Most development projects don't collapse because the idea was weak — they collapse because nobody tracked the money properly. A budget drawn up once and never revisited, a procurement process with no internal controls, a reporting system nobody trusts: these are the quiet reasons ambitious projects run out of cash before they run out of purpose.

This Training Course in Financial Planning and Control for Development Projects by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy works through the financial tools and controls that keep a project's finances aligned with its life cycle, from the first budget line to the final audit, so participants leave able to assess and strengthen their own organization's financial management systems.

Who Should Attend?

• Project finance professionals, including heads and managers of project finance departments.
• Corporate and structured finance professionals looking to broaden their project-finance expertise.
• Accountant analysts, investment bankers, and finance professionals working on donor-funded or development projects.

What Participants Will Take Away

• Adopt financial tools and techniques suited to managing projects end-to-end, and understand how donor systems function.
• Assess existing project financial management systems and identify the improvements they need.
• Appraise competing investment opportunities using discounted cash-flow analysis, and build budgets that reflect their real impact on profitability and cash flow.
• Align procurement and contracting with international best practice, and use integrated financial management information systems to raise project efficiency.
• Evaluate implementation risks and reduce them through appropriate internal controls.

Module 1: The Real Cost of Weak Project Finance

• The project life-cycle, project documentation, and how project management ties into it.
• Project implementation structures, and the financial management and controls that support them.

Module 2: Turning Numbers into Decisions — Budgeting and Accounting Standards

• Budgeting principles, and accounting policies and procedures for development projects.
• International public sector accounting standards and how they apply to project reporting.

Module 3: Procurement, Donor Rules, and Country Financial Systems

• Procurement processes for development projects.
• Country and donor financial systems, and how they shape project financial planning.

Module 4: Building the Financial Management Toolkit

• Information systems used in project financial management.
• Tools for assessing the strength of a project's financial management systems.

Module 5: Reporting, Governance and Fraud Prevention

• Reporting, monitoring and evaluation practices that support effective decision-making.
• Governance mechanisms and fraud prevention measures.

Module 6: Appraisal and Audit — Closing the Loop

• Project appraisal techniques for evaluating investment options.
• Internal and external audit practices that keep financial management accountable.

Delivery and Certification

• Delivered across the Academy's international locations — including Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Australia, and the USA — at times that fit your schedule.
• Offered through group training, individual coaching, hands-on field sessions, and in-class theoretical instruction.
• Attendees receive a certificate accredited by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy upon completion.