Finance for humanitarian projects: strategy and management, Erbil, Iraq, 3-7 Oct 2021

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

Our open training courses participants gave them an average score of 3.8/4 in 2020.

By attending this open training 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

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

Profile
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

Prerequisites
All participants are expected to have a:

basic knowledge and/or relevant experience in the humanitarian and the development field
good knowledge in basics of MS Excel, name the following functions: copy and paste, addition and subtraction, division and multiplication, percentage, sum, filters, cells modification
technical: Possess a laptop computer equipped with Excel software (minimum version 2007) and standard office tools (e.g. office pack)