MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg

Programme Overview

Micro, small, and medium enterprise finance remains constrained across Southern Africa by collateral deficits and elevated risk perceptions among private commercial lenders.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ Partial credit guarantee schemes serve as essential public interventions to de-risk private capital and expand bank intermediation to underserved enterprises. This five-day executive programme in Johannesburg equips public sector leaders with technical methodologies to design, capitalise, and operationalise market-responsive credit guarantee schemes and blended risk-sharing facilities in line with international financial standards.

Participants explore the core architecture of guarantee funds, balancing developmental mandates with long-term financial sustainability. The curriculum examines risk distribution models, pricing strategies, counter-guarantee structures, and operational engagement with commercial banks and non-bank financial intermediaries. Through targeted analysis of legal and institutional arrangements, delegates learn to draft transparent eligibility guidelines, establish robust default definitions, and implement rigorous claim settlement frameworks that prevent moral hazard while maintaining lender trust and regulatory compliance.

The programme also addresses ongoing governance, balance sheet management, and portfolio surveillance. Officials examine capital adequacy models, leverage ratios, and prudential oversight aligned with the Basel Committee frameworks and regional central banking guidelines. By bridging policy intent with transactional mechanics, the course ensures finance specialists, enterprise fund coordinators, and central bank regulators can confidently structure, monitor, and evaluate risk-sharing facilities funded by national treasuries and multilateral development institutions.

Public institutions across Southern Africa are deploying catalytic financial intermediary interventions to accelerate economic diversification and private enterprise recovery.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ These operational efforts require finance specialists to roll out robust risk-sharing mechanisms under major initiatives such as the Access to Finance and Economic Opportunities Project (Mais Oportunidades). Establishing standardised credit guarantee protocols is urgent to prevent capital misallocation, ensure commercial bank uptake, satisfy multilateral project disbursement criteria, and protect sovereign and donor capital against unhedged default shocks.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Johannesburg, South Africa, 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

• Principles of public de-risking and credit additionality in Southern African financial markets
• Comparative models: Direct guarantee schemes, portfolio facilities, and counter-guarantee structures
• Legal incorporation, governing boards, and independence: Mitigating political interference
• Establishing contractual frameworks and Master Guarantee Agreements with participating lenders
• Aligning facility objectives with national MSME policies and World Bank Group guarantee principles
• Structuring first-loss, second-loss, and pari passu risk-sharing arrangements
• Determining guarantee coverage ratios: Balancing additionality against moral hazard
• Actuarial principles for pricing guarantee fees: Upfront, annual, and performance-linked models
• Budget preparation and execution
• Financial reporting and accounting standards
• Cash and treasury management
• Internal control over payments and assets

It is designed for financial sector regulators and central bank supervisory officers, development finance institution executives and credit managers, national enterprise development fund managers and directors and others who want practical, current skills in public financial management and finance.

The Growing Importance of MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg

Sound financial management is the basis for credible budgets, timely payments and clean audits. Governments and financiers expect accurate reporting, disciplined budget execution and transparent use of funds.

Changes in reporting standards, digital payment systems and financier requirements mean finance teams must keep their skills current. Strong financial management also frees time and money for the services that matter.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Prepare and execute budgets in line with plans
• Produce accurate, timely financial reports
• Apply controls over payments and assets
• Meet financier financial management requirements
• Use financial information to support decisions

Strong public financial management and finance systems help organisations:

• Improve budget credibility and execution
• Produce reliable reports and clean audits
• Reduce payment delays and errors
• Build trust with financiers and oversight bodies

This MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg 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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Financial sector regulators and central bank supervisory officers
• Development finance institution executives and credit managers
• National enterprise development fund managers and directors
• Project coordination unit specialists managing donor-funded credit lines
• Commercial banking heads of MSME credit and risk sharing
• Ministry of finance policy advisors and sovereign debt managers
• Risk management specialists from credit guarantee corporations
• Non-bank financial institution regulators and microfinance supervisors
• Investment analysts structuring blended finance and de-risking facilities
• Finance managers and accountants
• Budget officers and analysts
• Treasury and cash management staff

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.

MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate structural models for individual, portfolio, and hybrid credit guarantee mechanisms
• Design risk-sharing allocation formulas that balance public additions with private commercial incentives
• Formulate transparent eligibility screening criteria for target micro, small, and medium enterprises
• Establish standardised operational procedures for loan default verification and claim payouts
• Calibrate guarantee fee structures, recovery mechanisms, and capital adequacy governance rules
• Integrate international monitoring standards to mitigate lender moral hazard and adverse selection
• Develop operational reporting frameworks satisfying multilateral development bank compliance standards
• Defining defaults: Aligning non-performing loan triggers with Basel standards and national regulations
• The claims lifecycle: Notice of default, verification requirements, and processing timelines
• Auditing lender due diligence: Ensuring appropriate debt recovery efforts prior to payout

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

MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training Methodology

The programme employs adult-learning methodologies focused on public sector implementation.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​⁣ Delivery combines structured presentations on international frameworks with detailed technical deconstructions of operational credit facilities. Delegates engage in applied group exercises to draft guarantee eligibility scorecards, model leverage ratios using balance sheet templates, and simulate claim dispute audits. Facilitators lead comparative reviews of operational schemes across Sub-Saharan Africa, enabling participants to adapt practical tools directly into their institutional workflows.

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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training, participants will be able to:

• Ability to structure and execute portfolio and individual credit guarantee agreements
• Competence in setting pricing schedules that offset expected defaults and operational costs
• Capacity to establish lender compliance frameworks that curb moral hazard and adverse selection
• Skill in conducting rigorous claim verification and coordinating post-payout asset recoveries
• Knowledge to maintain balance sheet sustainability and capital adequacy under IFRS 9 rules
• Readiness to oversee financial intermediary facilities funded by international development partners
• Prepare and monitor budgets linked to plans
• Produce accurate financial reports

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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Budget preparation and execution
• Financial reporting
• Payment and cash controls
• Donor financial management
• Audit readiness

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Budget monitoring
• Interim financial reports
• Reconciliations
• Asset management
• Audit follow-up

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 public financial management and finance 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 public financial management and finance 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 public financial management and finance. 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 public financial management and finance that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Johannesburg, South Africa brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how public financial management and finance 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 – South Africa

Risalat Consultants International runs open-enrolment training programmes in Johannesburg, South Africa for officials, project teams and professionals from across the region. Dates, fees and what each programme covers are listed above, and any programme can also be delivered in-house for your institution.

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.

MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg 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
• MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Readiness Assessment
• MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg 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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg Training Manual
• Budget Monitoring Template
• Interim Financial Report Template
• Reconciliation Checklist
• Audit Preparation Checklist
• 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
• Financial Management Self-Assessment
• Payment Control 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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions prepare and execute budgets in line with plans?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Institutional Architecture and Legal Foundations of Credit Guarantees), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions produce accurate, timely financial reports?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Risk-Sharing Mechanisms, Product Structuring, and Pricing Models), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions apply controls over payments and assets?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Eligibility Screening, Origination, and Portfolio Management), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions meet financier financial management requirements?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Default Administration, Claim Verification, and Debt Recovery), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions use financial information to support decisions?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Financial Governance, Capital Adequacy, and Impact Evaluation), 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 MSME Credit Guarantee Scheme Design and Risk-Sharing Facilities in Johannesburg programme take place?

It runs from 19 Jul 2027 to 23 Jul 2027, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for financial sector regulators and central bank supervisory officers, development finance institution executives and credit managers, national enterprise development fund managers and directors, project coordination unit specialists managing donor-funded credit lines, and others who want practical skills in public financial management and finance.

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 public financial management and finance?

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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