Finance & Accounting

The ''missing middle'' (Kauffmann, 2005)

Everyone,

Anyone with a clue on the entries to pass within an NGO ledger? any guide or manual you could share with me?

This document by Rahel Otieno promotes the finding that the ways in which funding is channeled to communities can be an effective way to address poverty and inequality and empower communities to take

I am looking to network with accountants on developing generic procedures that address the various specific high risk scenarios encountered in field locations.

This article, "Why You Should Care About Records Management", is by Terry Clayton.

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Hi!
OXFAM, today has put Afghanistan at the forefront of its news report as $5 billion (Dollars) worth of aid from the west has still not been delivered.

This is the latest newsletter from AfDevInfo - an online database focusing on key & emerging themes in African politics and development.

http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/newsletter_8.html

New reports this month include a breakdown of African research institutes, a map of budget monitoring initiatives in Africa, and detailed information on 5 new African cabinets.

[weitzenegger.de] September 2007

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Our board have asked us to carry out due diligence of a potential partner organisation in Nakuru, Kenya.

The organisation is quite small but the only quote I've had for the work is from one of the big accounting firms who quoted $40,000 !

In November 2002, the USA Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) issued voluntary guidelines for charities working overseas; revised guidelines were released in September 2006. This past March, OFAC released a Risk Matrix for the Charitable Sector, intended to help charitable organizations that deliver aid in high-risk areas understand and comply with U.S. sanctions programs. The matrix indicates characteristics of low-, medium-, and high-risk situations in 11 categories, including the specificity of a grantee's charitable purposes, the size of the donation, the location of the charitable activity, and the history of the grantee's charitable activities.

A website that aims to help individuals choose a charity to give to, though only charities registered in England:

http://www.intelligentgiving.com

Raises some interesting points about fundraising and transparency, with an enjoyably homourous slant.

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in Practice: a Training Manual

This training manual produced by UNFPA/UNIFEM and authored by Debbie Budlender and Nisreen Alami is aimed at capacity building in the application of gender budget analysis. The manual seeks to build understanding of GRB as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women's rights, and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes. To view the training manual and CD Rom of handouts and annexes:

Mango, a UK registered charity that runs a register of accountants who are prepared to work with relief and development organisations globally, welcomes suitably skilled and qualified finance professionals to join its register.