Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi

Programme Overview

Public investment management and public sector performance auditing are critical disciplines for ensuring capital expenditure translates into sustainable economic infrastructure.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ In Kenya and across the region, public institutions face increasing pressure to enhance capital efficiency, eliminate project delays, and demonstrate strict accountability. This four-day intensive programme equips practitioners with advanced competencies required to design robust appraisal mechanisms, enforce statutory gatekeeping stages, and apply value-for-money audit procedures in full compliance with public financial management regulations and international standards.

Delegates will examine the entire public investment cycle, starting from project concept formulation, multi-criteria pre-feasibility, and socioeconomic cost-benefit analysis, through to execution monitoring and post-completion review. The curriculum integrates the Public Investment Management (PIM) Guidelines issued by the National Treasury of Kenya with international methodologies established by the World Bank and other development partners. Participants gain technical skills to safeguard public funds by identifying unviable schemes before budget allocation and addressing cost overruns during project delivery.

The performance auditing component provides a systematic approach to assessing the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of public projects. Following International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI) and national oversight frameworks, attendees learn to establish audit design matrices, collect verifiable evidence, and draft actionable audit recommendations. By linking project gatekeeping directly to performance auditing, the programme enables government departments to maintain robust internal controls and achieve tangible developmental impact across all funded capital portfolios.

Public sector entities in Kenya are actively implementing critical governance reforms to strengthen public investment and improve service delivery, supported by major development initiatives such as the US$250m Second Programme for Strengthening Governance for Enabling Service Delivery and Public Investment.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Successfully executing these systemic reforms demands urgent capacity development among civil servants responsible for capital allocation and oversight. Public institutions must immediately operationalise rigorous gatekeeping controls, establish credible medium-term investment plans, and conduct evidence-based performance audits to ensure that national assets deliver their intended public value without fiscal waste.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Nairobi, Kenya, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Analysis of the PIM regulatory architecture, statutory guidelines, and international best practice
• The project lifecycle: Concept screening, preliminary proposals, and gateway clearance mechanisms
• Socioeconomic appraisal techniques: Conducting cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
• Environmental, climate resilience, and social risk assessment in public investment planning
• Practical laboratory: Constructing a standardised pre-feasibility appraisal matrix for infrastructure
• Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for national project selection and scoring
• Fiscal affordability, debt sustainability, and contingent liability assessment for capital projects
• Integrating approved projects into the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)
• Fraud risk assessment and fraud risk registers
• Design and testing of internal controls
• The Three Lines model and the role of oversight
• Audit planning, evidence and documentation

It is designed for economists and policy analysts in Public Investment Management departments, budget and fiscal policy analysts within the National Treasury and line ministries, internal audit directors and managers across government ministries, departments, and agencies and others who want practical, current skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

The Growing Importance of Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi

Public bodies and donor-financed projects are expected to show that funds are used for their intended purpose. Auditors, oversight bodies and financiers increasingly look beyond the financial statements to the controls, records and behaviours behind them.

Fraud and control weaknesses rarely come from one failure. They grow where roles are unclear, records are incomplete and warning signs are not followed up. Teams that understand how fraud happens, and how controls stop it, protect both their institution and the people it serves.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design controls that are proportionate and testable
• Gather and document reliable audit evidence
• Recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly
• Turn findings into practical, agreed actions

Strong fraud, audit and internal control systems help organisations:

• Reduce losses and ineligible expenditure
• Pass external audits with fewer findings
• Strengthen trust with financiers and citizens
• Respond to allegations in a fair and documented way

This Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Economists and policy analysts in Public Investment Management departments
• Budget and fiscal policy analysts within the National Treasury and line ministries
• Internal audit directors and managers across government ministries, departments, and agencies
• Programme managers and technical specialists leading donor-financed capital projects
• Monitoring and evaluation officers tracking major public infrastructure programmes
• County government finance directors and economic planning officers
• Auditors from supreme audit institutions tasked with infrastructure performance audits
• Procurement oversight specialists involved in major capital works and concessions
• Internal auditors and audit managers
• Finance managers and accountants
• Compliance and risk officers
• Procurement officers and managers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training, participants will be able to:

• Apply national PIM guidelines and international gatekeeping principles across the infrastructure project lifecycle
• Develop comprehensive pre-feasibility and feasibility appraisal matrices for public investment proposals
• Execute cost-benefit analyses, cost-effectiveness analyses, and socioeconomic impact evaluations
• Formulate medium-term capital budget allocation plans aligned with fiscal strategy frameworks
• Design value-for-money performance audit matrices using ISSAI standards for public projects
• Conduct risk-based internal control assessments to detect project delays and expenditure leakage
• Draft evidence-based performance audit findings and actionable corrective action plans
• Explain how and why fraud happens, using recognised fraud risk models
• Carry out a fraud and control risk assessment for a real process
• Map controls to risks using the Three Lines model

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training Methodology

The programme employs a practical, practitioner-led adult learning methodology combining interactive technical lectures, real-world case analyses, and collaborative working groups.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Delegates engage directly with actual public sector investment challenges, applying Kenyan regulatory requirements and international frameworks to hands-on exercises. Peer discussions, simulation of gateway review panels, and practical audit drafting sessions ensure that acquired knowledge is immediately translatable into delegates daily operational functions.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training, participants will be able to:

• Appraise public capital expenditure proposals rigorously using standard socioeconomic evaluation tools
• Enforce formal gatekeeping procedures to prevent unready or economically unviable projects from entering the budget
• Align capital project pipelines with medium-term expenditure frameworks and fiscal consolidation targets
• Deploy comprehensive tracking frameworks to monitor project implementation schedules, milestones, and disbursements
• Execute value-for-money performance audits of public infrastructure projects in line with ISSAI standards
• Produce clear, high-impact performance audit reports that drive institutional accountability and policy reform
• Assess fraud and control risks in their own processes
• Design and test proportionate controls

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Fraud and corruption risk management
• Internal control frameworks
• Audit and oversight arrangements
• Follow-up of audit findings
• Integrity and reporting channels

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk registers and control maps
• Audit planning and testing
• Evidence and documentation
• Reporting to management and boards
• Prevention of ineligible expenditure

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply fraud, audit and internal control within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in fraud, audit and internal control increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on fraud, audit and internal control. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to fraud, audit and internal control that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Nairobi, Kenya brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how fraud, audit and internal control is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Kenya

Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Nairobi, Kenya by Risalat Consultants International

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Readiness Assessment
• Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi Training Manual
• Fraud Risk Register Template
• Control Mapping Matrix
• Audit Evidence Checklist
• Findings and Follow-up Tracker
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Fraud Risk Self-Assessment Guide
• Control Testing Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions identify and rate fraud and control risks in their own processes?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Public Investment Management Frameworks and Project Appraisal), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design controls that are proportionate and testable?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Gatekeeping, Prioritisation, and Capital Budget Integration), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions gather and document reliable audit evidence?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Project Execution Monitoring and Value-for-Money Auditing Principles), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions recognise red flags early and escalate them correctly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Performance Audit Execution, Reporting, and Post-Project Evaluation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions turn findings into practical, agreed actions?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Public Investment Management Frameworks and Project Appraisal), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Public Investment Management and Public Sector Performance Auditing in Nairobi programme take place?

It runs from 17 May 2027 to 20 May 2027, in Nairobi, Kenya. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for economists and policy analysts in Public Investment Management departments, budget and fiscal policy analysts within the National Treasury and line ministries, internal audit directors and managers across government ministries, departments, and agencies, programme managers and technical specialists leading donor-financed capital projects, and others who want practical skills in fraud, audit and internal control.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in fraud, audit and internal control?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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