Builds capacity for Debt Management, Macroeconomic and Financial Management in the countries of member central banks.
The central banks of The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
The Institute is located at the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria Learning Centre, Satellite Town, Lagos, Nigeria.
Is an international organization, accorded diplomatic status in the countries of member central banks.
The target audience of WAIFEM training programmes consists of senior, executive and middle level officials of:
- Central Banks;
- Ministries of Finance and Budget Office;
- Ministries of Economic Planning;
- Debt Management Office;
- Other Financial Institutions;
- National Parliaments;
- Media Houses;
- Other public sector agencies involved in macroeconomic and financial policy formulation and implementation;
- Relevant private sector agencies.
The Institute maintains a database of regional and non-regional resource persons from which facilitators are invited for training programmes.
However, interested consultants may apply to:
The Director General
WAIFEM
Central Bank of Nigeria Learning Centre
Satellite Town
Lagos State
Nigeria
Email: capacity@waifem-cbp.org.
Requests for nominations are sent by WAIFEM to relevant organisations who communicate their nominies to the Institute by completing the nomination form. However, prospective applicants who are interested in WAIFEM training programmes have to channel their requests through their organisations or employers.
Online nomination form is available on this site.
WAIFEM's training programmes are demand driven and structured into three thematic areas: macroeconomic management, debt management and financial sector management.
It is a programme ment to develop a critical mass of experts in priority functional areas for both external and domestic debt management with a view to building a sustainable capacity in these areas.
Candidates are selected in an open competitive basis, using a set criteria.
- The production of national capacity building plans for debt management;
- Improving legal framework and appropriate institutional and organizational arrangements for debt management;
- Strengthening capacity for basic sxternal debt management functions, including debt recording, disbursement procedures and debt servicing;
- Enhancing capacity for renegotiation of external debt and for new external borrowing;
- Increasing the capacity for domestic public debt management functions;
- Increasing the capacity for debt sustainability analysis and the development of national debt strategies;
- Ensuring the awareness of debt management policy issues, among senior government officials, legislators, the media and other opinion leaders.
- Financial sector development among countries of member central banks;
- Building capacity for capital market development in the sub-region;
- Strengthened capacity for effective payment and settlement system;
- Strengthened human and institutional capacity for efficient foreign exchange management;
- Promoting constructive collaboration of public and private sectors;
- Production of national capacity building plans for reserves management;
- Improving legal framework and appropriate institutional and organizational arrangements for reserves management;
- Strengthening capacity for reserves management;
- Production of national capacity building plans for reserves management.
- Building capacity for macroeconomic analysis and management;
- Developing fiscal management and reforms;
- Strengthened capacity for effective monetary policy formulation and management;
- Improvement of capacity for effective public finance management;
- Enhancement of capacity for macroeconomic modeling and forecasting;
- Strengthened awareness on good good governance issues among legislators and senior government officials, the media and other opinion leaders.