Training Catalog Session Details

Mid-level officials from Finance Departments with relevant knowledge of financial planning and public investment.

Priority will be given to officials engaged in financial planning or PFM reform activities.

This four-day workshop is designed to provide participants from India States with techniques and tools to identify areas for improvement in their public finance systems. It will be geared to finance department and budget staff responsible for medium-term and annual financial planning and fiscal risk management and staff responsible for considering capital spending proposals.  The workshop will help them understand how strategic budgeting, public investment management and fiscal risk management can help improve effective decision making and improve service delivery leading to more active and efficient use of financial resources.

The workshop makes use of lectures, exercises, and groupwork to ensure that participants gain practical experience that is useful for their jobs. To facilitate learning, the workshop will have hands-on sessions including preparing budget statements using tagging methodologies, and undertaking self-assessments against the IMF Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) framework to reflect how their own processes compare against best practice.

Each state government in attendance will also be asked to make a brief presentation on existing key PFM reforms and the `way forward' for their state to improve PFM practices.