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Workshop on the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Methodology

The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) have developed a course to help donors, recipients and other agencies understand the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Methodology and how it works in the real world day to day.

What is it?
This two and half day workshop is designed to help participants understand and apply the PEFA methodology.

The workshop will cover:

the key concepts of the PEFA Strengthened Approach to PFM reform.
the purpose of undertaking a PEFA based PFM assessment.
how to comply with PEFA Framework principles and methodology in the implementation of a PFM performance assessment, based on identifying the evidence required to rate indicators and how to obtain this evidence.
how to understand the issues in initiating, planning, resourcing and quality assuring an assessment which requires collaboration between the country government, donor partners and PEFA assessors.
How to effectively supporting the planning and managing of a PEFA assessment.

The course will also include inputs from the PEFA Secretariat in Washington DC, enabling participants to understand the latest thinking and approaches in this field.

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Who is it for?
The workshop is designed for Government officials and representatives of donor agencies, who are likely to have an involvement in supporting the PEFA assessments It is assumed that participants in this workshop will have good basic understanding of public financial management, and it is expected that participants in advance will have familiarized themselves with the PEFA PFM Performance Measurement Framework documentation (contained on PEFA’s website: www.pefa.org).

Course date and price
The two and a half day course is being held on 15-17 June 2011 at CIFPA Education and Training Centre’s office in London.

We are currently offering the course at a special rate of £995.00 until the end of May 2011. We are seeking donor sponsorship for attendees unable to meet the full cost of the workshop.

Booking and more information
To find out more about the workshop call 020 7403 4300 and to enrol on the workshop please download the enrolment form

The course will run subject to available numbers. CIPFA reserves the right to cancel the course up to 07 June 2011.