## Fundamentals of Debt Reporting and Monitoring

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**Canonical URL:** [Fundamentals of Debt Reporting and Monitoring](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2025/dmirsa25-35)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 25.35
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: August 18-22, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience: Officials from debt management offices, ministries of finance, and central banks who work on government debt-related issues.
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, or equivalent experience.

### Course logistics and identifiers
- Title: Fundamentals of Debt Reporting and Monitoring (DMIR)
- Session No.: SA 25.35
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Date: August 18-22, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Administrative note: Deadline passed

### Course description and pedagogy
- Purpose: Capacity building for debt managers on sound practices in debt management, debt reporting, and monitoring to support debt management operations and improve public debt transparency.
- Foundation: Uses the Revised Guidelines for Public Debt Management as the foundation for discussing key requirements and benefits of publishing comprehensive, accurate, and timely debt data.
- Emphases:
  - Regular debt reports or bulletins as mechanisms for transparency.
  - Importance of transparency for effective investor relations, market development, and sound debt management.
  - Enhancing government capacity to support public debt management through debt reporting and investor relations practices grounded in core debt management principles.

### Learning objectives and competencies
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Understand the importance of regular debt reporting in the context of the Revised Guidelines for Public Debt Management.
- Explain the cost-risk characteristics of a debt portfolio, including guaranteed debt.
- Calculate relevant debt portfolio indicators and redemption profiles.
- Describe the importance of regularly publishing debt bulletins and annual debt management reports.
- Produce debt bulletins and debt reports.

### Related IMF training note
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public; Learn more through IMF training offerings.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fpcce26-16)
- [Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/isa-ahq27-02)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2025/dmirsa25-35_