This certification course is part of a natural resources management path, some of which is produced in collaboration with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). This course includes several distance learning courses:
For certified learners, the path ends with a 5-day face-to-face training course to “Analyze and explore the issues involved in sharing the rent of an extractive project”, organized by the Institute or one of its partners. This session will be in French.
The aim of this training course is to discover the possible uses of rent-sharing models from the point of view of the various actors in the extractive sector. Governments and state-owned companies use them to manage revenues from their natural resources. Financial institutions use them to grant loans. Civil society can use them to evaluate projects and inform public debate.
MODULE No. 1 : Why use a tax model? (45 min) Introduce why a tax model is useful for making decisions, using a personal situation first and then a professional situation.
MODULE No. 2. The use of models by governments and state-owned enterprises (2h) Learn about the many ways governments and state-owned enterprises need a model to make sound decisions about managing natural resource revenues.
MODULE No. 3. The use of models by lenders and civil society (1h) Gain a deeper understanding of how banks and international financial institutions use tax models, how this affects extractive countries, and how civil society institutions can use tax models to increase their knowledge and efficiency.
MODULE No. 4. The importance of data (2h) Understand how the variability and reliability of the input data used in tax models can affect the validity of the results.
MODULE No. 5. Decision Criteria (45 min) Know the different decision criteria for each type of stakeholder and whether they are aligned or not.
Economists, lawyers, tax specialists, tax authorities, ministries of mines and hydrocarbons, other public or private actors of the African extractive sector.
Requirements:
FERDI, on behalf of IHEDD-FERDI and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), delivers a certificate indicating the title of the training and the number of teaching hours.
To receive the certificate for each distance learning course, learners must successfully complete a final evaluation.
Contribution to training costs: 300 €
Scholarships may be available, thanks to the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and French Development Agency (AFD), for public administration executives from developing countries.
• 2025/02/17 - Deadline for applications
• 2025/02/24 - Announcement of selection results
• 2025/03/04 - Deadline for payment of registration fees
• From 2025/03/17 to 2025/04/07 - Distance learning
If you have a disability-related need, please contact our disability advisor: emeline.campagne@ferdi.fr
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