## Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy Framework

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**Canonical URL:** [Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy Framework](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2024/mtdsxol24-128)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 24.128
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: March 14, 2024 - April 18, 2024 (4 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: Spanish
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Course overview
- Title: Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy Framework (MTDSx)
- Session No.: OL 24.128
- Date: March 14, 2024 - April 18, 2024 (4 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Location: Course conducted online
- Primary Language: Spanish
- Deadline status: Deadline passed

### Qualifications and technical requirements
- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.
- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are required.
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

### Target audience
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly useful for officials from:
  - debt management offices
  - treasury departments
  - ministries of finance
  - ministries of economy
  - central banks
  - other government officials responsible for providing advice or implementing debt management policies

### Course description and scope
- Aim: Build capacity to develop a medium-term debt management strategy (MTDS), contributing to improved public debt management.
- Framework covered: Joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) MTDS framework.
- Analytical tool: Comprehensive training on the accompanying analytical tool, MTDS AT.
- Uses of MTDS AT:
  - Analyze quantitatively the cost-risk characteristics of an existing debt portfolio.
  - Analyze cost-risk trade-offs of alternative financing strategies.
- Topics in financing strategy development:
  - Composition of the existing debt portfolio.
  - Developments in key macroeconomic and market conditions.
  - Potential sources of financing.
  - Linkages with the broader medium-term macroeconomic framework, including debt sustainability.

### Course objectives
Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Describe the steps in developing an MTDS.
- Use the MTDS analytical tool to:
  - analyze and identify the costs and risks inherent in the government's existing debt portfolio.
  - formulate different market risk scenarios, adapting them to the country's specific situation.
  - identify and assess various debt financing strategies under these scenarios by comparing the cost/risk trade-offs.
- Formulate a debt management strategy that is in line with the country's debt management objectives.

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## References

- [Online 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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2024/mtdsxol24-128_