Public Budget Policy Design and Spending Prioritisation Course

Design credible public budget policy and prioritise spending using fiscal analysis, programme evidence and transparent decision criteria. Enrol today.

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Training Locations

This Public Budget Policy Design and Spending Prioritisation Course is available in multiple cities. Please select your preferred location from the list below

Durrës

Albania

Tirana

Albania

Andorra la Vella

Andorra

Escaldes-Engordany

Andorra

Innsbruck

Austria

Salzburg

Austria

Vienna

Austria

Gomel

Belarus

Minsk

Belarus

Antwerp

Belgium

Brussels

Belgium

Banja Luka

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Plovdiv

Bulgaria

Sofia

Bulgaria

Dubrovnik

Croatia

Split

Croatia

Zagreb

Croatia

Limassol

Cyprus

Nicosia

Cyprus

Brno

Czech Republic

Prague

Czech Republic

Aarhus

Denmark

Copenhagen

Denmark

Tallinn

Estonia

Tartu

Estonia

Helsinki

Finland

Tampere

Finland

Lyon

France

Marseille

France

Nice

France

Paris

France

Berlin

Germany

Frankfurt

Germany

Hamburg

Germany

Munich

Germany

Athens

Greece

Thessaloniki

Greece

Budapest

Hungary

Debrecen

Hungary

Akureyri

Iceland

Reykjavík

Iceland

Cork

Ireland

Dublin

Ireland

Florence

Italy

Milan

Italy

Naples

Italy

Rome

Italy

Pristina

Kosovo

Prizren

Kosovo

Liepāja

Latvia

Riga

Latvia

Schaan

Liechtenstein

Vaduz

Liechtenstein

Kaunas

Lithuania

Vilnius

Lithuania

Esch-sur-Alzette

Luxembourg

Luxembourg City

Luxembourg

St. Julian's

Malta

Valletta

Malta

Bălți

Moldova

Chișinău

Moldova

La Condamine

Monaco

Monte Carlo

Monaco

Budva

Montenegro

Podgorica

Montenegro

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Rotterdam

Netherlands

The Hague

Netherlands

Ohrid

North Macedonia

Skopje

North Macedonia

Bergen

Norway

Oslo

Norway

Gdańsk

Poland

Kraków

Poland

Warsaw

Poland

Faro

Portugal

Lisbon

Portugal

Porto

Portugal

Bucharest

Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

City of San Marino

San Marino

Serravalle

San Marino

Belgrade

Serbia

Novi Sad

Serbia

Singapore

Bratislava

Slovakia

Košice

Slovakia

Bled

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Slovenia

Barcelona

Spain

Madrid

Spain

Valencia

Spain

Gothenburg

Sweden

Stockholm

Sweden

Bern

Switzerland

Geneva

Switzerland

Zurich

Switzerland

Kyiv

Ukraine

Lviv

Ukraine

Odesa

Ukraine

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Birmingham

United Kingdom

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

London

United Kingdom

Manchester

United Kingdom

Rome (Vatican-adjacent)

Vatican City

Training Outlines

Course Introduction

Budget policy design is the discipline of converting strategic commitments into funded, affordable and measurable public programmes. This course equips participants to evaluate fiscal constraints, cost policy choices and direct limited resources toward the highest-priority outcomes.

Course Objectives

Connect fiscal strategy with annual and medium-term budgets
Translate policy commitments into costed programme proposals
Assess baselines, fiscal space and competing expenditure demands
Apply transparent criteria to spending prioritisation
Use spending reviews to identify savings and reallocations
Present evidence-based recommendations to budget decision-makers

Who Should Attend

Budget analysts, policy advisers, programme managers, finance ministry officials, planning officers, economists and public-sector managers involved in policy costing, budget preparation or expenditure prioritisation.

Course Methodology

Participants work through fiscal scenarios, policy-costing exercises, programme appraisal, prioritisation matrices, spending-review cases and a final budget-policy decision simulation.

Day One: Fiscal Strategy and the Policy-Budget Link

Macrofiscal context and aggregate resource constraints
From government strategy to budget policy
Annual budgets and medium-term expenditure frameworks
Baseline expenditure and existing commitments
Defining fiscal space for new priorities

Day Two: Policy Design, Costing and Affordability

Defining objectives, beneficiaries and delivery mechanisms
Estimating recurrent and capital cost implications
Cost drivers, demand assumptions and unit costs
Testing affordability across multiple years
Documenting uncertainty and fiscal risks

Day Three: Spending Prioritisation and Public Value

Criteria for relevance, impact and feasibility
Equity, efficiency and service-delivery considerations
Programme appraisal and value-for-money evidence
Ranking proposals under constrained ceilings
Managing political and institutional trade-offs

Day Four: Spending Reviews and Strategic Reallocation

Purpose and scope of spending reviews
Identifying duplication, leakage and low-value activity
Efficiency savings and programme redesign
Reallocation toward emerging priorities
Managing implementation and stakeholder resistance

Day Five: Defensible Budget Policy Decisions

Integrating fiscal, policy and performance evidence
Preparing options and recommendations for decision-makers
Documenting trade-offs and rejected alternatives
Monitoring funded priorities and expected results
Capstone: spending prioritisation and allocation proposal

Training Schedule

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