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Public finance, taxation and treasury

Programme budgeting and public performance management

Moving from input-based to results-based budgeting: building programmes, objectives and indicators that hold up before parliament and before donors.

Learning objectives

  • Design a programme architecture aligned with public policy
  • Define measurable, verifiable objectives and indicators
  • Connect the annual budget with the medium-term expenditure framework
  • Produce usable performance plans and annual performance reports
  • Establish management dialogue between programme owners and operators

Programme

  1. Foundations of results-based budgeting
  2. Programme architecture: missions, programmes, actions
  3. Objectives, indicators and targets: method and pitfalls
  4. Macro-fiscal framing and MTEF
  5. Annual performance plan: drafting workshop
  6. Management dialogue, reporting and management control

Target audience

  • Directors of finance and budget
  • Programme and planning managers
  • Officers of the general finance inspectorate
  • Financial controllers and revenue officers

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Ref. FP-102 Advanced

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Mastering the full procurement chain, from needs definition to final acceptance, and legally securing every decision.

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Internal audit: from risk mapping to the audit report

Running a full internal audit assignment to international standards, and producing recommendations management actually implements.

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Internal control and anti-fraud frameworks

Designing a proportionate internal control system and detecting the fraud schemes most common in public organisations.

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