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  "title": "Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)",
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  "summary": "Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks Training Program Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC) Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2024-03-25",
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    {
      "heading": "Program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Training Program title: Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)\n- Session No.: AT 24.04\n- Date: January 29, 2024 - February 2, 2024 (1 week)\n- Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Deadline status: Deadline passed\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese\n- Presented by: Finance and Legal Departments of the IMF"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Central bank officials serving on governance and oversight bodies.\n- Senior central bank staff responsible for:\n  - accounting,\n  - financial reporting,\n  - auditing,\n  - risk management,\n  - internal control,\n  - legal functions,\n  - reserve management operations."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications for participants",
      "content": "- University or postgraduate degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or law; or\n- Professional certifications in auditing (chartered or certified public accountants, internal auditors, information systems auditors) or finance (certified financial analysts)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and focus areas",
      "content": "- Designed to give central bank officials interactive exposure to the IMF safeguards assessment methodology.\n- Special focus on central bank governance with emphasis on:\n  - independent oversight,\n  - transparency,\n  - accountability for improving financial safeguards.\n- Provides a forum for exchange of experiences in reinforcing safeguards and governance frameworks and addressing emerging issues.\n- Instructional methods: interactive lectures, discussions, and workshops.\n- Crucial assessment areas addressed:\n  - external and internal audit mechanisms,\n  - financial reporting,\n  - the system of internal controls,\n  - management of international reserves,\n  - reporting of monetary data to the IMF.\n- Reviews concepts underlying autonomy and good governance in central bank legislation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- Assess the strengths and vulnerabilities of participants’ central banks’ safeguards and governance frameworks.\n- Identify specific steps to improve financial safeguards.\n- Use leading practices for central banks in the areas of good governance, central bank autonomy, accountability, and transparency.\n- Describe and explain the requirements of the IMF safeguards policy and the importance of implementing safeguards recommendations."
    }
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    "Session No.: AT 24.04",
    "Date: January 29, 2024 - February 2, 2024 (1 week)",
    "Location: Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Deadline status: Deadline passed",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: French Portuguese",
    "Presented by: Finance and Legal Departments of the IMF",
    "Central bank officials serving on governance and oversight bodies.",
    "Senior central bank staff responsible for:",
    "University or postgraduate degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or law; or",
    "Professional certifications in auditing (chartered or certified public accountants, internal auditors, information systems auditors) or finance (certified financial analysts).",
    "Designed to give central bank officials interactive exposure to the IMF safeguards assessment methodology.",
    "Special focus on central bank governance with emphasis on:",
    "Provides a forum for exchange of experiences in reinforcing safeguards and governance frameworks and addressing emerging issues.",
    "Instructional methods: interactive lectures, discussions, and workshops.",
    "Crucial assessment areas addressed:",
    "Reviews concepts underlying autonomy and good governance in central bank legislation.",
    "Assess the strengths and vulnerabilities of participants’ central banks’ safeguards and governance frameworks.",
    "Identify specific steps to improve financial safeguards.",
    "Use leading practices for central banks in the areas of good governance, central bank autonomy, accountability, and transparency.",
    "Describe and explain the requirements of the IMF safeguards policy and the importance of implementing safeguards recommendations."
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