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NGO supporting women and girls [111]

Pro bono
Kenya

1-3 months

Our partner is working towards the recognition and empowerment of community members, with specific focus towards girls education and women through various development initiatives and working collaboratively with other organisations.

They are supported by a UK based non-profit, who fundraise and oversee operations in close partnership. Together, they have transformed the lives of over 60,000 people in the communities they work, including 20,000 young girls.

The Board and local staff lack the expertise in financial management to implement their agreed Finance Action Plan and attempts to make financial management systems and procedures used across the partnership more compatible have had mixed success to date.

Following the support of an AfID volunteer for a few weeks in 2023, they now require the support of a volunteer (ideally for a longer period) to carry out the following tasks:

  • Reviewing the use of the new templates introduced by the previous volunteer.
  • Conducting a financial capacity assessment of the Board, Finance Committee and staff.
  • Identifying skills gaps and providing financial training to the Board, Finance Committee and staff as required.
  • Reviving the Finance Action Plan.
  • Reviewing and assessing financial procedures including monthly financial reporting, budgeting and actual/variation analysis, expenditure and program cost forecasting and make recommendations to these key financial outputs.
  • Supporting the Board with a review of key governance and policy documents, including the Financial Policy and Procurement Policy.

NGO protecting the human rights and well-being of children [109]

Pro bono
Kenya

3-4 weeks

Our partner educate and empower women and girls to manage their own reproductive health, producing and selling sanitary products, providing key health education, and leading on advocacy and research efforts to enact change.

The organisation conducted a comprehensive research trial on the individual and combined impact of sanitary pads and health education across 140 schools in Kilifi County. The results highlighted many shortcomings. They now run interventions in 5 schools, reaching 3600 students with a health education curriculum and they offer tailored menstrual, sexual and reproductive health and rights education to enhance the voice and agency of adolescent girls. 
 
They want to also enact social change through commercial markets, providing high quality but low cost sanitary products which promote and signpost to clear educational messages, phone-based counselling and text-based health information. They sell in urban market and partner with NGOs to reach beneficiaries in rural locations.

There are two volunteer roles, one centred around revalidating their standard operating procedures and upskilling senior leadership in financial oversight and the second one focused on audit preparation.