Virtual : Tackling Public Investment in Challenging Times

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Target audience: staff of Ministries and other organizations who are involved in the budget and public investment management.
Qualifications: A familiarity with the budget process and/or public investment activities.

Focus: planning and implementing an efficient, effective, and green public investment strategy.
Context: governments—both national and subnational—face staggering infrastructure needs and resource challenges in the pandemic period.
Keynote address: Eivind Tandberg, Public Financial Management Advisor in IMF Fiscal Affairs Department.
The keynote will draw on a recently published IMF note: 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).
Daily sessions 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;
- developing and integrating public investment activities into recovery and reform plans.
Pedagogy: expert lectures, participant exercises, and group discussions.

Understand how to maximize public investment efficiency using sound budget allocation and project implementation practices.
Improve knowledge on the linkages of medium term policy with budget preparation, implementation of infrastructure, and planning for operationalizing infrastructure.
Understand how to incorporate climate change considerations into project selection.
Realize the benefits of coordinating public investment efforts between governmental entities.

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