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Public Policy & Government Transformation5-day executive programUSD $1,999

Financial Intelligence Units & AML for Governments

Run the intelligence loop that finds financial crime.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days Permanent secretaries, directors-general, commissioners, directors, heads of delivery and M&E units, county and state executives, and development-partner leaders.

The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

The programme was launched with a speech, funded with a loan, and designed without asking the only question that matters: what would make financial intelligence units actually change on the ground? The political cost arrives on schedule: an announcement without delivery is a loan taken against the next election. You will trace money to outcomes in the Data Lab, run a delivery review under fire, and leave with a measurement system that resists gaming.

Context

Why this matters now

Every financial intelligence units reform window is shorter than the political cycle that opens it.
Fiscal pressure is structural: rising debt service and shrinking aid budgets demand a different financial intelligence units statecraft.
Lenders and development partners now condition resources on demonstrable financial intelligence units delivery capability.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Navigate the political economy of financial intelligence units reform without abandoning rigour.
  • Commission financial intelligence units evaluation and read it critically — attribution, gaming and all.
  • Build financial intelligence units delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
  • Present financial intelligence units evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.

The IPAT Course Standard

The five-day journey

Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.

IPAT Signature Case™

The Dam at Two-Thirds

A flagship project at a ministry of finance is two-thirds complete when independent review finds the hydrology assumptions optimistic and a cheaper alternative existed. Cancelling embarrasses the government; completing it strains the debt ceiling.

Your decision: Complete, redesign, or pause — and design the public accountability for whichever you choose, financial intelligence units evidence included.

Revised cost-benefit analysisDebt sustainability projectionsTermination exposure schedule

IPAT Data Lab™

The financial intelligence units data at a ministry of finance measures activity; nobody measures delivery.

Dataset: Synthetic administrative and survey data for a ministry of finance — the two sources disagree.

Your task: Reconcile the sources, build the delivery dashboard, and defend it before a faculty "cabinet".

A financial intelligence units delivery dashboard that resists gaming.

Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate

Day 5 · The Capstone

What will you change when you return to work?

Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.

You leave with: Evidence-Based Policy Design and Evaluation Framework

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
  • • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
Established practice you will apply
  • • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
  • • Results-based management
  • • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods

Cohorts

Upcoming cohorts

New dates are being scheduled

Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.

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