Finance for humanitarian projects: strategy and management, 5-day open course, July 4-8 2022, Beirut

This training course on strategic financial management aims to provide you with the essential knowledge, practices and tools to ensure an effective and efficient financial management of a humanitarian project and funding ressources.

By attending this open course, you will ensure an effective strategic financial management of a humanitarian project. And more specifically, you will know how to:

• Discuss and compare the different funding mechanisms and approaches for fund aquisitions in a local context
• Build and monitor effective budgets according to donor requirements
• Use intermediate MS Excel functions applied to financial analysis
• Understand the requirements to drafting a donor financial report
• Apply key internal control procedures to prepare for a project financial audit

TRAINING COURSE PROGRAMME

• Day 1: Financial Strategy – Key concepts for understanding funding sources and mechanisms
• Day 2: Financial Planning – Humanitarian project budget drafting according to project requirements
• Day 3: Financial Monitoring & Review – Build and analyse a budget spending
• Day 4: Financial Reporting –  Donor financial reporting
• Day 5: Financial Evaluation – Internal control and audit preparation

The training course is designed for staff working in international and local non profit organisations, civil society organisations and institutions, who are involved in project implementation or support services such as:

• non-financial staff who wish to improve their knowledge and skills in financial planning, monitoring and reporting
• support staff including junior to mid level financial personnel interested in developing their financial management skills

You are already familiar with the basic functions of Excel and wish to improve your skills in Excel applied to financial management. You will need a laptop computer equipped with Excel software (minimum version 2007) and standard office tools (e.g. office pack).

More info on this course

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