Burkina Faso/Continuing training: 877 Treasury and public accounting officials strengthen their skills

On Wednesday September 3, 2025, the Institut des finances publiques du Burkina (IFPB) hosted an official ceremony to launch ongoing training sessions for staff of the Direction générale du Trésor et de la comptabilité publique (DGTCP).

The initiative, the fruit of close collaboration between the IFPB and the DGTCP, involves 877 agents and will be spread over more than a month through 36 thematic sessions.

Chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance, Abdel-Rachid Soulama, this meeting marks an important step in the implementation of the recommendations of the last Ministerial Sector Management Board (CASEM). It aims to strengthen the technical and professional capabilities of executives in the context of the establishment of the Banque des dépôts du Trésor, officially launched on August 2, 2024.

"This activity is of the utmost importance for our department. At the Ministry's last CASEM, a strong recommendation was made to all the Ministry's structures in terms of capacity building and professional training. The recommendation called for the Institut des finances publiques du Burkina, which trains most of the Ministry's executives, to be used to run its activities. In keeping with the implementation of this recommendation, the Treasury's Public Accounting Department approached the institute to train executives from the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor. And as you will have noticed, this is a series of training courses that will enable us to train over 800 Treasury executives and even other players in the public finance chain who interact with the Treasury on an ongoing basis. It's a vitally important activity, and that's why we were keen, on behalf of the Minister in charge of finance, to support it", explained the Ministry's General Secretary.

According to Seydou Barro, Director of the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor, the creation of the institution has presented the Treasury with new challenges. These challenges call for a reinforcement of staff skills, particularly those of the Banque des Dépôts, on themes adapted to respond effectively to user requests. In his view, these training sessions should enable staff to better equip themselves to meet the current challenges facing the Treasury and, more broadly, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.

For Bruno Bamouni, Director General of the Treasury and Public Accounting, this initiative responds to a need to adapt human resources to the challenges brought about by the Treasury's transformation. "The Banque des Dépôts du Trésor sets modern standards in public finance and banking management. Over and above the infrastructure, it's the men and women who need to be brought up to standard", he declared.

He stressed the importance of ongoing training, which must be a long-term process, to keep pace with every development and innovation within the Treasury.

IFPB Managing Director Barthélémy Dabré explained that the current session marks the deployment of a new dynamic in practical training, geared to the needs of users and the ministry's demand for excellence.

"We are committed to excellence within our institute. And the mission statement that we have sent to all our trainers is quite clear: to ensure that this is practical training that will have a direct impact on customer relations within the bank and financial administration in general. It's really a training course that will focus on practical, professional issues and will have a strong, direct impact. It's important today that, with this new dynamic of reform, we can take into account the interests of users. In fact, this is one of the major orientations of our Ministry today, as the Secretary General of the Ministry reminded us. We have to be at the service of users, both the Institute and the Ministry's central administrations", explained the General Manager.

The 877 employees concerned by this training course come from both the Treasury's structures and the partner entities that interact with it on a daily basis. The courses will cover a wide range of topics, from banking techniques to service quality management, professional ethics, anti-money laundering and customer relations.

Source: lefaso.net/