PMCG Continues Capacity Building in the State Institution

The World Bank contracted PMCG to provide a targeted financial management training program for the Finance Department staff of the Ministry of Internally Displaced People from the Occupied Territories, Refugees and Accommodation of Georgia. The training program is continuation of the preceding technical assistance program provided by PMCG to the finance department within the FORECAST project funded by USAID in June 2010.

Start Date: October 11, 2010
End Date: November 20, 2010
Country: Georgia
Client: Ministry of Internally Displaced People from the Occupied Territories, Refugees and
Accommodation of Georgia
Funder: World Bank

Description of the Training Program
The World Bank administered SPF Grant for the Internally Displaced Person’s Community Development Project implemented by Internally Displaced People Community Development Center, a legal entity under public law, contracted PMCG to provide a targeted financial management training program, aimed at strengthening the financial management capacity of the Finance Department (FD).

The training program will improve the overall finance management system of the Ministry through increasing the capacity of selected key staff of the FD. The goal of this training program is to meet the training needs of the Finance Department staff as identified in the Training Needs Assessment document developed by PMCG experts as one of the deliverables of the previous technical assistance project within the FORECAST program funded by USAID in June 2010. The training program is aimed at developing technical skills of FD staff necessary for keeping financial management and procurement manual continuously updated and in line with the existing FM practices in place at the FD. It will also increase FD staff awareness of the existing accounting and financial reporting methodology, its development history as well as the accounting reform strategy for the decade ahead.

The topics of the training program are as follows:

• Accounting Instruction for Budget-Financed Organizations (Accounting);
• Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001(GFSM-2001);
• Financial Management and Procurement Manual (FMPM).

PMCG will provide the following deliverables:

• Training materials, printout of slides;
• Final report including the recommendations for further strengthening the financial management capacity of trainees.