Training Program

The target audience will be staff of Ministries and other organizations who are involved in the budget and public investment management.

A familiarity with the budget process and/or public investment activities.

This workshop will focus on planning and implementing an efficient, effective, and green public investment strategy. It comes as governments—both national and subnational—face staggering infrastructure needs and resource challenges in the pandemic period. The workshop will be anchored by a keynote address on the first day by Eivind Tandberg, Public Financial Management Advisor in IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, which will draw on a recently published IMF note on How to Manage Public Investment during a Postcrisis Recovery (https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Fiscal-Affairs-Department-How-To-Notes/Issues/2021/07/22/How-to-Manage-Public-Investment-during-a-Postcrisis-Recovery-460746). Other daily session will cover managing and implementing public investment between multiple entities; planning and integrating public investment management policies into the medium-term budget process; delivering and maintaining productive and durable public investment assets; and developing and integrating public investment activities into recovery and reform plans. The workshop will combine expert lectures, participant exercises, and group discussions.