Batch 1-Strengthening the Public Financial Management Framework

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Session No.: SA 25.34
Location: New Delhi, India
Date: August 18-22, 2025 (1 week)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
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.
Topical coverage includes:
- Medium-term budget frameworks and forecasting techniques
- Strategic budgeting
- Fiscal transparency
- Fiscal risk management
Participants will work in groups on hands-on exercises.

On completing the 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.