The Power to Govern, the Duty to Account
CENTS Governance Academy

Executive & Specialist Programmes

Governing Public Money and Accountability

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.

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Programme overview

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.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

Cabinet offices and ministries, treasury and public finance officers, members of budget and public accounts committees, boards and finance directors of state corporations.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    The hidden balance sheet: guarantees, partnership commitments, arrears and state corporation exposure

  2. 02

    Debt service as a prior claim: how borrowing and external conditionality pre-commit a budget before allocation begins

  3. 03

    The gap between appropriation and execution: cash rationing, commitment control and the arrears cycle

  4. 04

    Pricing a sovereign guarantee and provisioning for contingent liabilities

  5. 05

    Fiscal rules that bind and fiscal rules that are evaded: institutional design against political incentive

  6. 06

    Capstone: a fiscal risk and accountability framework defended before cabinet and public accounts scrutiny

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