## Developing the Annual Borrowing Plan in Sri Lanka (MTDS)

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**Canonical URL:** [Developing the Annual Borrowing Plan in Sri Lanka (MTDS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2025/mtdssa25-52)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 25.52
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Dates: December 8-12, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English

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### 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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## 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/sa/2025/mtdssa25-52_