Diploma in Project Finance

Course Overview

The financing and development of critical infrastructure is a complex, risky endeavor involving many disparate stakeholders. This course focuses on the early stage planning, financial structuring and risk assessment of critical infrastructure necessary to set large, long term capital intensive projects up for success.

Course Objectives

This course is meant to equip participants with an overview of Project Finance by taking them through all stages of a Project Finance transaction, so that they can apply the techniques of Project Finance.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, students should be able to;

Apply a structured and systematic approach to financing projects using some of the techniques of Project Finance
Recognize the key characteristics of a robust project and identify the weakest links in the transaction
Use qualitative and quantitative tools and measures to distinguish the key risks
Interpret each of the risks to determine their severity and potential impact on the transaction structure
Appreciate how the mechanisms in the transaction documents operate to protect the creditors and evaluate the protection provided
Build a credit rationale in order to make and substantiate investment decisions

Course content

Bond financing for infrastructure projects
Financial modeling for infrastructure investment
Revenue or demand risk for transportation projects
Infrastructure allocations for institutional investors
Default risk in project finance
Technology risk and project finance
Early stage project development
Project company legal agreements and structuring
Private infrastructure fund management structuring
Infrastructure procurement via public-private partnerships

Training Format:

All materials are made available through our Online Learning Platform
Students should commit approximately 5-6 hours of their time per week

Materials Provided:

Online delivery of curriculum materials, exercises and templates.

Assignments:

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit assignments at the end of every month.

COURSE DURATION: 6 months

REGIONS TARGETED: Global

COURSE FEE: $800

ORGANIZERS: Capacity Africa Institute

LANGUAGE: English only

Kindly confirm your participation with:

Online Training Coordinator

Capacity Africa Institute

info@capacitybuildingonline.com