The 1980s saw many countries in sub-Saharan Africa suffering a severe financial crisis due to an increasing debt burden. Some of the factors that contributed to this debt crisis were a lack of sound debt and financial management techniques and a lack of awareness of the legal procedures of debt and financial management.
All training is conducted in the partner countries through workshops lasting one to ten days.
Hence, the training programmes have had participants from various disciplines from the related ministries in the partner countries. All training events are set up to facilitate discussion, exchange of ideas and experience, practical training and simulation exercises. The workshops are usually led by national and international resource persons who have a breadth and depth of experience in the field of international debt and financial management.