Batch 1-Strengthening the Public Financial Management Framework

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Target Audience: Officials from Government of Bangladesh registered in the FEEM Course - to be nominated by Institute of Public Finance, Dhaka.
Qualifications: Participants should have experience in fiscal policy, budgeting and/or expenditure management.

The course presents good practices in public financial management and their role in promoting fiscal discipline and efficient fiscal management.
Thematic coverage includes medium-term budget frameworks and forecasting techniques, strategic budgeting, fiscal transparency, and fiscal risk management.
Participants will work in groups on hands-on exercises.

On completing this course, participants should be able to:

Demonstrate a better understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic forecasting and fiscal policy.
Appreciate and describe the importance of fiscal institutions within a modern public finance management framework.
Summarize, describe, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Bangladesh's budgeting and public investment practices, relative to good practices.
Demonstrate an understanding of techniques used in identifying and quantifying fiscal risks, and choices in the management of fiscal risks.
Appreciate the key elements of fiscal transparency.