CENTS Governance Academy : a training hub under the Lai’Latif & Co Advocates
We build fiscal capability inside government, training officials to make policy, draft law and account to the public with confidence.
5,000+
stakeholders trained
33
countries
11
subjects · 66 modules
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Executive & Specialist Programmes
FeaturedMost training treats the budget as a document. We treat it as the moment a legislature either exercises or surrenders control of the executive, and we teach officials to read it for the power it moves rather than the numbers it lists.
Executive & Specialist Programmes
FeaturedDevolution is taught almost everywhere as administration. We teach it as a standing contest over money, won or lost in the drafting of a single clause, and we do it on the constitutional text rather than on generalities.
Executive & Specialist Programmes
FeaturedA single clause can surrender a generation of fiscal sovereignty, and it is usually one nobody read closely. We teach officials to find the red flags in a live contract and to draft the green flags that protect the right to tax and to regulate.
Why CENTS
Train with people who have drafted the legislation, argued the appeals before tax tribunals, and sat in the rooms where treaties are negotiated.
Law & policy
Drafting clinics rooted in real statutes.
Public finance
Budget, revenue, and accountability tools.
Who We Train
Ministries & agencies
Ministries of Finance, Revenue Authorities, County Governments, and Regulators building stronger fiscal systems.
Lawmakers & drafters
Parliament, Legislative Drafters, and Tax Policy Makers who shape legal and policy direction.
Accountability partners
Civil Society, Media, and Private Sector actors who support accountability and better policy outcomes.
What We Train On
01 · Public finance
Most training treats the budget as a document. We treat it as the moment a legislature either exercises or surrenders control of the executive, and we teach officials to read it for the power it moves rather than the numbers it lists.
02 · Devolution
Devolution is taught almost everywhere as administration. We teach it as a standing contest over money, won or lost in the drafting of a single clause, and we do it on the constitutional text rather than on generalities.
03 · Revenue
Widening the revenue base without breaking the livelihoods that are the base is the central fiscal problem of a developing economy.
04 · Treaties & law
A treaty signed decades ago still decides what your treasury may tax today, and most were written to favour the other side of the table. We teach officials to read that text for what it concedes, and to rewrite it.
05 · Transfer pricing
Profit leaves a country through prices set between related parties, and each transaction looks ordinary on its face. We teach the analysis that proves it and the audit that recovers it, including the comparables problem no textbook solves.
06 · Illicit flows
More than fifty billion dollars is estimated to leave Africa each year, and it leaves in plain sight through ordinary commercial records. We teach officials to see it, interrupt it and bring it back.
07 · Contracts
A single clause can surrender a generation of fiscal sovereignty, and it is usually one nobody read closely. We teach officials to find the red flags in a live contract and to draft the green flags that protect the right to tax and to regulate.
08 · Legislative drafting
A provision rarely fails because it was badly drafted. It fails because the instruction behind it misread the economics or the behaviour. We teach the context that lets a drafter interrogate the instruction before the loophole is enacted.
09 · Digital economy
Value now crosses your borders without leaving a taxable trace, and the rules that once caught it were built for warehouses and factories. We teach officials how to tax presence that has been engineered away.
10 · Fairness & AI
A neutral-looking tax can fall hardest on the poorest household, and an algorithm can entrench that outcome behind a claim of objectivity. We teach officials to measure who really pays and to govern the systems that now decide.
11 · Data & innovation
The state already holds the data that would let it see risk coming, and rarely uses it. We teach officials to turn what they hold into foresight.
How We Train
We combine workshops, legal drafting clinics, and implementation support.
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One subject taken through an intensive working day, nine to five. Outcome: A drafted clause, position or plan
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A priority area in depth, with role play, simulation and co-developed solutions. Outcome: A portfolio your team defends
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Six modules with supervised applied research on a live problem of your own. Outcome: A capstone defended before a panel
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Designed around a challenge you bring us, from a few days to four weeks. Outcome: A programme and tools that stay
Programmes
Open formats
A single working day, nine to five, on one subject — for an institution that needs a sharp intervention rather…
Three days on a single priority area, for a team that must return able to run the problem rather than describe…
Specialised & curated
Our principal formation: six modules take a cohort from foundations through to the frontier of a subject. Six…
A course designed to a client’s own demand when the problem does not fit a published outline. Not every instit…
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