1. INTRODUCTION
The Commonwealth Secretariat’s capacity building programme in debt management in its member countries has developed and continuously maintains a suite of debt management software comprising the Commonwealth Secretariat Debt Recording and Management System (CS-DRMS). The CS-DRMS software is utilised in more than 60 countries around the world and is primarily used to record and manage loans and securities contracted by the general government (www.csdrms.org).
The turmoil that has swept across the world’s economies since 2007 has shown in stark terms the fragility of the global financial architecture and how so many things can go wrong so quickly. A debt crisis that began in the banking sector quickly manifested itself as a sovereign debt crisis. The rapid pace of globalization and economic liberalization means that no country – big or small, developing, developed or emerging economy – is insulated entirely from the vagaries of the crisis. Characterized by sharply increased borrowing costs, credit rating downgrades and bailout packages the crisis has reinforced the importance for prudent sovereign debt management for countries’ financial and economic well-being.
2. AICD DEBT MANAGEMENT SERVICE TO GOVERNMENTS
Training improves skills and knowledge in technical areas as well as in management and leadership. We build knowledge, understanding and skills through on-the-job training. We design and deliver specific training courses at the request of governments and institutions and run our own scheduled open courses.
We deliver our training worldwide, including at our dedicated International Training Institute in the Kempton Park, Johannesburg, South Africa.
We deliver training in external and domestic debt management at national and sub-national levels:
- Innovative sources of finance
- Loan negotiation and evaluation
- Debt restructuring techniques
- Domestic debt market development
- Risk management
- Debt portfolio review
- Debt sustainability analysis
- CS-DRMS software suite. To enable countries to learn from different experiences we can facilitate sharing of knowledge through arranging study tours and international workshops to developed and other emerging economies.
We continue to be at the forefront of debt management through our continual dialogue with governments, the donor community and international financial institutions.
Other Services include:
- Institutional development, including the establishment of specialized debt management offices in line with best practice
- Legal frameworks for debt management
- Development of domestic debt markets
- Advice on government financing options
- Loan negotiation and evaluation
- Installation, operationalization, training and hotline support of CS-DRMS
- Business process re-engineering
- Risk management and policy
- Technical analysis, including debt portfolio review and debt sustainability analysis
- Human resource strategy, management and development
- Capacity building
3. STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONS
The value we add through strengthening institutions, providing software solutions and enhancing skills and knowledge includes:
- Comprehensive recording, reporting and analysis of the debt portfolio
- Effective debt policy formulation and strategy implementation
- Improved institutional capacity in debt management, enhancing effectiveness and efficiency
- Reduced debt service costs over the medium to long-term
- Gradual improvement in credit worthiness
- Increased transparency in government
4. WHY CHOOSING AICD CS-DRMS EXPERTISE?
The AICD CS-DRMS Expert will assist training and implementation of CS-DRMS for managing domestic debt at the debt management office in Africa as follows: –
- Provide formal training to officials on managing domestic debt using CS-DRMS. This would be the English version of CS-DRMS
- Assist officials in the interpretation of debt instruments and compilation of transactional domestic debt data for recording in CS-DRMS;
- Support officials in recording domestic debt instruments and transactions and reconciling these instruments against statements and relevant records;
- Deliver on-the-job training and handholding on the various functions (recording and reporting) of CS-DRMS to the officials in the Debt Management Office of Africa;
- Identify reports in CS-DRMS for domestic debt reporting and train officials on their use;
- Prepare a guidance document (in English) for the Debt Management Office on how staff should effectively use CS-DRMS going forward for keeping the database up-to-date and reconciled. This is not intended to be a procedures manual, only a high-level guide. This document should be submitted within one week of the assignment.
The entire assignment including the training will be delivered in English
FOR MORE DETAILS AND COURSE OUTLINE PLEASE CONTACT:
PIERRE DUPLIS BRENNER
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