{
  "title": "Public Financial Management Legal Frameworks (LFPFM)",
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  "summary": "Public Financial Management Legal Frameworks Training Program Public Financial Management Legal Frameworks (LFPFM) This course covers institutional and legal issues related to sound and effective public financial management.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-22",
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      "heading": "Scope and topics covered",
      "content": "- The course covers institutional and legal issues related to sound and effective public financial management.\n- Selected topics include:\n  - The legal foundations and governance-related aspects of budget formulation, preparation, and execution.\n  - Fiscal rules and institutions.\n  - Public debt management and transparency.\n  - Fiscal governance of state-owned enterprises.\n  - Public investment management.\n  - Public-private partnerships.\n  - Sovereign wealth funds.\n- The course takes into account emerging legal developments relevant to public financial management, such as gender and climate change."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Lawyers from ministries of finance, line ministries, central banks, state audit bodies, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, and attorneys-general offices who deal with public financial management issues.\n  - The course is designed for heads of legal departments and senior counsels.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have five years of relevant work experience.\n  - Participants should have good knowledge of legal issues pertaining to public financial management.\n  - An advanced law degree is preferred."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Identify sound practices for addressing public financial management legal issues.\n- Identify legal design approaches that have proven effective, based on cross-jurisdictional experiences shared by presenters and fellow participants.\n- Analyze and assess domestic public financial management legislation against international good practices.\n- Develop and formulate recommendations on how to reform public financial management legislation to align it to international good practices.\n- Explain to stakeholders proposed amendments to public financial management legislation and defend those proposals in discussions and consultation procedures with stakeholders."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF training offerings (examples)",
      "content": "- Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)\n  - English | November 29, 2026 - December 3, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait\n- Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)\n  - English | February 1-12, 2027 | Blended Training | Washington, D.C., United States\n- Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)\n  - English (French, Portuguese) | January 18-29, 2027 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius"
    }
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    "The course covers institutional and legal issues related to sound and effective public financial management.",
    "Selected topics include:",
    "The course takes into account emerging legal developments relevant to public financial management, such as gender and climate change.",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Identify sound practices for addressing public financial management legal issues.",
    "Identify legal design approaches that have proven effective, based on cross-jurisdictional experiences shared by presenters and fellow participants.",
    "Analyze and assess domestic public financial management legislation against international good practices.",
    "Develop and formulate recommendations on how to reform public financial management legislation to align it to international good practices.",
    "Explain to stakeholders proposed amendments to public financial management legislation and defend those proposals in discussions and consultation procedures with stakeholders.",
    "Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)",
    "Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)",
    "Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)"
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