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Legal and Institutional Framework for Public Debt Management (LIDM)

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Session No.: CE 26.01

Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait

Date: January 11-15, 2026 (1 week)

Delivery Method: In-person Training

Primary Language: English

Target Audience

Mid to senior-level officials, including lawyers and legal advisors, from finance ministry, treasury department, debt management offices, cash management units, and central banks.

Qualifications

Participants are expected to have a degree in law, economics or finance, or equivalent experience, as well as at least five years of working experience in the relevant area of public sector.

Course Description

This course, presented jointly by the Legal Department and the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, aims to familiarize participants with sound legal frameworks, institutional and operational arrangements for sovereigns in managing their public debt and contingent liabilities. The course focuses on the importance of effective structures and legal frameworks, that supports the formulation and implementation of sound debt management policies and practices, governance mechanisms and enhanced debt transparency.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, 

  • Participants should understand the importance of effective legal framework, institutional and operational arrangements that supports sound public debt management. In particular, participants should be able to: 
    · Describe the roles and responsibilities of government institutions in charge of debt management and the role of central banks as fiscal agents.  
  • Analyze the different forms in the design of debt management offices and the organizational structure required for debt management operations. 
  • Identify the key components of a sound public debt management legal and operational framework, including public debt management objectives, scope of public debt, authority, purposes and constraints to borrow, borrowing by public entities, contingent liabilities, monitoring, accountability arrangements and sanctions regime. 
  • Describe the legal mechanisms for coordination between public debt management and fiscal, monetary and financial policy frameworks and operations.
  • Describe the entities responsible for public debt transparency and formulate recommendations on how to strengthen the legal and institutional frameworks to enhance disclosure of public debt data and debt management operations. 
  • Describe the entities responsible for public debt transparency and formulate recommendations on how to strengthen the legal and institutional frameworks to enhance disclosure of public debt data and debt management operations.

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