Development Finance International

The key modalities for developing in-country capacity to conduct all aspects of debt and aid management are:

• Needs assessment missions to identify national capacity needs and to propose ways of meetings them,
  
  
• National training events, which provide intensive hand-on training for a team of national officials in the specific tasks and analyses required to design and implement a national debt or aid strategy
  
  
• Institutional missions to work with national officials on how to strengthen the legal and institutional frameworks for conducing all aspects of debt and aid management
  
  
• Follow-up or technical missions to provide technical support in a specific area of debt management, including for example assistance with debt negotiations,
  
  
• Sensitisation or dissemination event to work with national officials to prepare for a seminar or one-day workshop to sensitise senior policymakers, public, CSOs or other key groups to the importance and relevance of government’s debt and/or aid policy
  
  
• Intensive assistance and ad hoc support to provide tailored support to meet country specific capacity needs, which can be a one-off technical support mission or a full programme of support including workshops and missions.

Country reports below provide an overview of DFI’s involvement, through the HIPC Capacity Building Programme to date.