{ "title": "Capacity Development Work", "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/what-we-do", "canonical": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/what-we-do", "overlayPath": "/en/capacity-development/what-we-do/index.md", "summary": "Over the last decades, we have developed world-leading expertise and a repository of experience on which policies work, why they unleash growth, and how best to implement them.", "sections": [ { "heading": "Introduction to Capacity Development", "content": "- The IMF serves as a global hub for knowledge on economic and financial issues, with world-leading expertise and a repository of experience on which policies work, why they unleash growth, and how best to implement them.\n- The IMF shares knowledge with member countries through hands-on advice, training and peer-to-peer learning to help governments modernize institutions and devise economic policies that support growth, stability, and jobs creation.\n- Capacity development is part of the IMF’s core mandate — along with tracking economic developments and lending to countries that experience crises." }, { "heading": "Public Finances", "content": "- Purpose: Advise governments on raising revenues and effectively managing expenditure to enable better public services such as schools, transport, or hospitals.\n- Illustrative outcomes:\n - In Mongolia, the Ministry of Finance boosted the tax-to-GDP ratio by 5 percent from 2020 to 2024, resulting in a $1 billion increase in revenue.\n - In the Republic of Congo, capacity development is helping phase out costly and regressive fuel subsidies.\n - Cabo Verde increased tax compliance through digitalization, third-party data collection and cross-matching.\n- IMF areas of expertise in fiscal management:\n - Tax policy\n - Tax and customs administration\n - Expenditure policy\n - Budget formulation\n - Public financial management\n - Fiscal policy and institutional frameworks\n - Cash and Forecasting Analysis Tool (CFAT) | User Guide on CFAT for Fragile and Low-Income Countries\n - Global Public Finance Partnership\n - Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT)" }, { "heading": "Monetary Policy and Financial Stability", "content": "- Purpose: Work with central banks to modernize financial systems—such as exchange rate, inflation and debt policy—and banking supervision to improve financial stability and support domestic growth and international trade.\n- Illustrative outcomes:\n - Review of Sierra Leone’s financial stability framework provided the central bank with a toolbox to build banking supervision and systemic risk monitoring.\n - Nepal has enhanced its data availability and quality for monitoring financial stability.\n - In Uzbekistan, the central bank pushed an ambitious reform agenda, developing instruments to assess and monitor systemic risks and increasing the effectiveness of the central bank’s financial stability decisions.\n- IMF areas of expertise in monetary policy and financial stability:\n - Monetary and exchange rate policy\n - Central bank operations, governance, accounting or communications\n - Financial supervision and regulation\n - Systemic risk analysis\n - Financial crisis management\n - Debt management\n - Financial Sector Stability Fund (FSSF)\n - Debt Management Facility (DMF)" }, { "heading": "Legal Frameworks", "content": "- Purpose: Help countries align legal and governance frameworks to international standards to enable sound financial reforms, fight corruption and combat money laundering and terrorism financing.\n- Illustrative outcomes:\n - The IMF supported Jamaica’s overhaul of governance, leading to the country’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force’s grey list.\n - In Namibia, IMF assistance led to significant legal and institutional reforms.\n - Benin, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, and Uganda were supported in enhancing transparency and accountability, preventing conflicts of interest and corruption.\n- IMF areas of expertise in legal frameworks:\n - Financial institutions and market infrastructures\n - Central banking and macro prudential oversight\n - Tax, fiscal, and exchange systems' laws\n - Insolvency and creditor rights\n - Anti-money-laundering/combating the financing of terrorism\n - Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism" }, { "heading": "Statistics", "content": "- Purpose: Assist countries with compilation, management and reporting of macroeconomic and financial statistics to improve understanding of economies, identify vulnerabilities and risks, and attract international investors.\n- IMF areas of expertise in statistics:\n - Multisector statistical issues\n - National accounts and price statistics\n - Government finance statistics\n - Balance of payments, external debt, foreign direct investment, and international investment position\n - Monetary and financial statistics and financial soundness indicators\n - Data dissemination standards\n- Notable materials referenced:\n - 2026 Statistics Capacity Development at a Glance — Main Report\n - Data for Decisions (D4D) Phase II Program Brochure\n - Japan-IMF Bilateral Statistics Program (JSA) Brochure\n - Data for Decisions Fund (D4D)" }, { "heading": "Macroeconomic Frameworks", "content": "- Purpose: Strengthen authorities’ ability to forecast, analyze, design, and implement sound economic policies, deepen policy dialogue, and facilitate peer-to-peer learning.\n- Illustrative training and tools:\n - The Financial Programming and Policies course covers features of the main sectors of the economy, linkages between them, diagnosing macroeconomic imbalances and designing adjustment policies.\n- Macroeconomic frameworks training areas:\n - Financial sector policies\n - General macroeconomy and fiscal policy\n - Monetary, exchange rate, and capital accounts policies\n - Structural policies\n- Technical assistance and tools available on request:\n - Financial programming frameworks and model-augmented financial programming frameworks\n - Semi-structural and structural models\n - Public debt dynamics\n - Nowcasting and near-term forecasting\n - Potential output analysis\n - Natural disaster-related risks and adaptive investment effect\n - Brochure: “Forecasts in Action: Building Capacity in Macroeconomic Policy Analysis” (AR | EN | FR | ES)" } ], "bullets": [ "The IMF serves as a global hub for knowledge on economic and financial issues, with world-leading expertise and a repository of experience on which policies work, why they unleash growth, and how best to implement them.", "The IMF shares knowledge with member countries through hands-on advice, training and peer-to-peer learning to help governments modernize institutions and devise economic policies that support growth, stability, and jobs creation.", "Capacity development is part of the IMF’s core mandate — along with tracking economic developments and lending to countries that experience crises.", "Purpose: Advise governments on raising revenues and effectively managing expenditure to enable better public services such as schools, transport, or hospitals.", "Illustrative outcomes:", "IMF areas of expertise in fiscal management:", "Purpose: Work with central banks to modernize financial systems—such as exchange rate, inflation and debt policy—and banking supervision to improve financial stability and support domestic growth and international trade.", "Illustrative outcomes:", "IMF areas of expertise in monetary policy and financial stability:", "Purpose: Help countries align legal and governance frameworks to international standards to enable sound financial reforms, fight corruption and combat money laundering and terrorism financing.", "Illustrative outcomes:", "IMF areas of expertise in legal frameworks:", "Purpose: Assist countries with compilation, management and reporting of macroeconomic and financial statistics to improve understanding 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