Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training

Programme Overview

This intensive training is designed to strengthen the capabilities of public sector professionals in managing public finances efficiently and aligning financial resources with measurable development outcomes. It offers a comprehensive exploration of modern Public Financial Management (PFM) systems, while equipping participants with the technical and strategic skills required to implement robust Performance-Based Budgeting (PBB) frameworks. Through a blend of theory, practical tools, and real-world examples, the course emphasizes how to transition from traditional input-oriented budgeting to models that prioritize results, accountability, and value for money. Participants will delve into global best practices in fiscal planning, budget formulation, execution, and control, along with mechanisms for enhancing transparency, expenditure efficiency, and public trust. Key focus areas include the integration of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF), and Programme-Based Budgeting (PBB), alongside the use of digital solutions and dashboards for real-time data analysis and financial oversight. The course also explores cross-cutting themes such as gender-responsive budgeting, climate financing, and citizen engagement, enabling participants to craft more inclusive and impact-oriented public finance strategies.

Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training

Host Country Profile Morocco is an ideal host city for the Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training due to its exceptional connectivity, modern infrastructure, and strategic position as the country’s economic hub. Home to Mohammed V International Airport the busiest in Morocco. Casablanca offers direct international flights from major cities across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, ensuring easy access for participants. The city features world-class conference venues, a wide range of accommodation options, and reliable transport links, including high-speed rail to Rabat and Marrakech. As Morocco’s financial capital, Casablanca provides a dynamic setting for learning, networking, and engaging with public institutions, while also offering a vibrant cultural experience and coastal charm that enhances the overall training environment.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Casablanca, Morocco, 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

• Overview of modern PFM systems and key institutional actors
• Principles of fiscal governance, transparency, and accountability
• Introduction to IPSAS and budget classification systems
• Role of internal controls and audit in the PFM cycle
• Evolution from line-item to performance budgeting
• Results-Based Management (RBM) and performance architecture
• Setting outputs, outcomes, and indicators in budget planning
• Linking budgets to national development and SDG targets
• Budget preparation and execution
• Financial reporting and accounting standards
• Cash and treasury management
• Internal control over payments and assets

It is designed for professionals who want to budget Directors and Officers, finance Ministry and Treasury Staff, local Government Finance Managers and others who want practical, current skills in public financial management and finance.

The Growing Importance of Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting

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 Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting 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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Budget Directors and Officers
• Finance Ministry and Treasury Staff
• Local Government Finance Managers
• Programme and Performance Analysts
• Auditors and Internal Controllers
• Public Sector Accountants and Planners
• Finance managers and accountants
• Budget officers and analysts
• Treasury and cash management staff
• Financial management specialists in PIUs
• Internal auditors
• CFOs and finance directors

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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training, participants will be able to:

• Understand key components and stages of modern Public Financial Management
• Design and implement performance budgeting systems linked to development outcomes
• Apply tools such as MTEF, programme-based budgeting, and cost-benefit analysis
• Align fiscal policies with planning frameworks and national priorities
• Strengthen expenditure control, reporting, and audit readiness
• Leverage digital tools for budget tracking, forecasting, and performance reporting
• Explain the budget cycle and the role of each actor
• Prepare and monitor budgets linked to plans
• Apply the main principles of the relevant reporting standards
• Manage cash and payments with sound controls

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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training Methodology

The course adopts a highly practical and participatory approach, blending expert-led presentations, interactive case studies, and group exercises. Participants will engage in hands-on simulations using widely adopted tools, including Excel-based templates, which remain foundational in many institutions for budget modeling, but also more advanced digital platforms such as Power BI, OpenGov, A1 ERP, and budget planning modules within Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS). The training introduces participants to cloud-based dashboards, collaborative tools like Trello or Monday.com, and open-source solutions used by governments and donor agencies for performance tracking and reporting. Real-world scenarios from various countries will promote peer learning and contextual adaptation, ensuring participants leave with actionable and up-to-date tools for effective fiscal management.

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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Training, participants will be able to:

• Prepare and monitor budgets linked to plans
• Produce accurate financial reports
• Apply sound payment and cash controls
• Meet financier financial management requirements
• Prepare for audits and close findings
• Use financial analysis in decisions

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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting 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 Casablanca, Morocco 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 – Morocco

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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.

The programme takes place at TBD.

Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting 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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting Readiness Assessment
• Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting 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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting 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 Public Financial Management and Performance Budgeting, 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 (Financial management foundations), 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 (Budgeting and execution), 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 (Accounting and reporting), 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 (Controls, cash and assets), 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 (Audit, analysis and action planning), 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 Financial Management and Performance Budgeting programme take place?

It runs from 1 Feb 2027 to 5 Feb 2027, in Casablanca, Morocco (TBD). The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for professionals who want to budget Directors and Officers, finance Ministry and Treasury Staff, local Government Finance Managers, programme and Performance Analysts, 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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