Browse free PFM online courses offered by international organizations.
These online courses provide an in-depth learning experience that covers a wide range of PFM-related topics, ranging from performance-based budgeting to the core function of the treasury.
| Organization | Theme | Course | Description | Link |
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| World Bank | Budget | Parliaments and the Budget (Self-paced) | Budgets affect all of us and are the most important economic policy tool of a government, detailing the priorities of a nation. In this course, we learn how legislatures ensure that the budget optimally matches a nation’s needs with available resources. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Parliaments and the Budget II (Self-paced) | The purpose of this course is to develop better understanding of Parliament’s role in financial oversight. It seeks to identify good practices across all parliamentary systems and builds on the introductory content of the “The Role of Parliament and the Budget Process #1” Course by providing more detailed content relating to Parliament and PFM as well as practical examples and case studies from all regions. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Parliamentary Budget Office (Self-paced) | The purpose of this training module is to build on the Parliament and the Budget module by examining in detail the work of independent, objective, nonpartisan Parliamentary Budget Offices (PBO) and their contribution to the budget process. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Basics of Public Financial Management(Self-paced) | This e-Learning course on the basics of public financial management provides a quick introduction to PFM, explains the budget cycle, describes how accounting and financial reporting is done in the public sector, clarifies the concepts of internal controls and differentiates it from an internal audit, and explains how governments are audited. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Reproductive Health: From Advocacy to Action (Self-paced) | The goal of the course is to equip participants with the specific knowledge and tools needed in their work on reproductive health in countries where health system strengthening (HSS), budget support for health programs and poverty-reduction strategies are being implemented. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget, Performance-Based Budgeting, Accountability | Municipal Finances - A Learning Program for Local Governments (Self-paced) | From Detroit to Lahore, most cities around the world are facing financing challenges. Bankruptcy, budget deficits, unmaintained infrastructure, declining quality of services and increasing urban poverty are unfortunately too common headlines. At the same time, the world is becoming more complex and municipal officials are not only dealing with the day to day business which comes with running a city but, they also have to increasingly address issues of social inclusion, local economic development, job creation, crime and violence, climate change, floods, natural and man-made disasters as well as an increasing number of urban dwellers. Against this backdrop, there is both a sense of urgency and a huge opportunity for change. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget, Performance-Based Budgeting, Fiscal transparency | SDGs In Action: Integrating the SDGs into National Budgets | This Bite+ shines light on a key area in need of attention - how to translate the SDGs into national budgets? It explores how countries may cost out gaps to achieve the SDGs and seek to fill those gaps by mobilizing resources and budgeting for SDG activities to be translated into tangible policy and implementation at the country level. Panelists comprising of country leaders and policy makers, discuss avenues to tackle fiscal and planning challenges to budget for, and build, successful outcomes for the SDGs. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget, Public Investment Management | Infrastructure Governance Round Table - Getting Infrastructure Right: A Call To Action | Learn how the quality of public investment governance is significantly linked to positive growth outcomes. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Citizens Budget | This webinar drew on the experiences of governments that have produced citizen’s budgets. The session provided step-by-step guidance for producing a citizen’s budget and included suggestions on how to meet challenges that often arise as a government seeks to do this. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Promoting Effective use of Data as Catalyst of Open Budgets | Today the main challenge is how to design interventions around budget data that aim for broader support of open budgets. This webinar presented approaches that promote data availability, in parallel with building critical capacity for broader audiences to effectively use such data to improve budget performance. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group | The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group co-anchor, presents an analysis on the commitments and implementation of fiscal transparency actions in 43 OGP countries and discusses the opportunities for public participation in fiscal policy and budget making. GIFT is a multi-stakeholder action network working to advance and institutionalize global norms and significant improvements on fiscal transparency and participation in countries around the world. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Échange de connaissances : Nigéria | Retrouvez-nous pour le deuxième rendez-vous de la série d’échanges de connaissances des points focaux du PCH. Cette rencontre vous offre l’occasion de vous inspirer des initiatives novatrices mises en œuvre par vos pairs du Nigéria pour susciter l’adhésion à une vision nationale du capital humain dans l’ensemble des 36 États fédéraux. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Mizaniatouna: Opening Tunisia’s Budget to All | In response to calls for transparency and access to information, the Tunisia Ministry of Finance is launching a new portal in coordination with the World Bank Group to increase the transparency of Tunisia’s public spending to all citizens. “Mizaniatouna” or “Our budget," is a single point of entry for all financial information generated by the Tunisian government since 2008. The portal is available in French and Arabic with text and graphs to give citizens access to all public spending. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | MizaniAtouna, les Données Budgétaires Accessibles à Tous en Tunisie | En réponse à un appel pour plus de transparence et un meilleur accès à l’information, le Ministère des Finances tunisien a lancé, en collaboration avec la Banque Mondiale, un nouveau portail afin de faciliter l’accès de tous les citoyens aux dépenses publiques. « Mizaniatouna » ou « notre budget » est un point d’accès unique à toute l’information financière depuis 2008. Le portail, disponible en français et en arabe, comprend données et éléments graphiques et permet à la population d’avoir accès à toutes les dépenses publiques. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | A Simple Lane Improves the Health of Millions of Latin Americans | A transportation system designed so that users have to walk around 15 minutes per trip. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | President Jim Kim Announces Financing for Nepal Earthquake Recovery | The World Bank Group will always stand with the people of Nepal, especially in their time of need. We're helping the country face its next challenge—moving beyond the emergency to start building back better. Subject to board approval, the WBG will provide $200 million to rebuild homes and $100 million in budget support to strengthen the financial sector. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Why We Need the Explorers | In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs — from space probes to the LHC — are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | What We Learned from Teetering on the Fiscal Cliff | At the end of 2012, the US political system was headed for the "fiscal cliff" — a budget impasse that could only be solved with bipartisan agreement. Adam Davidson, cohost of "Planet Money," shares surprising data on how bipartisan we truly are — and hints at the disconnect between representatives and the people they represent. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | News Highlights: Chad Reaches HIPC Initiative Completion | Chad is the 36th country to reach the completion point under the HIPC Initiative Kordjé Bedoumra, Chad’s Minister of Finance and Budget, explains why reaching the HIPC completion point is such an important milestone for his country. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Snapshot of Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes in Lebanon based on Household Budget Survey 2011-2012 : Central Administration for Statistics and World Bank | This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for Statistics (CAS) with technical assistance from the World Bank. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | PPIAF Assistance in Egypt | As in many developing countries, the government of Egypt faces the challenging task of reconciling budget deficits with a burgeoning need for investment to improve and expand the provision of infrastructure services. In response, Egypt is aiming to leverage private investment to fill public financing gaps that have caused frequent power outages and gridlocked roads, and inhibited economic growth and development. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Croatia - Spending Review Pilot Process and Lessons Learnt | This note highlights a number of lessons and challenges from Croatia’s experience, which need to be considered to strengthen budget management in the future. Croatia has recently piloted a Spending Review (SR) as a mechanism to identify options for budgetary savings that can be realized either by improving efficiency or by reducing ineffective or low-priority expenditures. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | The Challenge of Subnational Revenue Mobilization : the Case of Edo State in Nigeria | Nigeria operates a decentralized system of government consisting of three tiers of government - a federal government, 36 state governments and 774 local governments. The country’s fiscal structure is also decentralized; with revenue-raising and expenditure functions assigned to the different tiers of government. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | The Green Growth Movement in the Republic of Korea : Option or Necessity? | The government established a legal framework on low carbon and green growth, set up a governance structure to implement green growth initiatives systematically, and established fiscal policies and budget resources to support the initiatives firmly. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Empowering Communities: The Local Initiatives Support Program in Russia | Prosperity from economic growth is not shared evenly among Russia’s population and regions. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Spotlight on International Funders’ Commitments to Financial Inclusion | This brief analyzes trends in the international funding landscape based on consultative group to assist the poor (CGAP) research. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Kurdistan Regional Government : Economic and Social Impact Assessment of the Syrian Conflict and ISIS Insurgency | This quick note summarizes a report with the same title on the impact and stabilization costs of the influx of refugees and IDPs. Impact refers to the immediate economic and fiscal effects on the KRI economy and budget. Stabilization cost refers to the additional spending needed to restore the welfare of KRI residents. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Who Wins and Who Loses from Staple Food Price Spikes? Welfare Implications for Mozambique | How can Mozambique reduce food prices volatility and its household welfare effects? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Budget | Development Policy Operations in Small Pacific Island Countries: What Works? | Development policy operations (DPOs) provide quick-disbursing general budget support against a program of critical structural reforms in areas of sectoral or overall economic policy. DPOs have become a central platform of the World Bank’s engagement with small Pacific island countries (PICs). | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Performance-Based Budgeting | Changing the Conversation on Development Finance | The World Bank Group brought together development organizations, governments, the private sector and civil society to discuss what it will take to finance development in a post-2015 world. The discussion showcased the latest thinking on domestic resource mobilization, private sector leverage, and development financing mechanisms, solutions and initiatives that go beyond filling financing gaps. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Treasury | IBRD Flexible Loan (IFL) | Curious about how World Bank products can help finance your (client's) projects? This self-paced Introduction to World Bank Financial Products course familiarizes operational staff about WB financial products such as loans, credits, guarantees, financial and commodity risk management products, contingent credit lines, and insurance/reinsurance for disasters to help clients find the most suitable financing sources and financial terms for projects. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Treasury | Financial Risk Management Products | This self-paced course focuses on products that help mitigate financial risks including risks for currency, commodity price volatility, liquidity – contingent credit lines and guarantees - and the fiscal impact weather-related events. This course will help task team leaders with loan negotiations and improve operational staff’s ability to engage with borrowers on finding the most suitable solution for their clients. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Treasury | Disaster Risk Financing | This course focuses on financial products available to help governments, sub-national governments and state-owned enterprises manage risks related to natural disasters and the weather. The products include contingent financing instruments, insurance/re-insurance, catastrophe bonds, whether derivatives and more. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Treasury, Public Investment Management | Value for Money: Identifying/Screening PPP Proposals in South Africa | South Africa’s approach to infrastructure proposal appraisal is to assess the greatest value for money. This is not merely an account of project costs, but the value that the proposal will have for the economic and social activities it supports, directly and indirectly. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Basics of Public Financial Management (Self-paced) | This e-Learning course on the basics of public financial management provides a quick introduction to PFM, explains the budget cycle, describes how accounting and financial reporting is done in the public sector, clarifies the concepts of internal controls and differentiates it from an internal audit, and explains how governments are audited. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Public Finance Management Reform: Case Study Slovakia (Self-paced) | The e-course will complement existing on-the-ground initiatives by the Ministry of Finance of Slovakia as a donor, as well as e-content on PFM currently available via OLC. The overall objective of the course is to present the complex nature of the PFM reform in a practical way. |
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| World Bank | Public Finance Management | E-Procurement Learning (Self-Paced) | World Bank E-Procurement learning course to design and implement solutions in a more effective and economical way. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Induction to Fragile Environment Financial Management (Self-Paced) | The course outlines some key Financial Management issues raised by fragile and conflict-affected states which are among the most important faced by the international community as a whole. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Parliaments and the Budget II (Self-paced) | The purpose of this course is to develop better understanding of Parliament’s role in financial oversight. It seeks to identify good practices across all parliamentary systems and builds on the introductory content of the “The Role of Parliament and the Budget Process #1” Course by providing more detailed content relating to Parliament and PFM as well as practical examples and case studies from all regions. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | More Efficient Public Expenditure for Strong and Inclusive Growth | The critical challenge ahead for Cambodia is to ensure sustained high growth without social exclusion. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Unlocking Investment and Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) | This course assesses how to unlock investment and finance of all kinds – international, domestic, public and private - including the $100 trillion in assets under management by institutional investors globally, to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Progress to date will be reviewed and participants will be invited to discuss additional actions needed to accelerate investments and finance in EMDEs. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | SDGs In Action: Integrating the SDGs into National Budgets | This Bite+ shines light on a key area in need of attention - how to translate the SDGs into national budgets? It explores how countries may cost out gaps to achieve the SDGs and seek to fill those gaps by mobilizing resources and budgeting for SDG activities to be translated into tangible policy and implementation at the country level. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management, Fiscal Transparency | Infrastructure Governance Round Table - Getting Infrastructure Right: A Call To Action | Learn how the quality of public investment governance is significantly linked to positive growth outcomes. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Global Economic Prospects: Heightened Tensions, Subdued Investment | This edition of Global Economic Prospects includes analytical essays on the benefits and risks of government borrowing, recent investment weakness in EMDEs, the pass-through of currency depreciations to inflation, and the evolution of growth in low-income countries (LICs). | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Public-Private Partnerships (PPP): How can PPPs help deliver better services? | Current practices and perspectives on PPPs from officials, practitioners, and other PPP experts around the world. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Metropolitan Public Finance: An Overview | Session on Metropolitan public finance general principles. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management, Pubic Investment Management | Metropolitan Public Finance: The Case of Mumbai | The presentation begins by providing a backdrop of the status and nature of urbanization in India. It then underlines the unique position of the Mumbai region as an economic and financial powerhouse in Maharashtra’s and India’s economy. In particular, it points to the substantial contribution by Mumbai to the State and Central governments’ revenues, by laying the foundation to the “goose that lays the golden egg” argument. Thus, it argues for greater investment by higher levels of governments for infrastructure provision in the region. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | The Use of Islamic Debt in Energy Sector Projects | In this webinar, we will discuss the case of a typical IPP project where both conventional and Islamic banks are present as lenders. The webinar will discuss the Ijara (leasing) mode of financing, as this is the predominant mode of financing used by Islamic banks for funding IPP projects. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs | This webinar will focus on introducing the concept of Islamic finance within countries looking for infrastructure finance and how they can better use Sharia-compliant instruments to mobilize private investment in infrastructure through PPPs. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | PPPs at the Sub-National Level: Trends, Practices, Challenges, and Implications | This webinar will discuss the trends, practices, challenges, and implications of the County PPP Regulations with a focus on clarifying roles at the national and subnational levels. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management, Fiscal Transparency | AFRONOMICS: Rwanda tops Africa in CPIA ratings | In this Afronomics, Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region, Albert Zeufack, speaks with report author, Punam Chuhan-Pole about policy improvements; policy declines and the African countries that are global examples of effective policy reform that enables positive growth and development. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management, Fiscal Transparency | AFRONOMICS: Part 1: Africas Pulse Spring Edition | What is the debt composition in African Countries, and what needs to be done to mitigate the fiscal deficit? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | AFRONOMICS: Africa’s Pulse Spring Edition Part 2: Access to Energy in Africa | How can technology and innovation help to address the access to energy in African countries? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Pabsylive: Procuring the Future | The World Bank is adopting a new policy governing procurement in projects financed by the Bank. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Making Property Tax Work in Metropolitan Cities - Podcast | This presentation gives an overview of the issues around land use. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Promoting Better Public Finance Management Through Indonesia's Youth | Strong public finance management is one of the foundations of good governance. An essay competition raised awareness among Indonesia’s youth to the importance of tax revenue management. When citizens are involved and informed, they can help ensure their revenue is spent properly and helps improve their country’s basic services. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Vietnam: Monitoring Public Investment at the Grassroots Level | Community supervision boards in many provinces in Vietnam play an important role monitoring public investment projects at the commune level. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Digital Public Procurement Transforms Bangladesh | Bangladesh launched its electronic government procurement portal (e-GP) in 2011 to allocate public funds more effectively and transparently, and improve ways to do business with the private sector. Since August 2015, more than 28,000 tenders valued at about $3 billion have been processed online and time required to process a contract has decreased substantially. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | What is Results-Based Financing? | Learn how the results-based financing mechanism can improve health outcomes by emphasizing performance. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | A Snapshot: Who Sponsors Infrastructure Projects? | This report looks at data from state-owned enterprise and public projects and compares it to data on private participation in infrastructure. The result is a snapshot that shows the relative proportion of investment commitments made by the public, SOE, and private sectors to infrastructure projects at global, regional, and sectoral levels in 2017. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | An Overview: Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 | Learn how international trading and financial systems must adapt to advance the SDGs and promote fair globalization. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Capital Expenditures : Making Public Investment Work for Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth in Moldova | How can public investment work for competitiveness and inclusive growth in Moldova? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Public Procurement Reform in Morocco | Morocco is set to improve its procurement system and optimize the performance of its public investments. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Overview of Infrastructure Investment Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by 2030 | Investing in infrastructure is not enough; maintaining it matters. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Partial Credit Guarantees for Sub-National Transactions | A partial credit risk guarantee (PCG) provides comprehensive cover to sub-national governments’ (SNGs) lenders in the event the SNG fails to make debt service payments on their debt, or when any default occurs, for any reason. A PCG provides direct or indirect debt service payment coverage for an SNG commercial bank loan or domestic bond issue. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Innovative Procurement Practices in Iraq's Social Safety Net Program | Well-functioning institutions, critical to reducing poverty, are often absent in fragile and conflict-affected states. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Finance Management | Cambodia Policy Note: Public Financial Management Reform | These notes explain the implications of public financial management reform across a number of sectors. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | World Bank Pension Core Course. The Design and Implementation of Old Age Income Protection Programs | This two-week "core course" aims to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and practical issues involved in the design and implementation of pension and social security programs and linkages to Social Protection systems. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Unified Framework for Feasibility Assessment: Identifying/Screening Projects for PPP Implementation in the Republic of Korea | The Republic of Korea has a long history of PPP, legally codified in 1994 and 1999. Korea’s PPP screening process is administered by the Korean Development Institute’s Public and Private Investment Management Center, which subjects potential projects to a prefeasibility survey. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Vietnam: Monitoring Public Investment at the Grassroots Level | Community supervision boards in many provinces in Vietnam play an important role monitoring public investment projects at the commune level. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Jordan - Developing an Efficient Public Investment Management System | In order to achieve accelerated, export-led growth, Jordan needs to improve its primary infrastructure and the efficiency and effectiveness of public investments. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Infographic: Private Participation in Municipal Solid Waste Infrastructure (MSW) | Learn how private investment commitments within the MSW sector vary among developing economies. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Capital Expenditures : Making Public Investment Work for Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth in Moldova | How can public investment work for competitiveness and inclusive growth in Moldova? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | Overview of Infrastructure Investment Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by 2030 | Investing in infrastructure is not enough; maintaining it matters. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Public Investment Management | An Overview: Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 | Learn how international trading and financial systems must adapt to advance the SDGs and promote fair globalization. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management, Cash Management, Accountability | Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) (Facilitated) | This e-learning course will provide participants with knowledge on application of the revised DeMPA (2015) tool to assess comprehensive debt management functions in their countries. The DeMPA tool provides a set of indicators for comprehensively assessing debt management performance in developing countries. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management, 1.1. Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) Framework | Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) Framework | MTDS is primarily focused on determining the appropriate composition of the debt portfolio, taking into account macroeconomic indicators and market environment. MTDS is useful for illustrating government’s cost and risk tradeoffs associated with different debt management strategies and for managing the risk exposure embedded in a debt portfolio, in particular the potential variation in debt servicing costs and its budgetary impact. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Debt Management in a Dynamic World: Coping with Capital Flows and Hidden Risks | Forum for discussion of a policy-relevant agenda on debt management, to discuss current challenges faced by developing countries with respect to debt management, and to foster knowledge exchange among participants | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Cash Management | Nobel Prize Winner Abhijit Banerjee: Putting Evidence into Action: Tested ideas in Human Development | Experiments to better understand poverty and its direct and multidimensional link to human capital | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management, Public Investment Management | Global Economic Prospects: Heightened Tensions, Subdued Investment | This edition of Global Economic Prospects includes analytical essays on the benefits and risks of government borrowing, recent investment weakness in EMDEs, the pass-through of currency depreciations to inflation, and the evolution of growth in low-income countries (LICs). | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Cash Management | Tackling Undernutrition in Sri Lanka's Plantations | In Sri Lanka, undernutrition among mothers and children under-five, especially those living on plantations, is all too prevalent. Anemia is widespread among pregnant mothers and 36 percent of young children are either too short or underweight for their age. While progress has been made in improving overall health and socio-economic indicators in plantations, a new report recommends a more strategic approach to ensure mothers and their children get the nutrition they need to live healthy lives and realize their potential. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | The Use of Islamic Debt in Social Sector Projects | In this webinar, we will discuss the case of a hospital PPP project where both conventional and Islamic banks are present as lenders. The case will present the transaction structure and the documentation involved in the structure that put together these two types of lenders in one transaction, focusing on the Istisna’a modes of financing. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | The Use of Islamic Debt in Energy Sector Projects | In this webinar, we will discuss the case of a typical IPP project where both conventional and Islamic banks are present as lenders. The case will present the transaction structure and the documentation involved in the structure that put together these two types of lenders in one transaction. While presenting the transaction structure, this webinar will also discuss the case of security sharing, treatment of some conventional fees by the Islamic banks, lenders’ decision-making processes, and the specifics of mobilizing Islamic finance. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Framework for Managing Fiscal Commitments and Contingent Liabilities for PPPs in Kenya | This webinar will discuss Kenya’s framework for managing fiscal commitments and contingent liabilities, its implementation, and its importance to Kenya’s PPP program. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management, Public Investment Management | Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs | This webinar will focus on introducing the concept of Islamic finance within countries looking for infrastructure finance and how they can better use Sharia-compliant instruments to mobilize private investment in infrastructure through PPPs. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Financing and Funding Kenyan PPPs – Emerging Trends and Issues | This webinar will discuss issues and trends in financing and funding PPPs in Kenya. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | AFRONOMICS: Part 1: Africas Pulse Spring Edition | What is the debt composition in African Countries, and what needs to be done to mitigate the fiscal deficit? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management, Public Finance Management | Public Finance Management Reform: Case Study Slovakia (Self-paced) | The e-course will complement existing on-the-ground initiatives by the Ministry of Finance of Slovakia as a donor, as well as e-content on PFM currently available via OLC. The overall objective of the course is to present the complex nature of the PFM reform in a practical way. The knowledge embedded in the course can serve the participants as a basis for developing their own PFM reform programs, or simply learning from the experience of other countries as they debate/evaluate PFM in their own countries. Upon completion of the course, the participants should have a solid understanding of reform process such as those | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) (Self-paced) | The DeMPA tool – the subject of this course - provides a comprehensive set of indicators for assessing debt management performance that are based on sound practices in government debt management. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Enabling Environment for Sub National Government Debt | The national government’s institutions and regulations govern sub-national governments’ borrowing. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | An Overview: Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 | Learn how international trading and financial systems must adapt to advance the SDGs and promote fair globalization. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Customizing the Debt Repayment Schedule to Improve Fiscal Sustainability in Brazil | Rio Grande do Sul (RGS) is the fourth largest state economy in Brazil; fifth largest in population. Despite its relatively favorable social and economic position in the country, continuous fiscal deficits and excessive indebtedness were hampering the state’s ability to promote economic growth. RGS was one of the few states in Brazil with debt service exceeding the limit (15%) set by the country’s Fiscal Responsibility Law (FRL). This affected social service efficiency and reach, and RGS’s quality of life indicators were receding relative to the rest of Brazil. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Partial Credit Guarantees for Sub-National Transactions | A partial credit risk guarantee (PCG) provides comprehensive cover to sub-national governments’ (SNGs) lenders in the event the SNG fails to make debt service payments on their debt, or when any default occurs, for any reason. A PCG provides direct or indirect debt service payment coverage for an SNG commercial bank loan or domestic bond issue. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Helping Morocco Mitigate Currency Risk on Liabilities Owed to a Third Party | Morocco has made significant economic headway since the 1990s, in part the result of sound macroeconomic policies. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | Local Currency Financing in Uruguay | Uruguay has made substantial progress in achieving macroeconomic stability since the economic crisis of 2002. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Debt Management | PPIAF Helps Kampala Capital City Authority Improve its Creditworthiness | Since 2012, PPIAF’s Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA) program has been working with the reform minded administration of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to: enhance the city’s own source revenues; and, improve its financial management, accounting policies and procedures, and debt management practices. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Fiscal Transparency | Debt Management in a Dynamic World: Coping with Capital Flows and Hidden Risks | Forum for discussion of a policy-relevant agenda on debt management, to discuss current challenges faced by developing countries with respect to debt management, and to foster knowledge exchange among participants | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Fiscal Transparency | OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group | The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, OGP Fiscal Openness Working Group co-anchor, presents an analysis on the commitments and implementation of fiscal transparency actions in 43 OGP countries and discusses the opportunities for public participation in fiscal policy and budget making. GIFT is a multi-stakeholder action network working to advance and institutionalize global norms and significant improvements on fiscal transparency and participation in countries around the world. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Fiscal Transparency | Introducing the Fiscal Openness Working Group | This webinar aimed to further the understanding of fiscal transparency issues and activities in the context of the Open Government Partnership. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Fiscal Transparency | The Role, Impact, and Consequences of Litigation in Kenyan PPPs | This webinar will discuss the role, impact and consequences of litigation in Kenyan PPPs in the light of the recently finalized Petition Committee Guidelines. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Fiscal Transparency | The Challenge of Subnational Revenue Mobilization : the Case of Edo State in Nigeria | Nigeria operates a decentralized system of government consisting of three tiers of government - a federal government, 36 state governments and 774 local governments. The country’s fiscal structure is also decentralized; with revenue-raising and expenditure functions assigned to the different tiers of government. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Introduction to Social Accountability (Self-paced) | Social accountability is an important component of an overall good governance framework. This three-module course introduces participants to the concept of social accountability and provides the skills necessary to design effective, context-specific initiatives at the local level. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Results Based Financing in Health (Self-paced) | Results Based Financing approaches can strengthen core health systems by improving accountability, value, and outcomes. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability, Public Financial Management | Engaging Citizens in the Audit Process: A New Frontier in Public Financial Management (Self-Paced) | The course offers tools and mechanisms to advance citizen engagement in the audit process towards enhancing public oversight. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Parliaments in Fragile States (Self-paced) | This course creates an overview of those factors most prevalent in regions prone to conflict and looks closely at the relationship between democratic governance, development, poverty and conflict. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Parliamentary Committees (Self-paced) | This course is intended primarily for parliamentary staff, but will benefit Members of Parliament (MPs) and individuals interested in learning more about the core functions of parliaments. The module on parliamentary committees forms part of the self-paced learning program on professional development for parliamentary staff. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Open Data for Data Producers (Self-Paced) | The “Open Data for Data Producers” e-learning course is designed to provide a broad overview of Open Data principles and best practices from the standpoint of a data producer, and empower data managers and technical staff with the background and skills to contribute to the Open Data community. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | School Autonomy and Accountability (SAA) | Course about what matters in school autonomy and accountability. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Engaging Citizens: A Game Changer for Development? | This MOOC explores citizen engagement and how it can be used for development impact. We begin by exploring the definitions and history of citizen engagement, as well as related concepts such as transparency, accountability, responsiveness and inclusiveness. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Security Focal Point: Framework of Accountability | These online modules provides support and resources for Security Focal Points with the intent to build confidence, knowledge and skills in a role that many have taken on as an extra duty. The content of these modules is based on the Directives and Standard Operating Procedures in use by the World Bank Group. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Freedom of Information Acts and Disclosure in Public-Private Partnerships | This webinar will discuss ways to ensure transparency and accountability in PPPs, including the potential of FoI laws in improving disclosure policies. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Crowd Sourcing Citizens Inputs: Community Mapping and Participatory Planning | This webinar will share experiences of the community mapping efforts in Dar es Salaam. Speakers will discuss how citizens can use low cost technology to create new opportunities for accountability, enable data-driven government policy making and create a more inclusive and open development process. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Asset Disclosure | This webinar also featured Georgia’s Asset Declaration system and shared experience on the challenges and lessons learned with the management of this transparency and accountability mechanism. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Metropolitan Public Finance: An Overview | this session will discuss, few general principles to which many countries could usefully pay more attention such as thinking through carefully how best to balance central and local financial and fiscal responsibilities and accountability, establishing more appropriate metropolitan governance structures, and providing growing metropolitan areas with better ways to raise the funds they need to provide infrastructure and services. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Improving City Management through Data and Analytics | This webinar will showcase examples of how city governments leverage data and analytics to more efficiently deliver services, engage citizens and inform public policy. It will discuss implications to open data and innovation, citizen engagement, and accountability, the roles of public sector, citizen, NGOs and private sector, as well as issues of institutional coordination, capacity and resources. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Grant Financing of Metropolitan Areas: Principles and Practices | Grant-financing regimes of metropolitan areas and their role in economic outcomes. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Public Finance Strategies to Unlock Finance and Investment in EMDEs | In this bite+, we will learn about how countries are using scarce international public finance catalytically while also mobilizing more resources domestically to fund their own development. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | ICT platform in the DRC "Allo, Ecole!" | Increasingly ubiquitous even in fragile countries, mobile phones can be a cost-effective means to enhance oversight over education sector. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Engaging Citizens: A Game Changer for Development? | Putting citizens at the center of governance can advance the relationship between the government and the governed. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | RMES TOGETHER 2018 | RMES Together 2018 will challenge you to think beyond the technical and financial aspects of operations and start projects off with a results-oriented design based on a solid theory of change and lessons learned. In this Bite + you'll join panelist for the Opening Session, hear from Featured Speaker, Michael Green, and listen to fast and fun ignite-style presentations from teams inside and outside the WBG. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | GPSA Knowledge Platform | The GPSA Knowledge Platform aims to support learning, networking and knowledge exchange | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | GOXI | A space to share, learn and connect for action towards greater accountability and, in turn, better development outcomes of extractive industries | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Instituting a Framework for Quality with Web-based Reporting Systems in Indonesia | How web-based reporting improves accountability for infrastructure projects | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Instituting a Framework for Quality with Independent Verification Agents in Indonesia | How RBF helped improve accountability for Indonesian infrastructure projects | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | What is the World Bank Inspection Panel? | What is the Inspection Panel? The video is an overview of the World Bank Inspection Panel’s history, composition, role and process. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | New Digital Scorecard Shows Results and Performance Indicators of the World Bank Group | An overview of the new digital World Bank Group Corporate Scorecard, measuring results in long-term development outcomes, countries, and operational/organizational effectiveness, along with ties to the Sustainable Development Goals. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | STEP: Helping Clients Procure Better and Faster to Achieve Results | STEP is an online system to help the World Bank and borrowers plan and track procurement activities under Bank-financed projects. It transforms data into knowledge, speeds up the procurement process, and improves accountability and transparency – driving results for development. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Risk-Based Regulation | Risk-Based Regulation (RBR) achieves public policy objectives by targeting activities that pose the highest risk to the public well-being, and in turn lowers burdens for a variety of lower-risk sectors and firms. Lowering burdens improves compliance and allows firms to benefit from a more level playing field. By directing government resources towards the highest-risk areas, risk-based approaches also make the most of limited public resources. Well-functioning RBR systems further improve accountability by enhancing transparency and predictability of requirements in given sectors and as applied to different firms. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Social Accountability Relationships Assessment Tool: A Tool to Rapidly Identify and Assess Downward Accountability Relationships in Bank-Financed Projects | Enabling strong accountability relationships between government agencies and service providers—on the one hand—and citizens and service users—on the other—is critical to good governance and development. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Not Just a Case for Business: SDG Partnerships with Accountability, Oversight and Profit | Recent guest articles on the SDG Knowledge Hub present a range of perspectives about the private sector’s role in advancing the Global Goals. Some commentators focus on business’ potential for driving SDG implementation and provide specific advice for realizing it. Others express concern about the shifting relationship between governments and the private sector, and about the nature of business’ engagement at the UN. Meanwhile, the UN is working to establish guidance for partnerships to help implement the 2030 Agenda. This brief reviews the underlying arguments in the featured commentaries and relevant UN reform efforts that are underway. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Disability Inclusion and Accountability Framework | The main objective of this Executive Summary’s mentioned Disability Inclusion and Accountability Framework is to support the mainstreaming of disability in World Bank activities. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Collecting High-Frequency Data Using Mobile Phones : Do Timely Data Lead To Accountability? | This note discusses lessons learned and offers suggestions for future applications of mobile phone surveys in developing countries, such as those planned for the World Bank’s “Listening to Africa” initiative. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Steering Dubai's Education Reform through Incentive and Accountability Drivers | As Dubai has grown over the last two decades, the demand for private education has grown with it. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Ensuring results and accountability through verification | This note discusses the verification process, and presents projects in Indonesia and Kenya that are making innovative use of the verification mechanism. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Development Policy Operations in Small Pacific Island Countries : What Works? | Development policy operations (DPOs) provide quick-disbursing general budget support against a program of critical structural reforms in areas of sectoral or overall economic policy. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Learning-by-Doing Approach to Active Urban Citizenship in Uganda | The purpose of this booklet is to introduce SDI’s Learning-by-Doing Approach. To do so it will focus on the approach’s application in Uganda, where the government and donor partners have recognized the methodology’s strength and incorporated it into national slum upgrading programs. The booklet will highlight five tools that have been successfully deployed by the NSDFU.ce. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | A Jordan Ombudsman Bureau with Enhanced Capacity | The Ombudsman Bureau in Jordan was established in 2008. It was created to provide an avenue for redress by citizens for complaints against public sector bodies - part of the Government s drive to improve the public sector | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? | This paper reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. The conceptual framework further distinguishes between two trajectories for ICT-enabled citizen voice: Upwards accountability and& Downwards accountability. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? Does E-Government Make Governments in Developing Countries More Transparent and Accountable? | This paper discusses literature relating to the unintended consequences and downside risks for transparency and accountability associated with the way recorded information is produced and managed in digitally enabled developing country public sector contexts. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Indonesia : How to Get Parents’ Attention | As countries, including Indonesia, continue to rely on school-based management to improve accountability and learning, the evaluation shows that getting parents and communities involved-and making sure they are informed-may require more intensive efforts. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Public Procurement Reform in Morocco | Over the last decade Morocco has made important strides in responding to citizen demands for more transparency, accountability, and shared prosperity. This has also extended into the public sector and its varied functions. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | PPIAF Helps the City of Dakar Improve its Creditworthiness | PPIAF’s Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA) program is helping the City of Dakar to obtain financing to improve its infrastructure services. SNTA’s support to the City of Dakar began in 2008,when PPIAF helped the city to undertake a Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA)1 assessment. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Accountability | Municipal Citizen Service Centers in Southeastern Europe : Survey Results on Success Factors, Challenges, and the Human Rights Approach of Municipal One-Stop Shop in the Western Balkans | This report presents the results of an online survey administered in six southeastern European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The survey was aimed at gathering insights related to the operations and human rights approach of municipal one-stop shops delivering services to citizens. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Learning from the IRM Reports: the case of UK and Norway | The goal of this webinar was to share lessons learned from the first progress reports, common trends and the process for future IRM reports. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Open Contracting From Principles to Practice | Open contracting aims to increase disclosure and participation in all stages of public contracting (from planning to completion of obligations). A growing number of countries are enhancing disclosure and advancing with participatory options. Colombia and Liberia are two OGP member countries that have made significant progress in opening public contracts. Their experiences are suggesting the real potential of Open Contracting to contribute to sustainable public resource management and innovative performance in delivery of goods and services, and hence to further demonstrate the value of open and accountable government. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Open Government Partnership Webinars | These webinars provide expert insight into implementing open government tools and approaches. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | TDLC Technical Deep Dive | TDLC TDD is a first-hand knowledge exchange program including workshops, site visits, peer-peer knowledge sharing and action planning, which aims to foster operational development of World Bank funded projects in specific topics in close collaboration with the World Bank's Communities of Practice. The group aims to guide the new TDD participants who will be participating in the TDD programs as well as to serve as a community platform for the alumni of TDD participants | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems - Advanced Level (Facilitated) | Civil registration (CR) is the recording of vital events in a person’s life (e.g., birth, death) and is a fundamental function of the national government. Having an effective CRVS system is critical for planning and monitoring programs across several sectors. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Flagship Initiatives to Foster Civic Innovation (Podcast) | Cities can re-validate and rejuvenate urban services that reflect both the needs of citizens and those of the city hall by asking citizens to contribute to the design of services, products, business models and environments. Various instruments such as crowdsourcing campaigns, offline meetings and interactive policy workshops can be used to open up the planning process to citizens. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Raising the Bar: What works to Reduce Poverty and Spur Growth | Ministers discuss how to grow their way out of poverty | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Participatory Planning Improving the Lives of Communities in Lao | Since 2002, Lao PDR’s Poverty Reduction Fund has been working to develop rural areas and improve the lives households living in rural areas. The PRF emphasizes the participation of the poor, including ethnic groups, to ensure that their voices are heard, needs are met, and that development planning between villages and districts are better coordinated. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Planning for Africa’s Growing Cities | By 2040, more than half of Africa's population will live in cities. What does urbanization mean? What are the benefits and challenges? And how can we plan rapidly developing cities so that people can live happy and productive lives? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Sharing Singapore’s Development Success | Join World Bank Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific Victoria Kwakwa as she explores Singapore’s transformation in only five decades to become a high income economy. In addition to fostering innovations in infrastructure financing and urban development, the World Bank’s Singapore Hub for Infrastructure and Urban Development helps enable Singapore to further share the lessons learned in their development trajectory, with countries in the region and around the world. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | MetroLab: Think Outside Your Boundary | MetroLab is helping cities and regions learn from each other and find innovative approaches for planning, service delivery and economic development at the metropolitan level. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Seoul Government: Mayor Park – Part 02 | How can city administrations create systems that allow collaborative governance with citizens? | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | Mind the Implementation Gap | The difference between the rules on paper and the rules in practice is known as the implementation gap. What can we do to overcome this gap? Find out how the World Bank is using process maps to measure and overcome the implementation gap. Mind the implementation gap! | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | The Flexible City – Emergent Governance Session : Roger Keil (York University) | Roger Keil discusses the growth patterns of rapid urban expansion. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | The Flexible City - Emergent Governance Session: Comments and Q&A Panel | Presenters from the Emergent Governance session respond to questions in a discussion panel format. | Go to the website |
| World Bank | Planning | The Flexible City - Emergent Governance Session: Beth Perry (University of Salford) | Beth Perry discusses the evolution of governance & its future for urban systems. | Go to the website |