Overview

As a professional discipline, Development Finance at University of Cape Town is widely practised today across a broad range of organisations and contexts. However, there is a shortage of development finance experts in Africa, where this kind of knowledge is needed most.

Quick Facts:

• Development finance skills can be useful in providing optimum financial outcomes that enhance the design and implementation of reforms and capacity-building programmes adopted by development finance institutions, governments, the private sector and NGOs.
• You don’t need to be working in a development finance institution to benefit from this degree. These skills are also widely used by people in other contexts, including banking and financial services.

Applicants to this programme are typically:

• development finance practitioners
• civil servants
• staff of development finance institutions
• staff of other financial institutions
• entrepreneurs
• staff of NGOs
• employed in the private sector