The activities are intended to improve capacities of public officials, with the final goal to empower their reform efforts and, as such, develop effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Accordingly, the present TPA learning program addresses the areas of:

• Managing day-to-day business and development activities
• Managing people
• Developing a knowledge-sharing culture

Program priorities are also grounded in the reform needs of recipient institutions and as such designed in close co-operation with CEF affiliated experts and regional representatives of tax administrations (CEF Coordinators ). The program design reflects also desk research and regular consultations with counterparts from tax administrations and ministries of finance in South East Europe (SEE) and consultations with the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) Revenue Administration Advisor for SEE, Allan Leon Jensen, based at the CEF.

The program is supported by the Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands.