In my posts so far I have not made much mention of work but
that will change today.
I am working in the Directorate of Financial Resources of
the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.
The objective of my role, Finance Manager, is to build capacity in
Management Reporting. When I arrived
there was a lack of any type of management report on health sector expenditure as
the historic role of the finance directorate has been to raise payment
vouchers. This is changing however and
my boss is pushing for the directorate to produce more analysis of spending in
the health sector. Seven months in I
have produced reports for the first and second quarters and am starting work on
the third.
As a VSO volunteer I have an aim to build capacity within
the staff of the Ministry. A couple of
weeks ago I had the chance to work on this aim at a workshop held in Bo. This was a workshop to train health finance
officers in the basic requirements of their roles and to introduce them to
Excel so that cashbooks and other books of record can be maintained
electronically.
The workshop was held over three days with finance officers
from all over the country attending.
They work in hospitals, district health management teams and
headquarters. The level of computer
knowledge varied greatly across the group so three days working on the basics
was highly valuable. We had managed to
source a number of computers so the training was actually hands on. The next step shall be to hold smaller follow
up workshops so that everyone has a chance to improve their skills.
Here are some images of the training in action
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