This issue of The Manager offers financial and program managers (from headquarters to the service delivery level) solid reasons to assess their financial management systems and a method for performing this assessment. It introduces FINMAT, the Financial Management Assessment Tool, a step-by-step process and instrument for rapidly assessing budgeting, accounting, purchasing, and other financial systems. It describes how managers can use their assessment results to develop detailed action plans that can be incorporated into their organization’s annual operational plans. The FINMAT Tool can also be found in this Resources section.
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This publication makes the case for putting people at the center of health systems strengthening. When you examine the management systems that make up the overall health system—leadership and governance, human resources, financial management, health information, supply management, and health service delivery—you will see that none of them can operate without skilled and motivated people.
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This issue of The Manager focuses on designing and improving a package of HIV-related services, using a conceptual framework called the Functional Service Delivery Point. The framework can help managers to identify the characteristics that make HIV-related services functional and to deliver these services with strong community and management support.
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This issue of The e-Manager will help you understand and assess your basic coaching OALFA skills (which stands for Observe, Ask, Listen, give Feedback, and Agree) and give you the tools to expand your role from manager to manager-as-coach.
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