UK’s Award-Winning Mango Launches Financial Management Training for Australian NGOs

Sydney, 12 April 2010 – Mango, the award-winning UK registered charity which helps aid agencies around the world strengthen their financial management, will launch training in Australia next month for the very first time.

Last year, Mango ran its highly practical financial management training courses for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in humanitarian relief and development in over 40 countries around the world, helping to improve effectiveness and accountability.

Australian NGOs will now have the opportunity to benefit from Mango running two of its most popular courses in Melbourne in May 2010. These include its highly regarded two day Financial Management for Effective Programmes – A Programme Officer’s Survival Course on 11-12 May (FM3) together with its one day course Assessing and Building Partners’ Financial Management Capacity on 13 May (FM9). The training will also now form part of Mango’s pan Asia Pacific training programme and its work with various training partners in the region.

The Melbourne events will be facilitated by Mango’s Training Partnerships Manager, Sara Holloway ACMA. Holloway is an experienced finance manager and trainer, having worked with blue chip commercial organisations in the UK and US and development and humanitarian NGOs in Kenya, India, Uganda, Sri Lanka and across Southern Africa.

Mango works with all the major international agencies, including ActionAid, Care International, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Plan International, the Red Cross, Save the Children, Tearfund, VSO, World Vision and their partners. It also works with a substantial and growing number of local organisations including microfinance organisations.

“Mango training aims to take the fear out of finance. These courses help to build the confidence and skills of NGO staff to use financial management tools to implement project activities effectively and accountably and to assess and strengthen local partners’ financial management systems and capacity. We’re really looking forward to running our courses in Australia,” said Mango’s Training Director, Terry Lewis.

Mango also offers humanitarian relief and development organisations easy and reliable access to high quality pre-screened finance staff with the technical skills, interpersonal competencies and commitment to work effectively with NGOs around the world.

Mango’s Recruitment Director, Lucy Markby commented: “As an NGO committed to providing high quality finance staff for permanent, interim or short term roles and consultancy assignments at affordable rates, we believe we are uniquely placed to assist NGOs with their recruitment needs all over the world.

“For example, we are currently recruiting French speaking accountants to help support Save the Children and other organisations who are committed to rebuilding Haiti in the longer term. We have over 300 accountants on Mango’s register committed to contributing their skills to the sector. There is huge demand for finance professionals within the sector so we are always delighted to hear from accountants keen to work in humanitarian relief and development organisations around the world.”