Assessing and Building Partners’ Financial Management Capacity

Building the confidence and skills of NGO staff to assess and strengthen local partner NGOs’ financial management systems and capacity.

Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010 - 14:05

Location: Melbourne (Westpac Banking Corporation, 360 Collins Street)

Event Date: 13 May 2010

Organisation: Mango

Link: http://www.mango.org.uk

Contact Phone: +44 (0)1865 423818

Cost: Varied. See website

 This course is designed for staff in international NGOs whose role includes supporting programmes implemented by local partner NGOs and assessing the partners’ capacity to manage project funds.

For those with no previous financial management experience or training it is recommended that they first attend the companion course – FM3UK Financial Management for Effective Programmes: a Programme Officer’s Survival Course – which takes place immediately before the FM9.

The final balance of course content will be decided by those attending the course, according to their interests and training needs. Also see below for the Programme Guide.
The core components of this course include:
• Frameworks and checklists for assessing capacity and analysing financial risk
• Interpreting partners’ financial reports
• Identifying strategies to build on strengths and improve on weaknesses