Course overview 

This course provides a framework for understanding the links between policies, budgets and development outcomes. The course introduces participants to a full range of issues associated with public expenditure: economic policy, expenditure analysis and tracking, Expenditure forecasting, efficiency and equity. Participants will be introduced to concepts in each of these areas and provided with practical tools for use in public expenditure reviews. 

Course objectives 

• Introduce participants to a full range of issues associated with public expenditure.
• Help participants examine and be able to deal with various obstacles to effective public expenditure management.
• Provide a full range of tools that are used to analyze public expenditure.
• Expose participants to issues that are pertinent to their countries and help them to use available approaches to solve them.
• Explore efficiency and equity aspects as well as cost effectiveness of public delivery.

Who should attend 

Economists, Budget Officers, Policy Analysts, Finance Officers, Heads of Departments, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialists and all those responsible for ensuring that government programs and policies achieve aggregate fiscal discipline, allocative efficiency and are operationally efficient.