Introduction

Public sector organisations face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality services while maintaining fiscal discipline, accountability, and public trust. Achieving sustainable outcomes requires strong governance structures, effective risk management practices, sound financial stewardship, and strategic leadership capable of responding to evolving economic, regulatory, and societal challenges.

The Public Sector Management, Governance & Fiscal Sustainability Techniques training course provides participants with an integrated understanding of governance, risk management, compliance, strategic planning, and fiscal sustainability. The training course explores how governance frameworks, risk-based assurance models, and performance management systems can work together to strengthen decision-making, improve accountability, and support long-term organisational success.

Participants will gain practical insights into governance practices within financial institutions, public sector strategic management, fiscal planning, and programme oversight. By combining governance excellence with sustainable financial management techniques, the training course enables organisations to improve service delivery, strengthen institutional resilience, and enhance stakeholder confidence.

Key focus areas include:

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Public Sector Management, Governance & Fiscal Sustainability Techniques training course, participants will be able to:

Training Methodology

This training course adopts a practical and participative learning approach that combines expert-led presentations, workshops, case studies, discussions, exercises, and knowledge-sharing activities. Participants examine real-world governance, financial management, and strategic planning challenges while developing practical solutions that can be applied directly within their organisations.

Public Sector Management, Governance & Fiscal Sustainability Techniques

Who Should Attend?

This Public Sector Management, Governance & Fiscal Sustainability Techniques training course is designed for:

  • Senior and Middle Management within Government and Public Sector Organisations
  • Executive Management and Directors
  • Finance Directors and Financial Controllers
  • Internal Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance Professionals
  • Governance and Corporate Affairs Professionals
  • Managers of Internal Control Functions
  • Public Sector Programme and Project Leaders
  • Non-Financial Executives and Senior Decision-Makers

Course Outline

Module I: Corporate Governance for Financial Institutions

Day 1
Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions: Foundations and Board Effectiveness
  • Definition, principles and added value of corporate governance in regulated financial institutions
  • The latest legal and regulatory governance requirements applicable to banks, insurers and investment firms
  • Board composition, models and effectiveness evaluation
  • The CRO, CCO and CAE
  • Governance culture
  • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration and current reporting obligations
Day 2
GRC Integration: Risk Management, Compliance & Internal Audit Working Together
  • The GRC perspective: governance, risk and compliance as an integrated system
  • The Three Lines of Defence model: roles, responsibilities and how convergence adds value
  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Risk-based internal audit
  • Risk-based compliance
  • AI and digital risk management
Day 3
Banking Regulation and Financial Risk Governance
  • The current regulatory landscape for financial institutions: prudential, conduct and supervisory requirements
  • Capital adequacy requirements
  • Credit risk governance
  • Market risk, interest rate risk in the banking book and liquidity risk
  • Operational risk: technology, conduct, third-party and outsourcing risk under current regulatory frameworks
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis
Day 4
Financial Crime, AML/CFT Compliance and Conduct Risk
  • Current AML/CFT legal and regulatory requirements
  • Money laundering and terrorist financing
  • Customer due diligence and politically exposed persons under current requirements
  • Fraud risk governance
  • Market abuse, conduct risk and consumer protection obligations
  • The MLRO and compliance function
Day 5
Crisis Governance, Digital Risk and Building Governance Culture
  • Board governance during financial crises
  • Operational resilience
  • Digital transformation governance: technology strategy oversight, AI and model risk, and cyber governance
  • Fintech, crypto-assets and digital finance

Module II: Strategic Management, Monitoring and Planning for Government and Public Sector

Day 6
Public Sector Management in Changing Financial and Economic Environments
  • Understanding How Volatility Impacts Government Decision-making
  • Developing Financial Data Collection and Analysis Networks For Decision-making Inputs
  • Creating More Effective Lines of Communication to Improve Decision-making Processes
Day 7
Strategic Boards & Strategic Thinking and Planning
  • Role and Responsibilities of Board Members: Strategic Boards and Strategic Members
  • Role of Strategic Planning and Thinking in Driving Organization's Sustainable Growth For Within The Context of Sustainable Development
  • Developing Strategic Planning Culture is Required to Uphold Organizations’ Growth
  • Connecting Challenges with Strategic Objectives
  • Digesting Strategy's Berries to Ensure Success
  • Questions a Leader should be Equipped with to Drive Organizations:
    • How to create and develop a vivid strategy and to ensure smooth execution?
    • How to dwindle the gap between the organization strategic planning and execution?
    • What can cause a strategy to fail?
    • How to monitor strategy to lead to organizational success and glory?
    • How to close strategy to performance gap?
    • How to measure & monitor the strategic objectives through a set of KPIs (Strategic & Operational)?
Day 8
Strategies to Institutionalize the Regulation, Monitoring, and Enforcement of Government Projects / Programs
  • Understanding the Linkages between Sound Institutions, Good Policies and Effective Government Programs
  • Determining the Appropriate Balance of Government Regulation
  • Developing Program Monitoring Plans that Focus on Accountability and Transparency
Day 9
Strategies to Reduce Systemic Corrupt Practices in Government Operations
  • Developing Managerial Accountability Plans at Each Level of Government
  • Identifying Techniques to Mitigate Corrupt Practices
  • Developing Performance-based Indicators to Analyze and Measure Results
  • Improving Procedures and Quality in Daily Transactions with Customer / Beneficiaries
Day 10
Fiscal Management Accountability: Revenue Forecasting and Expense Budgeting
  • Understanding Revenue Requirements For On-going Operations and Asset Expenditures
  • Setting Priorities For Tax Policy, User Fees, and other Cost Recovery Tools Under IASB
  • Using Performance Budgeting to Set Government Program Priorities
  • Liquidity Risk Management

International Standards & Professional Alignment

Our training courses are aligned with internationally recognised professional standards and frameworks across leadership, strategy, finance, governance, risk, compliance, and audit. By integrating globally trusted models, we ensure learners develop practical, relevant, and industry-recognised capabilities.

Our trainings draw on leading international standards and professional frameworks, including ISO, ISACA, COSO, OECD, IIA, FATF, Basel, IFRS/ISSB, GRI, NIST, CPD, ILM and the OECD AI Principles. This alignment ensures consistency with global best practices across financial management, risk oversight, digital governance, sustainability, and strategic decision-making..

Designed in alignment with globally recognised professional bodies, our courses support continuous professional development, strengthen organisational capability, and provide clear pathways toward professional certifications valued worldwide.

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