Developing the Annual Borrowing Plan in Sri Lanka (MTDS)
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- Session: SA 25.52
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Dates: December 8-12, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Officials from debt management offices, ministries of finance, or central banks who deal with public debt management.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, or equivalent experience.
Course objectives
- Develop a comprehensive and data-driven Annual Borrowing Plan.
- Understand the linkage between the ABP and the Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS).
- Utilize the ABP Analytical Tool (ABPT) to formulate an Annual Borrowing Plan.
- Prepare an Indicative Issuance Calendar that is aligned with the ABP.
Course description — scope and learning outcomes
- Aim:
- Build capacity in developing an effective and comprehensive Annual Borrowing Plan (ABP) that is fully aligned with the country's Debt Management Strategy (DMS).
- Key training elements:
- End-to-end ABP development process.
- Integrating projected government cash flows, financing needs, and market conditions into a coherent ABP.
- Identifying refinancing risks in advance.
- Assessing the feasibility of financing assumptions.
- Identifying potential financing gaps.
- Supporting the development of domestic government securities markets.
- Preparation of an Indicative Issuance Calendar.
- Design and implementation of Liability Management Operations.
- Analytical tool:
- Use of the ABP Analytical Tool (ABPT), developed jointly by the IMF and the World Bank, to support the formulation of the ABP.
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