Debt Management

Statement of Need

Debt management is the process of establishing and executing a strategy Debt management is the process of establishing and executing a strategy for managing a governments debt in order to raise the required amount of funding, achieve its risk and cost objectives and to meet any other debt management goals that a government institution or an organisation may have set, such as developing and maintaining an efficient market for government securities. This programme provides an overview of debt and credit management by explaining concepts in a user-friendly language, avoiding mathematics and using simple illustrations and country examples.

Who Attends

A wide range of personnel in the organization who are in the following capacities. Loan/Credit officers/general managers, risk managers
financial managers internal auditors’, external auditors government auditors, and accountants.

How participants will benefit

At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Explain an overview of debt management;
• Describe the aspects of domestic and external debt;
• Explain the basic and advanced concepts in debt and credit management;
• Determine the implications of risk management.

Topics Include

• Introduction to public debt management
• Motivation for debt financing.
• Linkage between fiscal deficit and economic development.
• National debt policy framework.
• Domestic and external debt.
• Public debt governance.
• Public debt management strategies.
• Public debt risk management