On April 2, KHANA Programme Managers and Coordinators attended a three-day training course on capacity building of financial management. The course was conducted on April 2-4 at KHANA office in Phnom Penh.
The training , conducted by MANGO and entitled "Practical Financial Management for Programme Managers: Working with Local Partners" aimed at building the confidence and financial skills of programme managers and coordinators to support local partners NGOs in providing cost effective, controlled and accountable project implementation.
Debbie Pitt, a Financial Trainer from the British-based MANGO, said the course is very crucial for the participants to improve their financial management. "It is especially suitable for mangers who need to identify local partners, assess their financial management capacity or monitor their partners' performance," she said.
The training was specially designed for KHANA's needs and represented the first time that programme managers had received finance related training. KHANA is in the process of decentralizing certain financial management responsibilities and expects that this training will play an important role in making its support to 60 NGO partners even more effective.