Development finance and external assistance — loans, grants, and concessional flows — fund a large share of public investment in developing economies, and managing them well is a specialised discipline. This programme equips officials to plan, absorb, and account for external development finance in line with international development-effectiveness principles.
Designed for manager-level finance and aid-coordination staff, the programme reflects the practical realities of development-finance units, planning commissions, and donor-coordination offices worldwide. It is directly applicable to any context that mobilises and manages external assistance, from bilateral programmes to multilateral and blended finance.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Map the development finance landscape
- Identify sources of external assistance
- Distinguish loans, grants and concessional finance
- Apply aid modalities and instruments
- Negotiate and structure assistance
- Strengthen absorptive capacity and disbursement
- Account for external finance
- Manage donor conditions and compliance
- Coordinate debt and grant management
- Apply aid coordination and effectiveness principles
- Work within development cooperation frameworks
- Apply blended and innovative finance
- Report to development partners
- Plan for sustainability and exit
- Improve the use of external resources
- Apply emerging trends in development finance
Course Outline
- Module 1: The Development Finance Landscape
- Module 2: Sources of External Assistance
- Module 3: Loans, Grants & Concessional Finance
- Module 4: Aid Modalities & Instruments
- Module 5: Negotiating & Structuring Assistance
- Module 6: Absorptive Capacity & Disbursement
- Module 7: Accounting for External Finance
- Module 8: Donor Conditions & Compliance
- Module 9: Debt & Grant Management
- Module 10: Aid Coordination & Effectiveness
- Module 11: Development Cooperation Frameworks
- Module 12: Blended & Innovative Finance
- Module 13: Reporting to Development Partners
- Module 14: Sustainability & Exit Planning
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Development Finance
Who Should Attend
This programme is designed for development-finance officers, aid-coordination staff, and finance managers at manager level in ministries of finance and planning, donor-coordination units, and development institutions internationally.
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