About this learning event

This Asset Management Certification program is designed for the first generation of participants. The program is delivered through collaboration with CIPFA and a team of international and regional experts, ensuring the highest quality of training and combination of international guidance and regional context, and it recognizes the importance fixed assets management plays in the effective delivery of public sector services.

The program entails several distinct but related modules, which cover key aspects of public sector asset management delivery with an emphasis on the need to think and act strategically. The training spans over two weeks. The first week of the program took place in November 2025, and the second week of the program will take place in May 2026. More precisely, the second week of the training will include the following 5 modules: Business Case Development and Option Appraisal, Capital Projects and Maintenance, Public sector asset management (PSAM) Additional Topics, Public Sector Specific Assets, and Asset Management today, as follows:

Module 6: Business Case Development and Option Appraisal

- Introduction to option appraisal

- The 5-case business model

- Option Appraisal – The magnificent 7

- Option Appraisal – Exercise

- SEE and EE peculiarities

Module 7: Capital Projects and Maintenance

- Introduction to Capital Projects

- SEE and EE peculiarities to Capital Projects and Maintenance

- Maintenance Basics

- Developing a strategic prioritisation approach to maintenance

Module 8: PSAM Additional Topics (UK and SEE and EE perspectives)

- Whole Life Appraisal

- Leasing of Private Property by Government

- Accountability frameworks, ownership policies & Enforcement mechanisms

- The Role of the Supreme Audit Institution in Managing Public Sector Assets

Module 9: Public Sector Specific Assets

- Infrastructure assets: institutional/organisational/managerial aspects & accounting/financial reporting aspects

- Heritage assets: institutional/organisational/managerial aspects & accounting/financial reporting aspects

- Decoupling of financial reporting and management

- Brownfield investments, urban regeneration and military assets

Module 10: Asset Management today

- Climate Change and Asset management

- Resilient/Sustainable Asset Management

- Property service delivery

- Confiscated assets use for community benefits

- Sharing assets with other public bodies

Faculty

• Gorana Roje, CEF associate fellow, Head of Unit for State Asset Management Strategic Planning Coordination, Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, Croatia
• David Bentley, CIPFA
• Eugenio Anessi Pessina: CEF associate fellow, Full Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Nives Botica Redmayne: Full Professor, School of Accountancy, Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand
• Božo Vuletić Antić, Assistant Auditor General, State Audit Office of Croatia
• Marco Bisogno, Associate Professor in Accounting at the University of Salerno, Italy

Who should attend

This initiative is intended for senior public officials - policy-makers and managers- responsible for PSAM processes or in charge of maintaining asset records and managing asset portfolios, as well as heads of finance and accounting departments and interested officials from Supreme Audit Institutions.

Partners

This learning initiative is supported by: