This course addresses the following competence(s):
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of communicating with internal and external stakeholders and its role in effecting good governance, including roles and information needs of the various players in national policy-making, public financial management and public sector governance.
Teaching Method: Online instructor-led
Module: Communication
Skill Level: Beginner
This course addresses the following competence(s):
- Describe and discuss in detail the institutional structure and functions of the country’s public sector including central and deconcentrated/decentralised government units, direct government agencies and parastatals corporations and their constitutional and statutory bases
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature and range of public service provision, at the country level, identifying and commenting on the responsible entities, and on the mechanisms for sharing powers and responsibilities for service delivery across the public sector
- Describe the concept of public/private partnerships and the procedures for establishing and dissolving them, and analyse the advantages and disadvantages such partnerships bring to both sectors
- Describe the types of risks incurred in the public sector and explain the process of risk management
- Analyse public sector strategic and operational risks and apply strategies to mitigate these risks
- Evaluate the relationship between risk and returns and how these integrate into service delivery
Teaching Method: Online instructor-led
Module: Performance management
Skill Level: Beginner
This course addresses the following competence:
- Articulate in detail the main underpinning principles and concepts of accounting and demonstrate an understanding of how they apply in practice (IPSAS).
- Teacher: Simon Taylor
Teaching Method: Online instructor-led
Module: Introduction to Taxation
Skill Level: Beginner