Title: Provincial Financial Management Training
Program
Location: Papua New Guinea
Client: AusAID
Firm: IDP Education Pty Ltd
Services: IDP provides technical
assistance to Papua New Guinea's Department of Finance with a focus
on training and human resource development at national, provincial,
district and local levels.
Completion: 2006
This program focussed on training and institutional
strengthening at the national and sub-national level: delivering
targeted training in public financial management to officials at
national, provincial, district and local levels; providing
mentoring and on-the-job training to provinces; and providing
support for increased accountability in the management of public
finances.
The program delivered targeted training in public financial
management to officials at provincial, district and local levels,
provided mentoring and on-the-job training to provinces, and
provided support for increased accountability in the management of
public finances.
Support was provided to increase the skills and capacity of the
Department of Finance's training branch; and also to the PNG
Institute of Public Administration to contribute to sustainability
in financial management training into the future. The program
supported longer-term human resource development and
capacity-building in the Finance Training Branch and demonstrates
the capacity to work in partnership with a number of PNG
departments, including the Departments of Finance and Treasury and
the Institute of Public Administration (PNGIPA). Local
counterparts were involved in decision-making and increasingly
responsible not only for delivery of training, but also in
monitoring and evaluating the training in addition to designing new
courses.
Strengthening Provincial Internal Audits (SPIA)
SPIA was a separate but related program that
provided support to a wide range of activities designed to
facilitate increased accountability and transparency in the
management of public monies in the provinces. A key feature of SPIA
activities was the opportunity for the key stakeholders, the
Department of Treasury Finance Inspections Division, Department of
Provincial and Local Government Affairs and the Auditor-General’s
Office to work with each other in a collaborative and complementary
approach.
