship seven-week course at HQ; the initial delivery of a new five-week FPP with inflation targeting; four offerings of the distance learning course; and two one-week workshops.
  - Distance learning FPP structure: ten-week distance segment (approximately ten hours of training per week) followed by an intensive two-week residential segment.
  - FPP target audience: mid-level officials who provide advice on macroeconomic and financial policies or are involved in implementing policy.
  - Curriculum upgrades implemented during 2007 give greater emphasis to international capital flows, balance sheet effects, and banking systems, including designing programs for countries experiencing capital account crises.
- Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS):
  - Included to complement emphasis on formulation and implementation of adjustment programs.
  - First offering as a four-week HQ course in 2005; in 2007 a compressed two-week course for overseas delivery was offered twice, with plans to expand MDS in the future.
- Trends relative to early 2000s:
  - 2007 INS program placed less emphasis (in relative terms) on financial programming than at the beginning of the decade, small new emphasis on macroeconomic diagnostics, and roughly the same emphasis on macroeconomic statistics.
  - The proportion devoted to monetary and financial sector issues declined somewhat, though INS expanded offerings on financial markets and instruments and strengthened monetary policy and exchange rate coverage.
  - The share of training on fiscal issues almost doubled, as INS greatly increased its emphasis in response to member country demand.

### Appendix Table A6 — overview and reporting scope
- Appendix Table A6 lists courses offered outside the INS training program during 2007, as reported to INS by other training departments and the RTACs.
- Training events with fewer than 10 participants are not included in the statistics or course lists compiled for this Report.
- Source system: PATS System, IMF Institute.
- Reporting note: As reported to INS by IMF departments and RTACs with reference to the guidelines for distinguishing between training and TA (see Box 1, note 4).

### Courses by RTAC / Regional Program (selected totals and examples)
- Central AFRITAC — Total: 1.6 course weeks
  - Management and Control of Large Taxpayer Units — 0.6 course weeks — Gabon — FAD
  - Statistics and Reports Using the UNCTAD's DMFASS Software — 1.0 course weeks — Gabon — MCM
- East AFRITAC — Total: 8.0 course weeks
  - A Risk-Based Approach to AML/CFT Supervision — 1.0 — Tanzania — MCM
  - Banking Supervision - Intermediate Level — 2.0 — Tanzania — MCM
  - Design and Implementing Public Financial Management Reforms — 1.0 — Tanzania — FAD
  - Revenue Estimation and Forecasting — 1.8 — Kenya — FAD
  - Risk Management in Customs Administration — 1.2 — Kenya — FAD
  - VAT Design and Administration — 1.0 — Kenya — FAD
- West AFRITAC — Total: 13.6 course weeks
  - Country Workshop on Debt Sustainability Analysis — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Budgetary Classifications and Tracking Poverty-Reducing Spending — 0.8 — Burkina Faso
  - Regional Seminar on Central and Local Government Accounting: Training of Trainers I — 0.8 — Benin
  - Regional Seminar on Central and Local Government Accounting: Training of Trainers I — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Credit Bureaus — 0.6 — Togo
  - Regional Seminar on Customs Surveillance and Fight against Fraud — 0.6 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Debt Statistics — 0.8 — Senegal
  - Regional Seminar on Domestic Debt Management — 0.8 — Côte d'Ivoire
  - Regional Seminar on Government Finance Statistics — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 — 2.0 — Togo
  - Regional Seminar on Implementing an accounting Framework for Microfinance Institutions — 1.0 — Côte d'Ivoire
  - Regional Seminar on Internal Control in Tax and Customs Administrations — 0.6 — Guinea
  - Regional Seminar on Legal and Regulatory Framework of Microfinance Institutions — 0.6 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Using Government Finance Statistics in Building Public Administration Accounts in National Accounts — 0.8 — Senegal
  - Regional Seminar on Value-Added Taxation — 0.8 — Benin
  - Regional Seminar on Taxation of Small Enterprises — 0.4 — Mauritania
- CARTAC — Total: 21.4 course weeks
  - 10 Hot Tax Topics — 1.0 — Barbados — FAD
  - Advanced Internal Audit — 1.0 — Cayman Islands — FAD
  - Advanced Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Lucia — FAD
  - Basic Internal Audit — 1.0 — Belize — FAD
  - Basic Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Vincent and the Grenadines — FAD
  - Financial Programming and Policies — 2.0 — Belize
  - Government Finance Statistics — 2.0 — St. Kitts and Nevis — STA
  - Introduction to Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Kitts and Nevis — FAD
  - Macroeconomic Statistics for Economists — 1.0 — Guyana
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Barbados — STA
  - Regional Seminar on Trust Examination Skills — 0.6 — Turks and Caicos Islands
  - Revenue Forecasting Workshop — 1.4 — Barbados — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.6 — Dominica — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.4 — St. Kitts and Nevis — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.4 — Trinidad and Tobago — FAD
  - Workshop on Insurance Regulation and Supervision — 1.0 — British Virgin Islands — MCM
- METAC — Total: 5.4 course weeks
  - Consolidated Supervision Workshop — 0.8 — Lebanon
  - Government Finance Statistics — 1.0 — Jordan
  - International Investment Position Statistics — 0.6 — Egypt
  - International Transactions Reporting System Workshop — 0.4 — Syrian Arab Republic
  - International Transactions Reporting System Workshop — 0.4 — Syrian Arab Republic
  - Iraq: Issues in Tax Policy — 0.6 — Lebanon — FAD
  - Treasury Management Seminar — 1.0 — Lebanon — FAD
  - VAT Fraud and Audit Issues — 0.6 — Lebanon
- PFTAC — Total: 7.5 course weeks
  - Capacity Building in Debt Strategy and Sustainability Analysis — 0.8 — Fiji — FAD
  - Cash Management and Public Financial Management — 0.4 — Nauru — FAD
  - Fundamentals of Public Financial Management — 0.1 — Fiji — FAD
  - International Reserves Management: Framework for Strategic Asset Allocation — 1.0 — Fiji — MCM
  - Pacific Central Bankers' Training on Inflation Targeting — 0.6 — Samoa
  - Pacific Fiscal Managers' Workshop — 0.6 — Cook Islands
  - Public Financial Management for CEOs — 0.4 — Tonga — FAD
  - Public Financial Management, Macro Economic Forecasting and Budgeting — 0.6 — Vanuatu — FAD
  - Regional Seminar for Financial Supervisors — 0.8 — Samoa
  - Regional Tax Managers' Workshop — 0.6 — Papua New Guinea
  - Regional Workshop for Financial Supervisors — 1.0 — Vanuatu
  - Regional Workshop on Strategic Asset Management — 0.6 — Fiji

### Other non-INS courses by department (selected totals and examples)
- Other Courses by FAD — Total: 4.4 course weeks
  - Budget Classifications and Fiscal Reporting — 0.4 — Serbia
  - Cash and Debt Management Seminar — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Cash Management Fundamentals — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Medium Term Budgeting From Concept to Reality — 0.4 — Slovenia
  - Public Accounting — 0.8 — Benin
  - Performance Budgeting Seminar — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Second Generation Treasury Reform Workshop — 1.0 — Tanzania
- Courses by LEG — Total: 15.8 course weeks
  - AML/CFT Risks in the Casino Sector — 1.0 — China
  - AML/CFT Supervisory Capacity-Building — 0.4 — Costa Rica
  - AML/CFT Training for Supervisors — 1.0 — China
  - AML/CFT Workshop — 0.8 — Ukraine
  - Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing — 1.0 — Ecuador
  - Evaluators' Training for the Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing for West Africa — 1.0 — Senegal
  - Financial Investigation and Implementation Aspects of AML/CFT — 0.6 — Romania
  - Implementing an Effective AML/CFT Workshop — 0.8 — Lesotho
  - National AML/CFT Workshop for Prosecutors — 0.8 — Colombia
  - National Seminar on AML/CFT — 1.0 — Costa Rica
  - National Workshop for Insurance Supervisors — 0.4 — Egypt
  - Supervisory Training of Central Bank on AML/CFT — 1.0 — Argentina
  - Winter Program in Taxation — 4.0 — South Africa
  - Workshop for Judges on AML/CFT — 0.6 — Benin
  - Workshop on Financial Literacy for Justice Officials — 0.4 — Argentina
  - Workshop on Money Laundering and Financial Terrorism Typologies — 1.0 — Italy
- Other Courses by MCM — Total: 6.6 course weeks
  - Banking Supervision — 1.4 — Malaysia
  - Banking Supervision — 1.0 — Egypt
  - COMESA Exchange Rate Regimes — 0.4 — Zambia
  - Debt Strategy Development — 0.2 — Ghana
  - Developing Bond Markets — 0.2 — Ghana
  - Financial Stability: Stress Testing and Crisis Management — 0.4 — Romania
  - Regional Workshop on External Debt Analysis — 0.6 — Jamaica
  - Strengthening the Financial Stability Analysis — 0.4 — United States
  - Workshop on FSAP and Financial Stability — 1.0 — China
  - Workshop on Stress Testing — 1.0 — China
- Other Courses by STA — Total: 24.4 course weeks
  - Balance of Payment and International Investment Position (IIP) — 3.0 — Portugal
  - Benchmarking and Rebasing of GDP estimates — 0.8 — Kenya
  - External Debt Statistics — 2.0 — Kenya
  - Financial Soundness Indicators — 2.0 — Russian Federation
  - IIP and External Debt — 2.0 — Ghana
  - IIP and External Debt — 2.0 — Indonesia
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Portugal
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Russian Federation
  - National Accounts Seminar — 0.4 — Brazil
  - Regional Course on Operation of International Transactions Reporting System (ITRS) for Balance of Payments Compilation — 1.0 — Republic of Azerbaijan
  - Regional Workshop on External Debt Statistics — 1.8 — Australia
  - Remittances Statistics — 1.0 — Slovenia
  - UNCTAD's Regional Workshop on Introduction to the Production of a Debt Statistical Bulleting — 0.4 — Panama
  - Workshop on Government Finance Statistics — 2.0 — Namibia

### Key numeric totals (as presented in Table A6)
- Central AFRITAC total: 1.6 course weeks
- East AFRITAC total: 8.0 course weeks
- West AFRITAC total: 13.6 course weeks
- CARTAC total: 21.4 course weeks
- METAC total: 5.4 course weeks
- PFTAC total: 7.5 course weeks
- Other Courses by FAD total: 4.4 course weeks
- Courses by LEG total: 15.8 course weeks
- Other Courses by MCM total: 6.6 course weeks
- Other Courses by STA total: 24.4 course weeks

*Source — Box 1. Development of an Integrated Database on IMF Training (excerpt).*

### Box 1. Development of an Integrated Database on IMF Training

### Box 1. Development of an Integrated Database on IMF Training

### Background and identified gaps
- Although comprehensive data on the INS training program have been maintained for many years, until recently the Fund did not have an integrated database covering all of the training it provides.
- Notable deficiencies:
  - Information on participants in courses outside the INS umbrella either were not maintained or were not readily accessible, adding imprecision to assessments of the regional distribution of training.
  - Course participants were selected without complete information on the IMF courses that candidates had previously attended.
  - Fund staff wishing to have lists of Fund-trained officials for the countries on which they were working had been limited to participants in INS-organized courses.
- Information gaps were less pronounced for the number of training activities outside INS, but:
  - No systematic approach to data collection.
  - Limited information assembled on the content, length, and target audiences of these courses.
  - No clear guidelines on how training and TA should be distinguished.

### Remedy: extension of PATS and responsibilities
- Agreed remedy (2006): extend usage of the INS Participant and Applicant Tracking System (PATS), a database specifically designed for storing and analyzing information on training activities and course participants.
- Implementation features:
  - INS and TGS designed standardized user-friendly spreadsheets and online submission forms for upload into PATS.
  - IMF training departments and RTACs assume responsibility for submitting data to INS on a timely basis.
  - System maintenance and management are the responsibility of INS and TGS.
- Resource implications:
  - For RTACs and training departments other than INS, the main resource cost is staff time to submit information on individual course participants; costs reduced if administrators already record participant information on INS-provided forms.
  - For INS, it is estimated that more than half-a-person year of time was required during 2007 to handle additional work associated with maintaining the expanded PATS database, instructing and supporting other departments, monitoring data quality, communicating with other departments and RTACs to obtain complete reporting, and responding to additional demands for information.

### 2007 IMF training: summary measures (from PATS and department/RTAC reports)
- Participant weeks of training (total and by program):
  - Total participant weeks: 12,570
  - Within INS Program: 9,434
  - Outside INS Program: 3,136
- Number of officials trained:
  - Total officials trained: 7,534
  - Within INS Program: 4,332
  - Outside INS Program: 3,202
- Breakdown by provider (participant weeks; officials trained):
  - IMF Institute: 6,108 (within INS), 0 (outside INS); Officials trained: 2,518 (within INS), 0 (outside INS)
  - Other IMF Departments: 5,756 total; 3,326 (within INS); 2,430 (outside INS). Officials trained: 4,108 total; 1,814 (within INS); 2,294 (outside INS)
  - RTACs: 706 total; 0 (within INS); 706 (outside INS). Officials trained: 809 total; 0 (within INS); 809 (outside INS)
- Memorandum item — Training delivered by, or in collaboration with, RTACs:
  - Participant weeks: 1,642 total; 217 (within INS); 1,425 (outside INS)
  - Officials trained: 1,645 total; 111 (within INS); 1,534 (outside INS)

### Distributional shares and venues (2007)
- Distribution of IMF training (participant weeks) by program/source:
  - IMF Institute: 49%
  - Other Departments Within INS Program: 26%
  - RTACs: 6%
  - Other Departments Outside INS Program: 19%
- Distribution of total IMF training among training venues (participant weeks):
  - Regional Training Centers: 40%
  - IMF Headquarters: 22%
  - RTACs: 13%
  - Distance Learning: 5%
  - Other Overseas Venues: 20%
- RTAC venues distribution (participant weeks):
  - PFTAC: 9%
  - Central AFRITAC: 2%
  - East AFRITAC: 15%
  - West AFRITAC: 27%
  - CARTAC: 32%
  - METAC: 15%
- Regional distribution of total IMF training (participant weeks):
  - Africa: 26%
  - Asia and Pacific: 26%
  - Europe: 12%
  - Middle East and Central Asia: 19%
  - Western Hemisphere: 17%
- Note: Officials from Africa and the Asia-Pacific region received the largest shares of IMF training in absolute terms; Asia-Pacific received the lowest volume relative to population size. Officials from Africa and the Middle East and Central Asia received the most training per capita; European officials received the smallest share.

### Curriculum of the INS training program (emphases and changes)
- Pedagogical focus:
  - INS courses emphasize practical applications of theory to policy analysis, with lectures supplemented by workshop exercises using real-world case studies.
- Topic-area distribution of INS program training (participant weeks, 2007):
  - Financial Programming and Policies (FPP): 34%
  - Courses by STA (statistics courses for compilers of official macroeconomic data): 23%
  - Monetary and Financial Sector Issues: 16%
  - Fiscal Issues: 14%
  - Legal Courses Including AML/CFT: 5%
  - Other Courses: 4%
  - Macroeconomic Diagnostics (INS): 3%
  - High-Level Seminars: 1%
- FPP specifics and delivery in 2007:
  - FPP accounted for 34 percent of the participant weeks of training.
  - Deliveries included: seventeen two-week offerings outside Washington; five deliveries of the flagship seven-week course at HQ; the initial delivery of a new five-week FPP with inflation targeting; four offerings of the distance learning course; and two one-week workshops.
  - Distance learning FPP structure: ten-week distance segment (approximately ten hours of training per week) followed by an intensive two-week residential segment.
  - FPP target audience: mid-level officials who provide advice on macroeconomic and financial policies or are involved in implementing policy.
  - Curriculum upgrades implemented during 2007 give greater emphasis to international capital flows, balance sheet effects, and banking systems, including designing programs for countries experiencing capital account crises.
- Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS):
  - Included to complement emphasis on formulation and implementation of adjustment programs.
  - First offering as a four-week HQ course in 2005; in 2007 a compressed two-week course for overseas delivery was offered twice, with plans to expand MDS in the future.
- Trends relative to early 2000s:
  - 2007 INS program placed less emphasis (in relative terms) on financial programming than at the beginning of the decade, small new emphasis on macroeconomic diagnostics, and roughly the same emphasis on macroeconomic statistics.
  - The proportion devoted to monetary and financial sector issues declined somewhat, though INS expanded offerings on financial markets and instruments and strengthened monetary policy and exchange rate coverage.
  - The share of training on fiscal issues almost doubled, as INS greatly increased its emphasis in response to member country demand.

_Italic: Source — Box 1. Development of an Integrated Database on IMF Training (excerpt)._

### Appendix Table A6 lists the courses delivered outside the INS program during 2007, as

### _042808 - Appendix Table A6 lists the courses delivered outside the INS program during 2007, as

### Overview
- Appendix Table A6 lists courses offered outside the INS training program during 2007, as reported to INS by other training departments and the RTACs.
- Training events with fewer than 10 participants are not included in the statistics or course lists compiled for this Report.
- Source system: PATS System, IMF Institute.
- Reporting note: As reported to INS by IMF departments and RTACs with reference to the guidelines for distinguishing between training and TA (see Box 1, note 4).

### Courses by RTAC / Regional Program (selected totals)
- Courses Involving Central AFRITAC — Total: 1.6 course weeks
  - Management and Control of Large Taxpayer Units — 0.6 course weeks — Gabon — FAD
  - Statistics and Reports Using the UNCTAD's DMFASS Software — 1.0 course weeks — Gabon — MCM
- Courses Involving East AFRITAC — Total: 8.0 course weeks
  - A Risk-Based Approach to AML/CFT Supervision — 1.0 — Tanzania — MCM
  - Banking Supervision - Intermediate Level — 2.0 — Tanzania — MCM
  - Design and Implementing Public Financial Management Reforms — 1.0 — Tanzania — FAD
  - Revenue Estimation and Forecasting — 1.8 — Kenya — FAD
  - Risk Management in Customs Administration — 1.2 — Kenya — FAD
  - VAT Design and Administration — 1.0 — Kenya — FAD
- Courses Involving West AFRITAC — Total: 13.6 course weeks
  - Country Workshop on Debt Sustainability Analysis — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Budgetary Classifications and Tracking Poverty-Reducing Spending — 0.8 — Burkina Faso
  - Regional Seminar on Central and Local Government Accounting: Training of Trainers I — 0.8 — Benin
  - Regional Seminar on Central and Local Government Accounting: Training of Trainers I — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Credit Bureaus — 0.6 — Togo
  - Regional Seminar on Customs Surveillance and Fight against Fraud — 0.6 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Debt Statistics — 0.8 — Senegal
  - Regional Seminar on Domestic Debt Management — 0.8 — Côte d'Ivoire
  - Regional Seminar on Government Finance Statistics — 1.0 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 — 2.0 — Togo
  - Regional Seminar on Implementing an accounting Framework for Microfinance Institutions — 1.0 — Côte d'Ivoire
  - Regional Seminar on Internal Control in Tax and Customs Administrations — 0.6 — Guinea
  - Regional Seminar on Legal and Regulatory Framework of Microfinance Institutions — 0.6 — Mali
  - Regional Seminar on Using Government Finance Statistics in Building Public Administration Accounts in National Accounts — 0.8 — Senegal
  - Regional Seminar on Value-Added Taxation — 0.8 — Benin
  - Regional Seminar on Taxation of Small Enterprises — 0.4 — Mauritania
- Courses Involving CARTAC — Total: 21.4 course weeks
  - 10 Hot Tax Topics — 1.0 — Barbados — FAD
  - Advanced Internal Audit — 1.0 — Cayman Islands — FAD
  - Advanced Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Lucia — FAD
  - Basic Internal Audit — 1.0 — Belize — FAD
  - Basic Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Vincent and the Grenadines — FAD
  - Financial Programming and Policies — 2.0 — Belize
  - Government Finance Statistics — 2.0 — St. Kitts and Nevis — STA
  - Introduction to Internal Audit — 1.0 — St. Kitts and Nevis — FAD
  - Macroeconomic Statistics for Economists — 1.0 — Guyana
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Barbados — STA
  - Regional Seminar on Trust Examination Skills — 0.6 — Turks and Caicos Islands
  - Revenue Forecasting Workshop — 1.4 — Barbados — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.6 — Dominica — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.4 — St. Kitts and Nevis — FAD
  - Revenue Modeling and Forecasting — 1.4 — Trinidad and Tobago — FAD
  - Workshop on Insurance Regulation and Supervision — 1.0 — British Virgin Islands — MCM
- Courses Involving METAC — Total: 5.4 course weeks
  - Consolidated Supervision Workshop — 0.8 — Lebanon
  - Government Finance Statistics — 1.0 — Jordan
  - International Investment Position Statistics — 0.6 — Egypt
  - International Transactions Reporting System Workshop — 0.4 — Syrian Arab Republic
  - International Transactions Reporting System Workshop — 0.4 — Syrian Arab Republic
  - Iraq: Issues in Tax Policy — 0.6 — Lebanon — FAD
  - Treasury Management Seminar — 1.0 — Lebanon — FAD
  - VAT Fraud and Audit Issues — 0.6 — Lebanon
- Courses Involving PFTAC — Total: 7.5 course weeks
  - Capacity Building in Debt Strategy and Sustainability Analysis — 0.8 — Fiji — FAD
  - Cash Management and Public Financial Management — 0.4 — Nauru — FAD
  - Fundamentals of Public Financial Management — 0.1 — Fiji — FAD
  - International Reserves Management: Framework for Strategic Asset Allocation — 1.0 — Fiji — MCM
  - Pacific Central Bankers' Training on Inflation Targeting — 0.6 — Samoa
  - Pacific Fiscal Managers' Workshop — 0.6 — Cook Islands
  - Public Financial Management for CEOs — 0.4 — Tonga — FAD
  - Public Financial Management, Macro Economic Forecasting and Budgeting — 0.6 — Vanuatu — FAD
  - Regional Seminar for Financial Supervisors — 0.8 — Samoa
  - Regional Tax Managers' Workshop — 0.6 — Papua New Guinea
  - Regional Workshop for Financial Supervisors — 1.0 — Vanuatu
  - Regional Workshop on Strategic Asset Management — 0.6 — Fiji

### Other non-INS courses by department (selected totals)
- Other Courses by FAD — Total: 4.4 course weeks
  - Budget Classifications and Fiscal Reporting — 0.4 — Serbia
  - Cash and Debt Management Seminar — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Cash Management Fundamentals — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Medium Term Budgeting From Concept to Reality — 0.4 — Slovenia
  - Public Accounting — 0.8 — Benin
  - Performance Budgeting Seminar — 0.6 — Slovenia
  - Second Generation Treasury Reform Workshop — 1.0 — Tanzania
- Courses by LEG — Total: 15.8 course weeks
  - AML/CFT Risks in the Casino Sector — 1.0 — China
  - AML/CFT Supervisory Capacity-Building — 0.4 — Costa Rica
  - AML/CFT Training for Supervisors — 1.0 — China
  - AML/CFT Workshop — 0.8 — Ukraine
  - Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing — 1.0 — Ecuador
  - Evaluators' Training for the Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing for West Africa — 1.0 — Senegal
  - Financial Investigation and Implementation Aspects of AML/CFT — 0.6 — Romania
  - Implementing an Effective AML/CFT Workshop — 0.8 — Lesotho
  - National AML/CFT Workshop for Prosecutors — 0.8 — Colombia
  - National Seminar on AML/CFT — 1.0 — Costa Rica
  - National Workshop for Insurance Supervisors — 0.4 — Egypt
  - Supervisory Training of Central Bank on AML/CFT — 1.0 — Argentina
  - Winter Program in Taxation — 4.0 — South Africa
  - Workshop for Judges on AML/CFT — 0.6 — Benin
  - Workshop on Financial Literacy for Justice Officials — 0.4 — Argentina
  - Workshop on Money Laundering and Financial Terrorism Typologies — 1.0 — Italy
- Other Courses by MCM — Total: 6.6 course weeks
  - Banking Supervision — 1.4 — Malaysia
  - Banking Supervision — 1.0 — Egypt
  - COMESA Exchange Rate Regimes — 0.4 — Zambia
  - Debt Strategy Development — 0.2 — Ghana
  - Developing Bond Markets — 0.2 — Ghana
  - Financial Stability: Stress Testing and Crisis Management — 0.4 — Romania
  - Regional Workshop on External Debt Analysis — 0.6 — Jamaica
  - Strengthening the Financial Stability Analysis — 0.4 — United States
  - Workshop on FSAP and Financial Stability — 1.0 — China
  - Workshop on Stress Testing — 1.0 — China
- Other Courses by STA — Total: 24.4 course weeks
  - Balance of Payment and International Investment Position (IIP) — 3.0 — Portugal
  - Benchmarking and Rebasing of GDP estimates — 0.8 — Kenya
  - External Debt Statistics — 2.0 — Kenya
  - Financial Soundness Indicators — 2.0 — Russian Federation
  - IIP and External Debt — 2.0 — Ghana
  - IIP and External Debt — 2.0 — Indonesia
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Portugal
  - Monetary and Financial Statistics — 3.0 — Russian Federation
  - National Accounts Seminar — 0.4 — Brazil
  - Regional Course on Operation of International Transactions Reporting System (ITRS) for Balance of Payments Compilation — 1.0 — Republic of Azerbaijan
  - Regional Workshop on External Debt Statistics — 1.8 — Australia
  - Remittances Statistics — 1.0 — Slovenia
  - UNCTAD's Regional Workshop on Introduction to the Production of a Debt Statistical Bulleting — 0.4 — Panama
  - Workshop on Government Finance Statistics — 2.0 — Namibia

### Key numeric totals (as presented in Table A6)
- Central AFRITAC total: 1.6 course weeks
- East AFRITAC total: 8.0 course weeks
- West AFRITAC total: 13.6 course weeks
- CARTAC total: 21.4 course weeks
- METAC total: 5.4 course weeks
- PFTAC total: 7.5 course weeks
- Other Courses by FAD total: 4.4 course weeks
- Courses by LEG total: 15.8 course weeks
- Other Courses by MCM total: 6.6 course weeks
- Other Courses by STA total: 24.4 course weeks

*Source: PATS System, IMF Institute (courses offered outside the INS training program in 2007, as reported to INS by IMF departments and RTACs).*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/websites/imf/imported-full-text-pdf/external/np/pp/eng/2008/_042808.pdf_