## Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)

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**Canonical URL:** [Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2024/fppce24-23)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 24.23
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Dates: October 21, 2024 - November 1, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program overview
- Training Program: Financial Programming and Policies
- Session No.: CE 24.23
- Deadline: Deadline passed
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Date: October 21, 2024 - November 1, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: Arabic
- Target Audience: Officials from ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help design and implement macroeconomic and financial policies.

### Qualifications and prerequisites
- Expected background: degree in economics or equivalent experience; proficiency in the use of spreadsheets.
- Strong recommendation: applicants have completed one of the following online courses:
  - Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1 x)
  - Financial Programming and Analysis, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x)

### Course description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.
- Covers principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary, and their interlinkages.
- Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.

### Course objectives (learning outcomes)
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Create consistent macroeconomic baseline projections on the assumption that policies do not change, while respecting accounting and behavioral links among economic variables.
- Analyze the baseline macroeconomic scenario, to understand economic and financial developments, and diagnose macroeconomic imbalances.
- Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in the baseline scenario and articulate how policy measures address them.
- Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.
- Identify further policy goals and measures that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework.

### Related IMF training note
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find current offerings.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2024/fppce24-23_